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tinvis Unleashes ‘Echo’ Ahead Of Debut Album ‘Texnia’

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1 year ago

March 24, 2025

With their latest single ‘Echo’, tinvis offers a stunning glimpse into the complexities of belonging and displacement. Written during a time of constant travel between California and Texas, ‘Echo’ captures the internal conflict of existing in two places at once—yet feeling connected to neither. Joel Daniel’s evocative songwriting taps into the universal longing for home, while the song’s production creates a sense of vastness that mirrors the emotional landscape of the lyrics. This track is both a personal reflection and a broader commentary on the human condition, making it all the more powerful and relatable.

The song unfolds slowly, building in layers that add both emotional and sonic depth. A hypnotic rhythm section sets the foundation, while lush, atmospheric guitars and delicate piano lines add texture and color. Daniel’s voice is the emotional center of the track, carrying the weight of the song’s themes with a quiet intensity. His delivery feels both intimate and expansive, inviting listeners into his world while also allowing them to project their own experiences onto the song. ‘Echo’ is a masterclass in emotional storytelling through music, capturing the vulnerability and strength that define the human experience.

What sets ‘Echo’ apart is its ability to blend both timeless and contemporary influences. While Tinvis’ sound draws comparisons to the folk legends of Dylan and Young, there’s also a clear nod to modern alt-rock and indie singer-songwriters like Phoebe Bridgers and Wild Pink. Daniel’s songwriting has an effortless way of capturing the melancholy of life’s transitions while still maintaining an undercurrent of hope. The song feels nostalgic, yet fresh, echoing the past while firmly grounded in the present.

The production on ‘Echo’ elevates the song to new heights, with Max Hart’s expert touch guiding the track into something truly transcendent. The collaboration with guitarist Luke Reynolds and drummer Eric Gardner also plays a key role in shaping the song’s sound, adding layers of richness and texture that deepen its emotional resonance. Recorded in Austin, Texas, at Ramble Creek Studio, the track has a warmth and organic quality that makes it feel like a living, breathing entity. Every element of the song contributes to its feeling of movement, both physical and emotional.

‘Echo’ is the second single from Tinvis’ upcoming debut album, Texnia, and it offers a tantalizing taste of what’s to come. With its rich songwriting, atmospheric production, and emotional depth, ‘Echo’ further solidifies Tinvis as one of the most exciting new acts in indie rock. Joel Daniel’s ability to capture the complexity of the human experience in song is remarkable, and with, Texnia, Tinvis is poised to make an even greater impact. ’Echo’ is a reflection of Daniel’s personal journey, and in it, we hear a voice that is uniquely his own—honest, vulnerable, and brimming with potential.

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Michele Ducci teases new album with uplifting indie single ‘Woman Like You’

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20 hours ago

April 17, 2026

Don Reed

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 5^th 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.