Best of November 2023

Honesty

Irrelevant is the second single from Afro Indie R&b duo, Xybird. It's a song about reluctantly conceding that, God help you; you might be quite seriously in love with somebody.

IRRELEVANT

Hasty is a chilled but playful ode to those lapses of rational judgment that can sometimes follow a period of feeling lonely. Self awareness and naivety drift in and out of the narrative, highlighting an uneasy balance between certainty and vulnerability.

The song's style bridges the gap between heritage artists such as Elvis Costello and Joan Armatrading with contemporary RnB artists like Teyana Taylor and Pink Sweat$.

HASTY

Strange Light is the second single from my album "Imposter"

Strange Light

Alejandra O'Leary is an electro-pop-rock songwriter and performer from Portland, Maine, U.S.A. 

Alejandra dazzles listeners with the depth and grit of her hybrid pop creations. 

Influenced by Liz Phair, Blur, Britney Spears and the Strokes as much as the Beatles, the Cranberries, the Smiths and Lucinda Williams, Alejandra's music has been featured in PopMatters, No Depression, MAGNET, and other national and international outlets. 

"A Word About It" is Alejandra's latest single. A project made with engineer Todd Hutchisen and guitarist Jamie Church, the track is by turns cool, blistering, metallic, and Beatlesque. The harmonies haunt and layers of synths and acoustic guitars create a pop concoction to revisit endlessly.

A Word About It

Asymptomatrix is drum’n’bass jazztronica meets lo-fi funk/hip-hop breaks, broadly fitting under the umbrella of ‘new era jazz’. For this single, Marks joins the dots between his love of jazz, electronica, drum’n’bass and hip-hop. Imagine John Coltrane or Kamasi Washington collaborating with LTJ Bukem for Def Jam recordings. This is an energetic and happy track that transports listeners into a ’jazztronica matrix’. It’s a soundtrack that combines the real with the surreal, and almost feels like it belongs in a videogame. 

The opening synthesizer trons plug into the listener’s mind, accelerating them through an infinitely revolving tunnel that fills the senses: lush jazz harmonies, driving Thundercat-esque bass-lines, flying ARP-strings and a tenor saxophone sound that is so enveloping, you feel like one of the great masters from the jazz lineage has come back to the future. The first half of this track is driven by a heavy Drum’n’Bass feel, before it unexpectedly takes a twist into a break-beat hip-hop groove, as if the listener enters a new world. As the track finds its new pocket, the stage is set for a blistering post-bop / late 60’s style tenor sax solo from rising NYC star Sam Dillon (Mingus Big Band, Birdland Big Band, Village Vanguard Orchestra). 

Marks wrote, performed, recorded and produced all the synthesizer elements, while his close collaborator Doron Lev performs drums, alongside Dillon on tenor saxophone.

Asymptomatrix

same easy ride !

New Jespfur project coming in January 2024.

Written, Recorded & Produced by Jesper Vervoort
Mixed by Fallwood 
Mastered by Oliver Palfreyman 

Saxophone played by Hans Mulleners.

Had No Words

xy bird

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