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Gone

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🎵 **Ray Ramon - Jeje feat. Spydaman** 🎵

Get ready to groove all night with **"Jeje"** by Ray Ramon featuring Spydaman! This bouncy and fun Afropop track is designed to keep you moving and grooving with the one you love. 

The song boasts a seductive, sexy, and cool relaxed vibe, making it the perfect feel-good anthem. The blend of Afro dancehall and azontobeats gives it a unique flavor that stands out in the pop music scene.

With a tempo of 106 BPM and set in C# minor, "Jeje" effortlessly combines catchy rhythms and smooth melodies. The word "Jeje" means "calm" in Yoruba, and the track truly lives up to its name, offering a soothing yet energetic experience.

Tune in and let the infectious beats and heartfelt lyrics take you on a musical journey you won't forget! 🌟

JEJE

Jeje (feat. Spydaman)

GONE

Reject Song

Reject Song (feat. Mark Lettieri)

The Black Stone

Premiered on Under the Radar Magazine - https://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premiere_josaleigh_pollett_shares_new_single_radio_player

Salt Lake City-based Indie Singer-Songwriter Josaleigh Pollett will return on October 28th with “Radio Player,” an electronics-infused and Poltergeist-inspired new single. Here, Josaleigh is reunited with long-time collaborator Jordan Watko (Crowd Shy) for the first time since Jordan’s relocation to Japan, making this their first recorded output since 2023’s highly acclaimed “In the Garden, By the Weeds,” which NPR Music’s Bob Boilen featured on All Songs Considered.

Despite the distance between them, the pair opted to make their first cross-continent collaboration more ambitious and exploratory than what came before. Initially finding acclaim in 2020 with their ‘No Woman Is the Sea’ album, before going on to share bills with St. Vincent, Torres, Deep Sea Diver, DeVotchKa, Mini Trees, Hibou, and Kilby Block Party, “Radio Player” sees their sound continue to evolve. This new slowburning single merges analogue atmospherics, Indie Rock drive, and Pop melodies to create something that feels haunting, claustrophobic, and cathartic.

Speaking on their return, Josaleigh comments:

"Radio Player is a song about memory and fear, loosely based on seeing the movie Poltergeist at too young an age. It is a journey through the hallways of childhood that we leave a light on within. A pink light flickers on and beckons the listener through, releasing them changed and covered in ectoplasm five minutes later.

In true independent DIY fashion and similar to 2023's In The Garden, By The Weeds, this new song is recorded mostly at home between my Salt Lake City make-shift home studio, and Jordan's apartment in Japan. The difference this time is that we're bringing in more collaborations and new instrumentation. In addition to mixing and mastering, Nashville's Andrew Goldring helped with production and played some instruments on Radio Player, as well as being a part of the live band that played Kilby Block Party earlier this year. Radio Player really got its feet under it in a live band setting, and we tried to bring more of that to our production without losing the electronic-based production that Jordan is so fluent in. 

This is the first song we made together since Jordan moved to Japan in 2024, and instead of letting distance dampen our collaboration, we really tried to lean into the chaos and confusion of creating from different ends of different days while an ocean apart. I think a lot of that anxiety and newness mixed with the dedication of friendship drives this new music.”

Josaleigh Pollett.- Radio Player

Cabin In The Woods

Put A Record On

Liberation

Liberation (feat. Qyor)

Wildfire

MAGIC :::

Since we met /
I am lit / 
Up ////
In every place /
Oh to feel /
Such love //.

Since we met /
I am lit / up /
In every place /
Oh to feel / such / love ////////

*Magic without tricks //
We make six //
No dilute / 2 to get 1
We grow / truer / to / ourselves
From the mirrors //  we’re shown //

Pick up bag /
Mood shoes //
Find Trees //////
Watching / as we / learn / from / leaves ///
To let it all go 
& hold close /
to the gift //
of changing forms ////
Seasonal souls / touch roots //
To grow

*

//.

Recorded & Mixed by Simon “Ding” Archer (The Fall, PJ Harvey)
Mixed & Mastered by Sèbastien Allemand
Released by Society of Losers & 9x9 Records

This is the first single released from the debut album WHO ARE YA? out 14th Nov 
OORYA.NET

MAGIC

“Thunder” was born from the stillness before the rain. It explores the emotional landscape between peace and chaos — where sound becomes weather, and music becomes memory. The thunder in the background is not an effect, but a voice: nature’s own percussion, echoing through the composition’s slow, unfolding melodies.


credits
releases October 31, 2025
Written & performed by Valeska Rautenberg
Mixed by Thomas Lemmer
Mastered by Ramin Tehrani

Thunder

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Thunder - Valeska and the River

Dark pop with bite.  
“Bad Liar” is cinematic alt-pop - where confidence meets honesty.  
For the moment you stop holding back and finally say it how it is.  
Vocals + song by Madison. Production by Oliver Lundström.

Buy on Itunes

BAD LIAR

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Already Taken is about trying to process living without somebody after they’ve chosen to leave you, and the everyday reminders they leave behind. Written with friends Sam Perry and Tom Hammond, and released via Mahogany Songs. 

Already Taken

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