Toki (feat. Brandonlee Cierley)

Alien

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Mr Bongo proudly announces the first single from Don Glori’s forthcoming third album ‘Paper Can’t Wrap Fire’. The cornerstone of the LP, 'Brown Eyes' is a joyous soul-jazz groover featuring the captivating lead male vocals of fellow Melbourne/Naarm local, ML Hall. On first listen you’d be mistaken for thinking this is a straight-up love song. Yet underneath its uplifting soulful flavours and sultry vocals, lies a deeper topic at play.

‘Brown Eyes’ discusses the comfort of seeking and finding your community when you had previously felt like an outsider. As Don mentions, “This song is about feeling 'othered' in a predominantly white society like Australia. The first verse is about being tokenised/tolerated and having to stake your claim to a place at the table. The second verse and hook are about finding people who have a shared history with you and feeling at ease around them. When you meet another person like that, and you don’t have to explain all the above, it’s a comforting feeling.” 

“It was the first song I wrote start to finish for the record, starting with the opening riff on the piano. I was taking a lot of cues from Jordan Rakei’s cover of Donald Byrd’s ‘Wind Parade’, as well as throwing in a nod to The Doobie Brothers inserting hooks where they shouldn’t be.”

The result is an empowering hit of jazz-injected soul, nourished by a funk flavour. A track that ebbs and flows between sections of sweeping tenderness and head-nodding, bassline-heavy grooves. Crisp swung drums, masterful keys and those honeyed vocals from Hall, backed with lush harmonies from Ruby Dargaville, Isadora Lauritz, and Bianca Kyriacou, combine to send you cruising out across the horizon.


Don Glori - Brown Eyes (Ft. ML Hall)

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Unwind (feat. Melanie Charles)

Dim Down

Butter (Extended Version)

The Girl I Want

Lucentra is a drift through radiant haze, analog memories refracted in vaporous light.

A slow-burning synthscape crafted with warm Arturia pigments, layered tape textures, and reverb tails that dissolve into silence. The piece unfolds at ~72 BPM, capturing a cinematic ambient tension built on simplicity.

Production Notes:

DAW: Ableton Live 11
Synths: Arturia Pigments, Juno-106 emu
FX Chain: J37 Tape → Valhalla Shimmer → Pro-Q3 EQ → LA-2A emu
Mastering: FabFilter Pro-L2 with a subtle 16kHz sheen

The sonic aura leans into retro-futurism and dreamlike minimalism, making this an ideal piece for late-night introspection, neon-scorched solitude, and headphone reveries.

Released via Aurora Melt Collective.

LUCENTRA

TRAFFIC – born from the chaos of the concrete jungle.
The rush, the noise, the endless flow – up, down, over, through.
Engines, horns, footsteps, voices – all colliding into a restless rhythm.
This is the sound of the city moving.

TRAFFIC

https://ffm.to/loveyoumore-edit

'Love You More [edit]' is taken from the forthcoming album: Nathan Haines - Notes (Deluxe Edition), featuring remixes, edits & live recordings alongside the tracks that originally appeared on the 2024 album Notes.

'Love You More' has a classic deep house sound, with Nathan's signature soprano sax recorded in one single take. The tack was co-witten by Nathan's long time collaborator Phil Asher, who tragically passed away in 2021.

“This was my dedication to Phil after his passing. It was a shock to all of us when it happened. He  was so alive and so ‘there’ as a person…it took me a few weeks to really grasp he wasn’t part of  this world anymore. But actually he IS a part of this world and will always be via his music and the  way he lived life." - Nathan Haines

Love You More [Edit]

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