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On his debut album "Between Me And Myself", young pianist, singer, and producer Frederick Schulze-Schilddorf alias Calida Ray explores psychedelic soundscapes, blending experimental jazz aesthetics and immersive ambient spheres with elements of downbeat and driving electronica. The 21-year-old newcomer sings his deeply personal coming-of-age story, reflecting on his ambivalent relationship with growing up in dream-like lyrical sequences. In times of single-focused music production, “Between Me And Myself” is the antidote: An album best listened to as a full body of work, meditating into the complex layers of harmonies and rhythm changes over the course of 51 minutes.

Calida Ray wrote, produced and mixed “Between Me And Myself” in Freiburg, Berlin and Lisbon mainly between late Summer 2023 and Spring 2024. Many of the songs were first written on piano at Calida Ray’s childhood home. Therefore it only makes sense how Calida Ray’s longplayer describes the torn feeling between old comfort zones and at the same time emancipating from old dependencies. It tells stories of heartbreak and then finding solace in it. Of fading into dreams and then seeking out to express them in reality. The title describes the polarities, the ambivalences we find ourselves in over and over again growing up. Ultimately, “shadows [are] blown away” like Calida Ray states on outro song “fall”.

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Calida Ray - Between Me And Myself

Between Me And Myself

Calida Ray - fall

Calida Ray - feel me, feel you

Calida Ray - shoulders uplifted

Calida Ray - supposed to fly

Calida Ray - it's not enough

Calida Ray - summerdream

Calida Ray - daysun

Calida Ray - lux (interlude)

Calida Ray - woke up/take me away

Calida Ray - why!

Calida Ray - numb sight

Calida Ray - getting cold

Calida Ray - waiting for the storm

Calida Ray – falling into you (feat. INDOME)

Calida Ray - run/intro

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*LOUSELV & Mundy - It's Enough For Me, Anyway (EP)
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*Dim Fumes - Liminal Clouds
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*Noa Erni & Nardo Says - BEAMS, SCREENS & THE SOUND OF LOVE
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Calida Ray - Between Me And Myself

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