Name: Focused Up by Griffin Stoller
Duration: 2 min 22 s
Description: https://open.spotify.com/track/0IeGFpqzOV2a10N3ApPTHB?si=eMxOAkzDS0-77_vH9QPp6w

"The Ocean" The Latest Single by Viktoria Vera
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The Ocean

Cherry Trees was conceived in a dream. A message of yearning to a love overseas, Cherry Trees is an intoxicating glimpse into Leah's fantasy world. Indeed, the sparkling synths, warm upright bass, and hypnotizing beat fuse genres, and beckon the listener into an effervescent dreamscape. Cherry Trees is the first single off of Leah's upcoming full-length project, Caspian, set to release November 2021.

Cherry Trees

Good For Life

Reach The Stars

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Storm

Today Pt.2 Ft. ja! (silo)

Hey everyone, let me tell you how this track actually happened, because it’s too strange not to explain.

I was in a pitch-black mood a few nights ago, headphones on, Nine Inch Nails on repeat. I laid down this ugly, crawling 70 BPM industrial groove: sub-bass like a dying heartbeat, rusted chains dragging across concrete, some reversed masenqo-like scrapes echoing in the distance. No melody yet, just pure void.

While the loop was running, I started writing the most brutal, hollowed-out lyrics I could: blood dripping into forever, fingerprints frozen on fogged glass, a hole in the chest screaming where a heart used to be. 

All in English first, raw and unfiltered.

Then a random thought hit me:

“What would this even sound like… in Amharic?”

Not because I speak it fluently, but because there’s something about that script, that ancient cadence, that feels like it was carved into stone in a church older than pain itself. I was genuinely curious how much heavier, how much more alien and haunting this could get if the words came from that world.

So I translated the whole thing, line by line, into Ge’ez script (ቀዳዳው – “The Hole”). Read it out loud over the beat in the dark. And it broke me. It sounded like a funeral hymn from a planet that had already ended.

At 4 a.m. I hit record, no doubles, no fixes, just one take while the groove kept crawling like it was trying to dig its own grave.

This isn’t appropriation.

This isn’t a gimmick.

This is me asking a question out loud — “What does total emptiness sound like in a language built for prayer and war?” — and the answer came back louder than I was ready for.

So here it is: “ቀዳዳው” – “The Hole.”

70 beats per minute. One take. Pure damage.

Turn the lights off and let it in.

Focused Up

Griffin Stoller

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