Overstimulated

Overstimulated flipped by Leena. Leena Zhané crafts music that lives at the edges of genre — where Classical meets Ambient, where Techno meets stillness, where sound becomes story. As a composer and sound artist, they explore emotion and narrative through immersive textures, field recordings and collaborative design, creating work that feels both intimate and expansive. Whether composing atmospheric soundscapes or reshaping rhythms on the dancefloor, Leena’s practice is rooted in curiosity and connection.

Written by Helen Bayett
Remixed by Leena Zhané
Mastered by Izzy McPhee at Weird Jungle

Overstimulated (Leena Remix)

Live performance of my Rooms cover by Sasha at Shuffley Daze Festival. I was so nervous I could hardly function (so vocals not quite what I'd like them to be) but a little window into that lovely festival and our first live offering :) It's also just been captured on a voice recorder so consider the extra noises part of the ambience...  

Accompanied by Joel Matthews on Djembe and Sam Bayett on Synth.
Live audio engineering by William Smith.

Rooms (Sasha cover) - Live at Shuffley Daze Festival

RAVELSTON's funkkky-as flip of Overstimulated. Rob has an inspiringly eclectic taste, both as a producer, DJ and live performer, with a deep fondness for leftfield, cosmic and psychedelic sounds which comes through in spades in the music he creates. His playful, weighty spin of this track definitely needs a field trip to a big sound system somewhere!

Track credits:
Released August 29, 2025
Remixed by Ravelston
Mastered by Izzy McPhee Audio at Weird Jungle.

Overstimulated (Ravelston Remix)

Hate Cannot Exist Here is a raw, celestial dance offering built around the powerful spoken word of Jaidah. Her voice is the soul of the track - everything was built in response to her words. It explores how fear can underpin hate, and how choosing peace is an act of resistance. Warehouse grit meets ambient shimmer and broken rhythms, tangled with sounds from the undergrowth - like a loud noise in the forest that sends everything flying upward in a dusty, suspended moment. “Fear should never steer the helm of your destiny.” It’s about a spark. A reckoning. An invitation. An initiation. For me, this track is a personal commitment to peace: a messy, beautiful refusal of hate.

Hate Cannot Exist Here

Small Gifts is a track about purpose and reflecting on the messy internal dynamics of grief, while trying to hold the people you love close and juggling all of life’s pressures. It’s “like being in a washing machine, for the soul” - trying, failing, and often feeling like you’re getting it wrong. The track features my own vocals, which I've been gently bringing back into my production, woven together with the spoken reflections of Isolde, who runs the wonderful Murmuration Choir in Bristol. Singing with Murmuration was such a healing experience, it felt like being in a constellation. 

At its core, Small Gifts is a musical meditation on existence and the strange, fragile work of being human through life’s seismic shifts. Guided by Issi’s voice, it is sort of “a deep-dive masterclass in being you,” drifting through layered soundscapes and glimmering textures. Anyway, that's the bubble creating this piece ended up cocooning around me, during one of the most challenging windows of my life. I hope it might provide some solace for anyone else stuck in a storm of questions while navigating life's high seas.

released December 2, 2025
Small Gifts
Featuring Isolde
Written and Produced by Skies Up
Mixed by Wonderwave
Mastered by Izzy McPhee @ Weird Jungle
Artwork by Skies Up

Small Gifts

Producer / Song writer / Vocalist / DJ - Scotland / Bristol 

Skies Up is my musical sanctuary - a place I return to after years of people-pleasing, to rediscover who I am. I’m a singer, self-taught producer and intuitive multi-instrumentalist, crafting introspective music that blends folk-tinged vocals and ambient shimmer with hazy, nostalgia-laced electronic and dance textures. My sound is rooted in emotional storytelling, where spoken word meets drum texture, where grief becomes rhythm, and softness holds its own in the noise.

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