Raina Sokolov Gonzalez is a Brooklyn based singer and composer with her musical roots deep in the New York free jazz scene and a wealth of musical experience already under her belt.
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I was trying to cook and needed something to listen to but for all the marvels of the modern world, with every song ever written at my fingertips, I could not choose. Did I want something sad, or would that make it worse? Happy, or would that feel false? Could I cope with new music, or would that exhaust me? The answer was simple: radio.
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Music allows me a special kind of freedom, it unlocks a deep corner of my imagination and gives me physical symptoms for just how much I love it - I’m talking goosebumps, shivers and smiling ear to ear. The kind of things that if you did them on a public bus people would move very far away. A lot further than two metres I’m telling you. (Not that I know from experience or anything.)
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Treasure’s sound doesn’t easily fit into any boxes. His eclectic music tastes and obvious joy in subverting the norm shine through; a left field and intelligent take on trap, r&b and hip hop, visiting glitchy jazz, playful production and soulful harmonies along the way.
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When I say to think of a drummer, I guarantee you that the image of them will be a white male. Your inner feminist will fight it but you’re not to blame, we can blame the patriarchal society we all live in.
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Tommy Newport, a British born singer/songwriter living in Wichita, Kansas, got pretty famous by mistake at the age of sixteen. His self-recorded album released under his birth surname Milmine accidentally racked up millions of streams when he released it just for his friends and family to enjoy in 2016.
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Bristol based Alt-Rock duo, Midnight Filter, are not ones to be compartmentalised. Ahead of their new release, Marrionette, we had the chance to talk with Harry and Ben (albeit virtually) about their motivations as artists, their thoughts on Bristol’s music scene and some advice for aspiring artists to live by.
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Expect 70s folk-horror inspired dreamy, hypnotic melodies, intimate and haunting lyrics, and a sensual sparseness and quiet that will leaving you wanting to discover more.
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Lachlan Werner is an incredibly versatile artist; dabbling with ventroquilism, clowning, stand-up comedy and has recently just released a four episode podcast in collaboration with other queer creatives including Bendy Wendy from Bristol duo Try Me!
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Tom Cox sums this aspect of guilty pleasures up perfectly in his tweet: ‘What people mean by the term “guilty pleasure” 99.5% of the time is “something genuinely joyous pretentious dickheads told me not to like’’.
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Dreamt up by Ola Poroslo and Oli Rushen and launched in September 2020, PHAT Bristol is an artist run initiative composed by managers, producers and media practitioners with politics at it’s heart.
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So, it seems that the idea that politics has a place in music is pretty undeniable. However, where the debate about the place of politics in music has become particularly controversial and difficult to navigate is with regards to cultural appropriation.
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Founded by Ngaio in the back room of popular Easton haunt The Plough in 2018, Booty Bass has become a space that celebrates different cultures from across the world, mixed with much loved UK sounds
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Making his way up through the ranks with trumpet in tow, a stack of live performances already under his belt and with the release of his debut EP ‘Songs for Player 2’ earlier in March, is Alt-Pop/Jazz-Funk producer and songwriter Lyle Anderton. By night he transforms into LYLE!, and he is definitely here and definitely has something to say.
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Since the 60s, when Beatlemania infected the world with sold-out stadiums and screaming young girls, we have put boybands on a particularly high pedestal – actually more like a poster-painted shrine covered in hand-drawn hearts.
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What happens when you combine electronic dance music producer Glue 70, the post-punk, shoegaze, grunge sounds of Freak Slug, and mix them up with a healthy dose of Manchester’s underground scene? You get ZULA.
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Olamiposi is a world of creative talent, he curates events, produces music, he assists on film sets (including Netflix’s Sex Education), holds interview Q&A sessions at film school and works for a marketing company. Recently included in Rife magazine;s 30 Under 30, Posi grew up in rural Ireland before moving to Bristol almost five years ago - he says he’s becoming a full-blow Bristolian now!
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Indie-Electro duo Mass House, made up of childhood friends Tom and Dylan, are our new favourite Brummies washed ashore on the muddy banks of Bristol. They have been busy in lock down honing their synth-driven tongue-in-cheek sound, and on the back of a series of virtual live gigs, including Bristol Beacon’s massively successful Bristol Takeover, as well as curating the charity compilation album ‘Quarantine Machine’, they have a stack of new music to bring to us fresh for 2021.
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There’s just something about hearing a womxn making strange, boundary-breaking, eerie sounds that made me want to sob deeply and simultaneously screech in excitement without explanation. And it still does.
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Melding Ellie’s distinctive dreamy, distorted vocals, her passion for surrealism and storytelling, and Will’s driven, glitchy, beautiful soundscapes and original production, it is a distinct and compelling invitation into the world of Robbie & Mona
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