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Hello, Ervin. Was there a single moment during recording where you felt this album had become something truly special? Weirdly, and sadly, it was when my friend and producer of my last three albums, Aeron Z Jones died. He had finished producing all the tracks and then he was gone! The record shifts between quiet …
Some songs hit different depending on when you find them. I stumbled across “I’m on the Upside” by Vinyl Floor on a grey kind of afternoon and it genuinely shifted something. Not in a big way. Just the way a good song can make the day feel slightly more like yours again. The Copenhagen brothers …
Hello, Cloud. “In My Dream” blurs the line between dreams and reality, what inspired you to explore that emotional space in this song? I had big dreams of achieving great musical success like Nirvana, but in reality, I faced constant setbacks. This song was born from the frustration of repeatedly going back and forth between …
What inspired you to create Brunio’s Mind as an evolving musical project rather than a traditional album? In a world saturated with singles and ephemeral tracks with features just to grow numbers, we are concerned, as bizarre as it may seem, with leaving a timeless legacy. We want something that might beunderstood differently depending on …
What was the inspiration behind Riptide? Coming out of a relationship where you’re both hurting each other, realising that sometimes each of you is pulling the other into rough waters How did you capture the push and pull tension of the song musically? We wrote this high energy single with a mix of big riffs, …
Julia Thomsen has received a nomination for a World Entertainment Award in the Best New Age Song category. Her composition “Romantic Embrace” will compete at the Los Angeles ceremony against artists from various entertainment backgrounds. The piano composer has quietly built an impressive following, with her Spotify streams now exceeding 18 million plays. Her music …
What was the inspiration behind “Верланг”? ‘Верланг’ is the Russian transliteration we chose for the name ‘Verlang’.The song is about a girl I met on my way to a festival in São Paulo. Her name was Paula Verlang. We met and, inspired by her, I decided to write a tribute that captured the mood I …
Vinyl Floor return on January 16th with their latest single “The Swan of Eileen Lake,” a piece that did not quite end the way it began in the best possible sense. What started as songwriter Thomas Charlie Pedersen’s exploration of overwhelming beauty gradually morphed into something more tangled and human. The result is a track …
Norfolk folk singer songwriter Ervin Munir has teamed up with local vocalist Kate Swanson for “Lifeline”, a song about the people who show up exactly when you need them. The track opens with piano, where Swanson’s vocals draw you in straight away. Ervin comes in on the chorus with guitar harmonies and leads that build …
Marsha Swanson’s video “Generational Transmission” was chosen for a unique honor recently, one that moves beyond traditional music or film festival recognition into the realm of using art for healing and professional development. The Tavistock Clinic’s Trauma Clinic, working with South African Psychoanalytic Clinics Johannesburg, selected the piece to be shown at their inaugural conference …