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Erick Macek Releases “I’m Here” on May 29 2026
Releasing during Mental Health Awareness Month, the single offers a message of presence and hope for those navigating life’s most difficult seasons.
A Song of Hope Inspired by Love, Struggle, and Mental Health Awareness
Singer-songwriter and creative director Erick Macek announces the release of his new single, “I’m Here,” arriving May 29, 2026. Written during a deeply personal season, the song is rooted in witnessing loved ones navigate mental health struggles, and choosing to remain present in the midst of it.
Originally inspired by watching his wife endure her own challenges in the face of profound change and loss, “I’m Here” became an expression of unwavering support, a message of presence when words fall short.
“I wrote this song for my wife,” says Macek. “There were moments where I didn’t have the right words, but I wanted her to know she wasn’t alone. Sometimes just being there is everything.”
At the same time, those close to Macek were facing their own mental health battles, revisiting childhood trauma that brought a deeper emotional weight to the writing process. These parallel experiences gave the song a broader resonance, one that extends beyond a single moment or relationship.
In many ways, “I’m Here” also became a quiet foreshadowing of struggles Macek would later confront in his own life.

“Looking back, I didn’t realize how much of this song I would eventually have to live myself. It became more than something I wrote. It became something I had to understand.”
Despite its heavy origins, “I’m Here” ultimately stands as a message of hope. Released during Mental Health Awareness Month, the song aims to encourage those facing depression, trauma, or emotional hardship, reminding them that presence, connection, and support can be powerful anchors in difficult seasons.
“This isn’t a song about having it all figured out,” Macek shares. “It’s about showing up for the people you love, and for yourself, even when it’s hard.”
Known for his cinematic storytelling and emotionally grounded songwriting, Macek brings a multifaceted creative background to his music. A former contestant on NBC’s The Voice (Season 2), he has shared the stage with artists including Jason Mraz, Gavin DeGraw, and The Beach Boys. His music has also been featured in television shows such as 90210 and Melrose Place.
Now in a new season of life as a husband and father of twins, Macek’s work continues to evolve, blending vulnerability, faith, and real-life experience into music that resonates on a deeper level.
“I’m Here” will be available on all major streaming platforms on May 29, 2026.
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Nick Mulvey releases live album ‘Dark Harvest Live’
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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