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Made between London, Granada, and Berlin over the course of four years, @aphty_khea's next EP, 'Salt & Copper', takes the shape of a warm, soulful five-tracker via @squareglass.

The record's title track, 'Salt & Copper', tells the story of an emotional sexual encounter by the sea whilst menstruating, and embodies radical self-love, accepting and finding a home in your own body even when society deems it as filthy, unwanted or taboo.

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Premiere: Aphty Khéa 'Salt & Copper'

"Grow" is a first single from our forthcoming EP.
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Grow

Jim Morrison

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Dust

Produced by Chewbeats
Keys by Joel Dawe
Guitar and arrangement by VEDA BLACK
Written by VEDA BLACK & Milly Upton

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The Precious Moments Of Being Present

Beams Of Sunshine In My Palm

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PREMIERE: Daniel Cherney - Beams Of Sunshine In My Palm

Dove Siamo [Instrumental]

Call It Love

Written & Produced by Aphty Khéa

Strings by James Patrick Gavin

Mixed by Alessandro La Barbera

Mastered by Nova Rahman

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Chewbeats ran two hours of laid-back hip-hop and r&b picks on Rhinestone Cowboy. In the bag - Yazmin Lacey, Mild High Club, Demae, and more.

Rhinestone Cowboy w/ Chewbeats - September 2020

Greek electronic producer, singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and DIY visual artist Aphty Khéa, innovatively blends warm, blissful, driving electronica with soulful melodies and captivating vocal harmonies. Using a mixture of chopped, pasted and edited samples, BBC 6 Music supported Aphty, surgically dissects every sound they make including synths, piano, percussion, whilst sampling every single vocal style that exists is their voice.

Lyrically ‘Aphty Khéa’ bears tales of vulnerability with poetic messages, touching on subjects of queer gender identity, social anxiety, death, existentialism, sex, menstruation and radical self love.
Moving between Berlin, London and Athens, Aphty builds a hard-hitting visual sound world, offering through their music videos a glimpse into their imagined sonic dreamland.

With a musical background that spans choir from the age of six, studying classical singing and piano at school, winning junior Eurovision in Greece, then swapping their home country for London at 18 to study contemporary singing and vocals at the ICMP Music Institute, and finally a BA degree in songwriting. Beyond composing, performing and producing their music Aphty, has participated in the radical left scenes of Greece, France and Germany standing in solidarity for dignified living in the LGBTQIA+,  anti capitalist, antiracist, antifascist and antisexist scenes.
Influenced by the likes of Mount Kimbie, Bonobo and her dad’s old Greek CD burns, the half Greek-half British artist and activist builds a hard-hitting sound world that delves into glitchy production and lo-fi samples.




"She hushed the room to awed silence and even at one point appeared to play a Theremin with her head." - MOJO Magazine

"Menacingly spacious and elegantly caustic, it shows there’s yet life in the bassy half-time world." - PopMatters 

"The slinky, electro-trip hop offerings immediately evoke a lush, immersive atmosphere that I quickly found myself lost among." - Howl & Echoes

"Psyched up, trip hoppy, experimental alt RnB that’s kind of like FKA twigs on LSD. Unless of course FKA Twigs is already on LSD, in which case it’s like that but with more LSD and maybe some other trip stuff." - Your Hands Music

"Dark and murky, yet simultaneously intoxicating." - Twistedsoul

"...goes against the current traditionalism in postmodern trip-hop" - Tracker Magazine

"Artfully weaves together keys, samples and her uniquely soulful vocals to create something entirely encapsulating." - Sounddhism

"An amazing blend of soul, glitch hop and psychedelia this girl has got some mystical modern vibes" - Pitchblack

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