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AZSH Releases Afro House-Inspired Single “Endless Summer” June 5, 2026

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Beatport-Exclusive DJ Pack Drops May 22 | Produced by Grammy-Winning Luis “TheDro1dz” Salazar | Swahili Chant Anchors a Five-Year Story of Becoming

Independent Miami-based pop artist AZSH (pronounced “Ash” / Ashley C. Arkels) releases Endless Summer, the closing track and emotional culmination of her self-titled debut album, as a single on June 5, 2026 — an afro house-inspired dance pop record produced by Grammy-winning, multi-platinum producer Luis “The Dro1dz” Salazar.

Written by AZSH to mark five years of independent becoming, Endless Summer is a celebration of unity and growth, anchored by a Swahili chant — “Nia moja” (one purpose) — that powers the chorus. The track lands as both a standalone single and the thesis statement of the album it closes: every season of the AZSH catalog has been building toward this moment.

“Endless Summer is a song for celebration and movement. I’m personally celebrating a season of becoming which I’ve told through my songs on the AZSH album. I believe we’re always in a season of becoming and that requires a lot of persistence and dedication,” says AZSH.

A Beatport-Exclusive DJ Rollout

A complete Endless Summer DJ pack — including the radio edit and extended mix — drops exclusively on Beatport on May 22, 2026, two weeks ahead of the official single release. The pack expands to all other DJ platforms on June 5 alongside the single’s public DSP release. The extended mix (3:50), which appears as the closing track on the AZSH album, is the version optimized for dancefloors and afro house sets.

Grammy-Winning Production

Endless Summer is produced and mixed by Luis “The Dro1dz” Salazar — the Miami-based, Grammy-winning multi-platinum producer/songwriter (member of production teams The Dro1dz and The Swaggernautz) whose credits include Sebastian Yatra, Maluma, Anitta, CNCO, Farruko, Chayanne, and Wisin, with a Latin Billboard #1 (“Ya Quiero” — Domino Saints) to his name. Endless Summer marks the afro house arrival point of AZSH’s “Miami Pop” sound — a body-moving blend of dance pop with afro house, soulful house, big room, and tropical house textures.

Music Video

The official Endless Summer music video is in post-production for a late June 2026 premiere.

The Single in the Context of the Album

Endless Summer closes AZSH’s 12-track self-titled debut album, released the same day. The album reframes eleven singles released between 2021 and 2026 into a single transformational arc — culminating in the previously unreleased Endless Summer (Extended). The tagline “Every song was a season. Every season was building toward Endless Summer” captures the central premise of both the single and the album it crowns.

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Nick Mulvey releases live album ‘Dark Harvest Live’

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There’s something quietly radical about Nick Mulvey. His songs don’t shout for attention, yet they demand it. His music has always felt like a slow-burning invitation, to listen more closely, to step outside the noise, to feel, even when it’s hard. In a world brimming with distraction he cuts through, offering something rare: music that is unafraid to go deep.

With his most recent albums, ‘Dark Harvest Pt.1’ and ‘Dark Harvest Pt.2’, released via his own Supernatural Records label, Mulvey finds himself in a new state of artistic independence and empowerment. The albums saw Mulvey working alongside a cast of world-class collaborators, including the legendary producer Jimmy Hogarth (Amy Winehouse, Paolo Nutini), the boundary-pushing Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins), and the globally renowned Parisi Brothers (Ed Sheeran, Fred Again) and were born out of the catharsis of a tough few years that Mulvey has undergone recently in his personal life.

For me Dark Harvest Pt.1 tracks the descent and grief that hit me in the last three years, during the losses and challenges I faced”, Mulvey explains. “Often brutal, these years have tenderised me, as I know they have others. Making this music carried me through. Dark Harvest Pt.2 is the first fruits after a deep winter, songs that tell of a new creation and a clarified faith”, he further reveals.

The next phase of this process is ‘Dark Harvest Live’, a gorgeous live offering. The album captures what anyone who has seen Nick Mulvey live will recognise, the feeling of a room that has briefly, genuinely, become one thing. With his ability to weave an experience that is felt as much as it is heard, his live performances don’t just entertain, they transcend to create a chorus of unity, a communion of sound and feeling. Through his intricate guitar figures, that seem to spiral endlessly and serve as a vehicle for his words, few artists so seamlessly bridge the sacred and the everyday.

“Dark Harvest is about surrender and what grows after the breaking. These live recordings are that same journey, only with an audience in the room sharing it. I’m proud of these shows. Something was working and I wanted there to be a recording of it. I’m feeling fortunate that I get to go out in May and do it all over again“, says Mulvey.

Mulvey’s music carries the poetic weight of Leonard Cohen, the introspective fragility of Nick Drake, and the hypnotic, polyrhythmic pulse of West African guitar masters like Ali Farka Touré. From his early days studying ethnomusicology in London, to guitar in Havana and then onto co-founding the Mercury-nominated Portico Quartet, Mulvey’s journey has never been conventional. His shimmering debut solo album, ‘First Mind’ (2014), established him as a standout force in modern music—earning him a second Mercury Prize nomination and acclaim for his hypnotic, finger-picked guitar work and deeply poetic lyricism. His follow-up, ‘Wake Up Now’ (2017), expanded his sonic and thematic scope, weaving global rhythms, environmental consciousness, and a call for collective awakening into anthems of hope and action. With ‘New Mythology’ (2022), Mulvey delved further still into the spiritual and mythic dimensions of songcraft, delivering compositions that felt at once ancient and urgent, intimate and universal.

Onstage Nick’s journey has taken him from sell out European and US solo tours to The Pyramid stage at Glastonbury and London’s The Royal Albert Hall and Hammersmith Apollo. Offstage, Mulvey is a devoted father of two, recently returned to the UK after years living abroad, and quietly in the middle of one of the most creatively fertile periods of his life.

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