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Anna Justen
“It's young Anna's dream to not have that turmoil but through the lens of this innocent viewpoint of a cat who, regardless of the screaming and the pain and the fear, was still a loyal creature always and loved purely despite the pain and the violence. Basically that's the concept of the album; it's his dream metaphorically.”
Read Above: Anna Justen, the Seattle-born singer-songwriter, has been carving out her own artistic path in Montreal for the past few years, and, with the recent release of her debut album, MiCHOU’S DREAM, has burst fully onto the scene as a dynamic, introspective, and sonically intriguing young artist.
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Rhys Langston, the literary-minded, enigmatic abstract rapper from Los Angeles, has been calibrating his pen and creative approach since he was a child, but, since his full-faced discovery of music as a creative outlet as an adult, has become one of the most intriguing rappers on the scene.
Rhys Langston
“On the clock”- The Making of 3rd shift documentary
2024, Directed by Ryan Heinz
In compliment to their recent album, “3rd Shift”, veteran rappers Squadda B and JUS have released a documentary compiling footage of their months of writing and recording. Made in summertime Detroit, the album is, in part, based on the grind mentality of the Motor City. With beats by Squadda and flows by JUS, Fat Ray, and more, it has been one of the must-listens of 2024.
Normally based in Oakland, Squadda says that traveling repeatedly to Detroit in order to make the album was “Definitely needed. You’ve got to kind of get out of your comfort zone a little bit, and I'm very comfortable in Detroit. But still… you're not at home. You're not near your bed.”
Watch the documentary now to see how the two artists push each other out of their comfort zones in order to create a gem of a project.
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10 Questions w/ odelet
Odelet, the Detroit-born producer and multi-instrumentalist, has been experimenting between genres for multiple years now, and, with the release of their newest album, Angels (Revived), the experiment has reached new heights.
A dynamic blend of soul, funk, jazz, reggae, and other musical roots, the album encapsulates perfectly the genre-agnosticism that permeates Odelet’s creative output.
Currently based on the West Coast, their work in visual art has slowly become intertwined with their musical ventures, and the ultimate result, which is in part represented in Angels (Revived), has blossomed into a transformation of their creative process and manifestation of sound.
Artist profiles
Nik Dandelion, the German-born and Barcelona-based indie artist, has been imbibed with a profound sense of acoustic rawness and sonic interplay since the earliest roots of his creative formation, and, since he has forged out a path as a solo artist in the past few years, has found himself with more and more of a passion for experimentation, crafting simultaneously sublime and haunting tracks that exist in a sort of subliminally curious plane of sound.
Nik Dandelion
E.R. Visit, the solo artistic project of ½ of @ Stone Filipczak, represents a fresh effort, and an ever-growing archive, of the sonic experimentations and yearnings of its creator, repurposing songs that have fallen out of the band’s creative flow into their own entities, and, as he works toward his first album under this new alias, Filipczak has gotten the opportunity to expand the acoustic songwriting roots that led him to fall in love with this creative process in the first place.
E.R. Visit
ASh the author
Ash the Author, the Chicago-born, lyrically and melodically-inclined rapper, has known his calling since he was just a teenager experimenting with a free DAW, and now, as he has matured both personally and artistically, he is ready to settle into his full creative form, flexing the prowess he has gained from years and years of dedication to his craft.