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New music from Bad Bunny & Ñengo Flow, Oliver Tree,  NewJeans, Ava Max, and more!

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Tilt At The Wind No More

The future of new music will be showcased at South By Southwest® 2023. Hear it here first.

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Andrew McMahon Discography

Message in a Hammer

Cash

A Beautiful Machine (feat. Budapest Art Orchestra)

Stars

Skywriting

TALK’N THAT SHIT!

TALK'N THAT SHIT! (Single Version)

Some records just stop you in your tracks. They resonate with you and feel instantly familiar like an old friend, even on the first listen. SOYUZ's third album ‘Force of the Wind’ is one of those records. It holds all the trademarks, beauty, and eccentricities of classic Brazilian recordings, from the 60s and 70s, that we have come to love. Think artists such as Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges, Burnier e Cartier, Arthur Verocai et al. But this record wasn’t made in Brazil and is in fact a brand-new release. 
 
SOYUZ (which translates as 'union') is a creative collective from Minsk, Belarus, led by composer, arranger, and singer, Alex Chumak, multi-instrumentalist, Mikita Arlou, and drummer, Anton Nemahai. SOYUZ's previous albums explored and reimagined the legacy of jazz-oriented, non-English-language pop music of the 20th century. For their third album, there is a stronger focus, and it is influenced by 70s Música popular Brasileira and building bridges from it to present-day Belarus. Alex notes that from the moment he first encountered Brazilian music, he found in it a kind of concentrated emotion that felt as if it were familiar to him from his childhood. This non-verbal emotion and connection between the listener and musician echoes in the music, regardless of understanding of the language the album is recorded in. 
 
‘Force of the Wind’ includes songs sung in Russian and Portuguese as well as instrumental compositions. Its musical palette is both acoustic and electroacoustic: rich warm Rhodes piano, soaring string arrangements, and a controlled drum swagger sounding both relaxed yet super tight. Alongside Alex's sublime vocals, that grace the majority of the tracks, the album features guest performances by multi-talented musician and vocalist Kate NV and rising Brazilian star, Sessa. Alex also recently arranged a number of tracks on Sessa's highly praised 2022 album 'Estrela Acesa'.
 
On the album, the trio is joined by a cast of friends; NY-based musician of Turkish origin percussionist, Cem Mısırlıoğlu, classically trained composer, Simon Hanes, who aided with string arrangements and conducting the string players, Netherlands-based Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, Gabriel Milliet, on flutes. With the collaboration of these friends SOYUZ have created nine songs/suites that are subtle and plenitude and like the best albums, leave you aching for more.  
 
‘Force of the Wind’ is an enigma, Brazilian yet not Brazilian, vintage yet still contemporary, out of sync with modern culture yet completely relevant and necessary.

SOYUZ (СОЮЗ) - Song With No Words (Песня Без Слов)

Built to Last

My take on Sinatra & Jobim - Girl from Ipanema (1967)

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FF Edits - Ipanema (BossaNova Re-Touch)

Lying On The Hood Of Your Car

Dancing’s Done

Du du du du du du
We're just human we're not pretty
At least we're not that on the surface

Ohh we wanna do it
But we should not
It's a kind of dance
Oh no its not

It's gonna do you good
Oh no it won't
Maybe we should try
We really shouldn't

We don't know what we are
We don't know why we are

I don't need no angel
Oh yes you do
Our bodies tied to reason
The way they should

It's only gonna free us
You know you're wrong
We won't be the first ones
It doesn't matter

We don't know what we are
We don't know why we are

We're moving slowly through abandoned places
This is where we end up every time
Why do we come here to abandoned places
Nothing here but dry earth but we keep coming

All we wanna do
Oh no we don't
Then we'll never know
Oh no we won't

We just wanna be here
It's not that easy
But it feels so good
Only for now

We don't know what we are
We don't know why we are

We're moving slowly through abandoned places
This is where we end up every time
Why do we come here to abandoned places
Nothing here but dry earth but we keep coming

Du du du du du
In the things that we have gathered
A collection of the unmade memories

We're moving slowly through abandoned places
This is where we end up every time
Why do we come here to abandoned places
Nothing here but dry earth but we keep coming
Every time we see one another

Abandoned Places

Oliver Tree - Sunshine
Cowboy Tears (Deluxe) out now: https://olivertree.lnk.to/CowboyTearsDeluxeSO
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Lyrics: 
I’ve been searching for my sunshine
She's all I ever need
I’ve been searching for my sunshine
She's all I ever need

I’ve been waiting for my sunshine
I’m sick of waiting for my sunshine
But the clouds are still coming

Bad news, tell me more than that
With your back turned
There’s no way you’re looking back

I’ve been waiting for my sunshine
I’m sick of waiting for my sunshine

She’s all I ever need
She’s all I ever need
She’s all I ever need
She’s all I ever need

I’ve been looking for some sunlight
It’s still too hard to see
I’ve been searching for some sunlight
I lost a part of me

I stopped looking in the sky
The sun shines bright, it’s gonna blind your eyes
Please stop looking in the sky
That sun shines bright, it’s gonna blind your eyes

I’ve been searching for my sunshine
She's all I ever need
I’ve been searching for my sunshine
She's all I ever need

I’ve been waiting for my sunshine
I’m sick of waiting for my sunshine

She’s all I ever need
She’s all I ever need
She’s all I ever need
She’s all I ever need

Connect with Oliver Tree:
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Sunshine

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Lost Files

HTAFL

Gato de Noche

Rêverie

I'll Never Leave

Submarine

Smoke & Ribbons

Crusader

If I

Playing Robots Into Heaven

If You Can Hear Me

She Belongs To Me / Ballad Of A Thin Man

Ballad Of A Thin Man (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)

The Zombies - Time of the Season

The new Danish electronic pop duo Subnesia (Anders Ponsaing & Michael Rune) present their new single, ‘Here With You’ featuring vocalist Baun.

‘Here With You’ →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

On ‘Here With You’ the duo leave behind the downtempo beats for a piece of buttery soul-pop of swooning strings and funky bassline. Vocalist Baun basks in the romance of lazy mornings spent with the perfect person.

With Subnesia, Ponsaing and Rune seek out a direct and melodic sound combining solid electronic beats with acoustic, organic layers. Pop elements mix with a wide
array of influences from hip-hop to jazz, the music taking shape from free-floating singular ideas rather than a central prescript.

The release comes in a run of singles leading up the Subnesia’s debut album, to be
released on Music For Dreams in October.

Connect with Subnesia
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3lxcUQs31PcnvbFTQj5V3V
FB : https://www.facebook.com/subnesiamusic
IG : https://www.instagram.com/subnesiamusic/

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