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Noa Sorele Shares New Single ‘Playlist’
London-based singer-songwriter Noa Sorele is an independent pop artist. After the release of her rock-inspired single ‘Rain’, and self-empowerment pop single ‘Better’, the songstress returns with her heart-wrenching single ‘Playlist’.
‘Playlist’ features piano, drums, electric guitar, violins, cello, and Noa Sorele’s captivating vocals in the pop-ballad, with a genre-blend of alternative-pop, adult-contemporary, and indie-pop which expresses a mix of romance, sadness, and moody vibes in the production.
The song tackles serious subjects like despair, desperation, and the illusory desire to remember someone who has gone through music. Noa Sorele wrote ‘Playlist’ after a devastating breakup. She was so overcome with grief that she couldn’t stop listening to her ex’s playlist in the hopes of discovering hints that he was still thinking about her. She became depressed and wrote a song as a result of this heartbreak. Since then, the song has acquired new significance for her; it is now dedicated to all lovers and families going through heartache and tragic losses.
Speaking of the track, Noa Sorele comments, “‘Playlist’ is about a hopeless romantic going through heartbreak with desperation, grief, and a delusional hope to hang on to someone gone, if only through music.”
Having grown up in several countries, Noa Sorele has been influenced by a wide variety of musical styles, including jazz, rock, indie, and Mediterranean music. Inspired by musicians such as Dennis Lloyd, Stela Cole, and Jessie Reyez, she finds herself drawn to any strong song with engrossing lyrics. She also has this as her own music’s objective. Furthermore, Sorele is playing her own music at a number of locations, including the Camden Canal, The Half Moon Putney, and the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
On November 28, Noa Sorele will be headlining her release gig at The Lucky Pig in central London. The venue is set as a 1920s vintage-style basement bar, with a cozy and intimate feel. This will be an evening of acoustic acts, and the perfect atmosphere for the new pop-ballad, ‘Playlist’ to be showcased, accompanied by an acoustic guitar and keys.
Michele Ducci has unveiled the second single, ‘Woman Like You’, from his forthcoming album and animated film ‘Snail in the Clouds’.
‘Woman Like You’ pairs bright distorted electric guitar with an electronic drumbeat, adding in Ducci’s soulful vocals and a catchy uplifting chorus with Letizia Mandoleisi’s sweet vocal harmonies. A vintage organ pedalboard operated by Ducci simultaneously generates chords, bass and rhythm, like a one-man band. Shane Kennedy (Girl in the Year Above) joins in on guitar. Simon Milner (Is Tropical, Ysing) recorded and produced the track at his 4am Studios in London.
The album and film tell the story of a planet called ‘Snail’, inhabited by hybrids – primarily a mixture between scorpions, snails and humans – who lead a life according to the style of Pythagoras, devoted to music. There is also a cloud man named Agostos, a writer of musical operettas, who together with a talking smoke machine called Doctor Subtilis, begins to kill all hybrids, targeting in particular the hybrid musician Diodoros and his band, in an effort to steal the ark of melodies, an ancient ship that allows the whole planet to survive with music and joy.
The video for the single, created and animated by Ducci and Mandoleisi, delves further into the realm of planet ‘Snail’:
Says Ducci, “The ark of melodies, after various attempts, finally starts to work and fly in the planet Snail, while the shady Doc. Sub. and Agostos, with their platoon of soldiers made of foggy smoke, spy the miracle, planning to steal the ark for their evil and tyrannical purposes.”
About the track, Michele says, “I wrote this song for my love Letizia. Love seen from the mind is the sound we make. Sound is the love of matter.
We used a Technics synthesizer organ from a flea market. I tried to find a mood that was right for the song and I started using the bass of the pedal board together with the synth and the drums, and it was magical to hear the song reveal itself all coming from a single instrument. Leti was singing with me and we recorded everything live in one shot. Then we made Shane do the guitar flight, as if he came out of the window. The idea was to maintain disproportions, guitar thrust and synth drum thinness a la Haroumi Hosono, so as to create an estrangement, but naturally: it’s about how I listen, with close up something that captures me in its nuance as element of a larger orchestra somewhere. I’m glad we decided in the studio with Simon to use the layers of arrangement as the close-ups in the cinema; they look like strange enlargements that perch on parts of a mutated orchestra. I’m happy to come back with this love song at a time when everything seems to opt, even my labor in managing the flows of selfishness that have poured out on me while doing this album, for the sound of war. I’m here happy to be able to say that the sound of love always wins as did for me. Snail in the clouds is one of the most important works in my life and I am glad to start from pure love for this album that is my son.”
The album and full-length film will be released on the 5th of June on Monotreme Records.
Michele and Letizia’s previous musical short film, ‘The Great Book of Nature’, is an official selection for the 2026 Venice Shorts Film Festival.
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