London-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Waz-u returns with his second album, Preludes: Dusk Psalms, set for release on 16 May 2025 via independent label Biodiversity. The 15-track record further refines the artistic depth of his debut, blending electronic textures and classical compositional techniques in an intricate, immersive listening experience.

Ahead of the album release, Waz-u is dropping an exclusive vocal version of ‘Vermillion: G Major’ from the album, accompanied by its original instrumental version. ‘Vermillion’ with Lilyg will be released on 18 April 2025, evoking intimate indie-folk and pop and follows the release of a vocal version of ‘Lament’ with Tom Norrington. ‘The singles are a way to give a voice to the atmosphere of the record and to lyrically encapsulate some of the themes explored,’ explains Waz-u. ‘Lily and Tom are good friends of mine and have both been listening to early iterations of these preludes – it felt right to involve them directly on this record.’

‘Preludes: Dusk Psalms’ marks a new branch of Waz-u’s emerging sound, guided by the duality of tradition and innovation. Combining his musical roots in early ‘90s dub techno and classical music, the album weaves carefully layered synthesizers and electronics to evoke the ambience of sacred music — from the gentle timbres of a choir or an organ to the quiet, open, and reverberating spaces of a church. Also featured throughout the album is experimental musician G9 LUV, who creates textures and drones by bowing his bass guitar, resulting in cello-like sounds. The release follows Waz-u’s 2024 debut LP, Prayer For Dawn, which merged dub, techno, and electronica in an exploration of the ritualistic traditions associated with both organized religion and dance.

Bringing the album’s themes to life, Waz-u will celebrate the release of Preludes: Dusk Psalms with a special performance at Our Holy Redeemer in Clerkenwell, London on 14 May 2025. Set against the church’s resonant acoustics, the event will feature live performance arrangements, including a choir, with further details to be announced soon.

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Watch official video for “Bang Bang” here: https://youtu.be/r0IhjqQgnfM?si=dGxXCDuI3oaeas_t

A return to classic mix-tape format Mr. 31 Vol 3 will be composed of Gasol spitting over some of his favorite beats and Hosted by legends in the game DJ Big Mike The Ruler and DJ Kasa.  Another video from the project “Return Of The Threat Freestyle” (filmed by @Ryank as part of his Case Files video series) recently dropped (link below).

Watch official video for “Return Of The Threat Freestyle”: https://youtu.be/uZFxGmOKZhw?si=TUifaLiVSbX6caje

Mr.31: Volume 3 (The Threat Tape)will drop on May 26^th and will act as a build-up to his next LP You Not Like That (to drop in July).

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Former ‘The Voice’ finalist and renowned TV sync music writer LLOREN releases her next single ‘LA LA Love’ on 11^th April. The track is a slow-burning poignant pop song that is wrapped in a gorgeous atmospheric production and feels like all the best romantic film moments washing over the listener in a tide of beautiful reflection.

“I was really inspired by Lana Del Rey on this one—her ability to paint a romanticised picture of her relationships while also seeming to ask bigger questions, at least in my experience”, says LLOREN. “La La Love is a fictional story that plays with elements of truth, based on my time in L.A. I wanted to lean into that classic Hollywood romance on the surface while also addressing the more sinister side of having big aspirations. It’s easy to be taken in when someone promises to make all your dreams come true. There are plenty of devils in the City of Angels.”

Hit TV show The Traitors, Grey’s Anatomy, The L Word, 1923, Wish, The Company You Keep, Made In Chelsea, Love Island UK and Love Island USA are just some of the many sync credits LLOREN has amassed to date, which have steadily proved her rich, multi-faceted vocal and powerful contemporary inspired compositions to be a cut above the rest.

‘LA LA Love’ is another superb new example of this high quality in LLOREN’s work and another taster of her hugely anticipated forthcoming debut album ‘It’s Always Sunny in LA’. Tracks from the record have already picked up airplay from BBC Radio 2’s Angela Griffin and Radio X’s John Kennedy and press acclaim from prestigious music tastemakers The Line Of Best Fit, as momentum continues to build. LLOREN’s video for her track ‘Like This’ also won a Telly Award in the US, as well as also being nominated for a prestigious Leo Award in Canada.

LLOREN appeared at The Gibson Garage All Day Festival in London earlier this year and has also recently opened for American artist Fleurie on her European tour. During that tour, she also caught the eyes of promoters who invited her back to open for household names Johannes Oerding and Michael Patrick Kelly and an audience of 10000 people. In the UK, LLOREN is no stranger to the annual PRIDE celebrations having played both Manchester and London where she headlined the women’s stage and has entertained crowds over 10000. She has also toured with Canadian artist Mauvey with whom she collaborated with on the track ‘Pillow’, performing it at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend as well as the Isle Of Wight Festival 2023.

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The song takes us on a cross-continental journey, musically and emotionally. From its bossa nova rhythms and Spanish guitar to the hypnotic jazz piano and floating flutes, the soundscape carries the weight of shared heritage and fragile longing. Babé Sila explains how the melody’s legacy, heard across Arabic, Persian, Hebrew and Andalusian households, mirrors her own experience of loving across cultures and identities. “As someone with ties to parts of this heritage, in love with someone who shares parts of it too, I felt an instinctive pull towards it… It carries a legacy that has connected communities for generations—just as it connected us, despite our different backgrounds. It’s a shared melody that could act as a reminder how music and culture can build bridges, bringing us back to the common human experiences we all share” she says, and it shows.

Familiar yet foreign, delicate & magnetic, Forever (Bhebbak) feels like a delicious memory you haven’t lived yet. Succeeding to Summer Sings, it continues to introduce us to Babé Sila’s upcoming EP, I Told The Sun About You, dropping June 20. If this single is any indication, the project promises to be an intimate exploration of love in all its emotional complexity.

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Former ‘The Voice’ finalist and renowned TV sync music writer LLOREN releases her next single ‘LA LA Love’ on 11^th April. The track is a slow-burning poignant pop song that is wrapped in a gorgeous atmospheric production and feels like all the best romantic film moments washing over the listener in a tide of beautiful reflection.

“I was really inspired by Lana Del Rey on this one—her ability to paint a romanticised picture of her relationships while also seeming to ask bigger questions, at least in my experience”, says LLOREN. “La La Love is a fictional story that plays with elements of truth, based on my time in L.A. I wanted to lean into that classic Hollywood romance on the surface while also addressing the more sinister side of having big aspirations. It’s easy to be taken in when someone promises to make all your dreams come true. There are plenty of devils in the City of Angels.”

Hit TV show The Traitors, Grey’s Anatomy, The L Word, 1923, Wish, The Company You Keep, Made In Chelsea, Love Island UK and Love Island USA are just some of the many sync credits LLOREN has amassed to date, which have steadily proved her rich, multi-faceted vocal and powerful contemporary inspired compositions to be a cut above the rest.

‘LA LA Love’ is another superb new example of this high quality in LLOREN’s work and another taster of her hugely anticipated forthcoming debut album ‘It’s Always Sunny in LA’. Tracks from the record have already picked up airplay from BBC Radio 2’s Angela Griffin and Radio X’s John Kennedy and press acclaim from prestigious music tastemakers The Line Of Best Fit, as momentum continues to build. LLOREN’s video for her track ‘Like This’ also won a Telly Award in the US, as well as also being nominated for a prestigious Leo Award in Canada.

LLOREN appeared at The Gibson Garage All Day Festival in London earlier this year and has also recently opened for American artist Fleurie on her European tour. During that tour, she also caught the eyes of promoters who invited her back to open for household names Johannes Oerding and Michael Patrick Kelly and an audience of 10000 people. In the UK, LLOREN is no stranger to the annual PRIDE celebrations having played both Manchester and London where she headlined the women’s stage and has entertained crowds over 10000. She has also toured with Canadian artist Mauvey with whom she collaborated with on the track ‘Pillow’, performing it at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend as well as the Isle Of Wight Festival 2023.

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Ledher Blue’s new album ‘Fait Divers’ came from an existential crisis. Admittedly, it was shameful to accept that the most generic of internal conflicts were at hand: the “what’s the purpose of life?”s and the “why am I here?”s out of every self-help book seemed adequate, but needed to be articulated in a particular way. What was the purpose of my life until now; “Why am I here?” Zé from Ledher Blue thought as he got into Dublin.

Ledher Blue are the product of two distinctively different individuals that the waves of life comically decided to beach in a northern town of Portugal – Guimarães. The city is known for its historical meaning in the birth of Portugal, for its nasty hooligans, for its emigrant parvenus, its domestic parvenus, its humble proletariat, its shame, envy, resignation and most importantly a mystical ability of seeing the depressed times – which have long been in the region – united in empathetic jealousy, certain that betters days are coming. The club keeps losing but we’ll be champions, the people are poor but we’ll get better, everything may be bad but he will rise in a foggy sunrise.

Zé and Pedro, the pair behind Ledher Blue, encapsulated the diversity of the town in an existential way. One was always happy, one was always longing, one found a girl, the other found the one, one flourished, the other stagnated when one fell in love with the bars and was now bored the other said, “don’t gamble your life for a couple of poems”, but impressively they would always converge from different perspectives to the same idea. Certainly, one loved Illiad for Aquiles and the other for Hector, one for Vronski another for Levin, one for Grey the other for Vane, one for Liam another for Noel… what matters is that instinctively – or “zoroastrianly” – the pure meaning for their message was not what each wanted to say but the product of the pressure. This conflict was in their youth the birth of friendship and in their slope the birth of the band.

That is why one can say that one song looks happy with mournful feel, or rebellious with fearful grooves; it can be satirical in lyricism and classical in structure, it tries to be a singular unitarian message independent of the peripheral chatter. It’s alternative sometimes, post punk in the others, even poppy on some choruses, but most importantly it always feels original and unique.

Zé’s move to Dublin meant a big separation for the friends and bandmates, but most importantly brought a new perspective for their old problem. The problematic youth from Guimarães, their problematic youth, was not unique to the land. It could be observed on the Irish town. The lifeless eyes, the change dribbling in an oversized pocket, the fortuity misfortune, the keys in the bathroom, a generation sprayed with anxiety and embalmed in panic. It was paralysing. The song forcefully quieted on the lips of a dead philosopher was slivering to the bones of our time. It was as if everybody – even unconsciously – believed that regret was the only certainty of existence; that unescapable longing for the unlived life. And as the uniqueness of our situation dissolved, as our small town became countries, we found new binoculars, not only to inspect reality but most importantly our own. Transcendentally, we found our true selves, which we may have seen before, but were now so overwhelmed to the point of acceptance. As theory imprisoned and pressured reality, the only answer was King Sebastian. The individual who could look down at Narcissus smugly and was able to curse an whole nation was mystified as the long awaited saviour. Sebastian may have lead Portugal to the abyss when he disappeared in the desert but with it created a myth; the myth that he would return in a foggy morning and save us all. Hope. This hope was what united our town. What united the past generations from this existential dread and what would cure our generation. Sebastianism was the cure, it was clear.

“Not only the message was so clear it seemed to dazzle but also the universe, the habitat of each song was drawn.”, says Ledher Blue. “We felt rain during ‘Dublinesque’, the popped dark smoke from old cars for ‘Sorrows of the Amended Hearts’, the lady on the bus in ‘Craic’, the winey red out of a absolutist cape emerged on ‘Èlan’ with libertarian scarlet blues and shadowy greens, we heard the people talking in the pubs of ‘Fun’, we could distinguish the whiteness of their teeth; it stopped being a group of songs and became something else. Complete. Portugality embroiled in Irish thread. A message for all but about none, a concept for the unknown based on the past, a tale without morals.”

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Stream Acoustic Shadows / Purchase physicals: https://bsr.ffm.to/acoustic shadows

A dense album meshing PERRY’s ability to scour endless vinyl crates to pull and bend shards of sound to his well and an array of the best lyricists out of North America today.  Collaborators include Casual, Daniel Son, Estee Nack, Al Divino, Raz Fresco, Ill Bill, Goretex, Hus Kingpin, Crimeapple, Planet Asia, Da Flyy Hooligan, Izrell, P-Dirt, J-Spliff and cuts from DJ Eclipse.

Along with the album drop is in new video, “Welcome To Hell” featuring P-Dirt, Ill Bill and DJ Eclipse.  

Watch official video for “Welcome To Hell”: https://youtu.be/l-Nx2cjwMss

Two other singles from the album were previously leaked including “83 Canadian Hollow Tips” featuring Daniel Son, Raz Fresco and P-Dirtand “White Crown Pt. II”featuring Casual, Planet AsiaandDJ Eclipse (links below).  

Watch official video for “83 Canadian Hollow Tips”: https://youtu.be/4eG7tPt_dSE

Stream “White Crown Pt. II”: https://bsr.ffm.to/wcp2

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Watch official video for “100” here: https://youtu.be/OHALfIpRwMw

Painted In Hunger will be B.A. Badd’s first non-single since 2020’s Really HIM EP (with producer Reallyhiiim) and 2019’s Everybody Eats LP (which featured appearances from Conway The Machine, Rome Streetz and RIM among others).  On the live circuit he has been keeping busy appearing on Jae Skeese’s Ground Level 2025 national tour.

Speaking on the new project the emcee revealed “there’s a lot of growth from my last project to this one.  My other projects were very grimy and hard-hitting.  I’ve grown as a man since then, experiencing fatherhood so this is probably my most personal work.  I tackle subjects including race, family, betrayal and love.” 

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Acclaimed recording artist, songwriter, and filmmaker Sandra Sutter returns with a deeply personal and emotionally resonant new single, “Sunshine Child,” out now on all major streaming platforms. The track is a moving reflection on the universal challenge of watching a beloved young person grow, change, and begin their own journey toward independence.

Inspired in part by a friend’s bittersweet experience of their child growing up and moving beyond the protective reach of their parent, “Sunshine Child” is a beautifully crafted song that captures both the vulnerability and strength of unconditional love.

“It’s a song about the fierce love we have for children in our lives—how we want to shelter them, protect them, hold on,” says Sutter. “But ultimately, we have to let them go, to make their own mistakes, to live their own lives. It’s about learning to love selflessly and trusting the process.”

In a swirl of poetic imagery, Sutter envisions the parent-child bond like a dancer—dressed in every color of the rainbow—spinning in circles, sometimes lost to each other, but always tied together by the invisible thread of love. The song serves as both a gentle caution to overprotective adults and a warm reminder to young people to care for themselves and recognize the light they carry within.

“Sunshine Child” follows Sutter’s extensive and award-winning career in music, film, and poetry. A proud Métis woman, Sandra’s work spans genres and artistic disciplines, often focusing on themes of truth, reconciliation, and cultural empowerment. Her critically acclaimed projects include the 2022 short film A Woman’s Voice, which received over 40 festival selections and 27 awards, and the reconciliation-themed albums Cluster Stars and Aurora: 12 Songs for the Season.

Sandra’s voice and songwriting have earned her numerous accolades including:

Best Folk & Best Spiritual, Indigenous Superstars Music Awards (2022)

Best Métis Artist/Group of the Year, Summer Solstice Indigenous Music Awards (2021)

Best Americana Recording, Native American Music Awards (2018)

Now back on the road with music partner Rob Ing and her band JuSTuS, Sandra is preparing to release her anticipated Indigi-folk jazz fusion album Shadow Stories this summer. “Sunshine Child” offers an early glimpse into the emotional depth and artistry audiences can expect from the new record.

“This song is a love letter to every child, a reminder that they are beautiful, magical, and deeply loved,” says Sutter. “May they always feel the warmth of the love that surrounds them, even as they step into their own future.”

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There’s something undeniably calming about the way the track is constructed. The production is rich, yet restrained. Synth layers shimmer gently under acoustic flourishes, while SEVVEN’s vocals rise and fall with a kind of emotional intelligence that feels instinctual. There’s no rush, no urgency—only presence.

Lyrically, ‘Moments’ is deceptively simple. It speaks to the truth we all know but rarely act on: that time is finite. SEVVEN doesn’t need elaborate metaphors to get this across. Instead, his phrasing feels purposeful, his voice a vessel for sincerity. It’s not about grand performances—it’s about real connection.

As part of RADA Unearthed Volume Three, ‘Moments’ also serves a larger purpose. It’s a song with a soul, but also with a mission. SEVVEN’s long-standing relationship with RADA lends an extra layer of authenticity to the release. This isn’t just art for art’s sake—it’s art for awareness, and maybe even healing.

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