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Picture Credit: Small Island Big Song   Small Island Big Song - Our Island Release Date: January 28, 2022 Label: selfrelease Format: CD / Digital Length: 69:19 Genre: World Music Origin: Taiwan / Australia In the year 2015, producer BaoBao Chen  from Taiwan and Australian film maker Tim Cole  have joined forces and founded the project Small Island Big Song. Their intention is to give a voice to people that are often unheard in global debates about climate change - the inhabitants of island nations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The approach Chen  and Cole  used here differs from the typical cinematic presentation of the impact of climate change on people's lives. Instead, the artists started a multi-channel way to display the cultural heritage which is at stake when we do not stop the sea levels from rising. Therefore, Cole  and Chen  have filmed more than a hundred musicians performing over sixteen island nations. Recordings by musicians from Rapa...

Picture Credit: Marie Minet   Marie Minet - Je serais tout ce que tu veux Release Date: February 12, 2021 Length: 03:25 Genre: Folk / World / Spoken Word Origin: Paris , France "Je serais tout ce que tu veux" (French: "I will be anything that you want") is a song about love, but not a love song. The atmospheric sound deals with the disillusionment that can severely that can injure trust and amorous ease in a relationship, and consequently lead to resignation. After in previous single " Prête à tout " (French: "Ready for anything"), Marie Minet showed how love can intefere with reason, ideals, and principles, the follow-up track concerns a fire that has gone extinct while one of the partners is still trying to fan the embers. Marie Minet provides the audience with a bittersweet mélange of melancholy, passion, reflection, and departure. The musical foundation is a wholesome alloy of Capverdian, French, and borderless music that combines bouyancy,...

Picture Credit: LDRDO   LDRDO - Lost in the Fire Release Date: April 05, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 12:02 Genre: Electro Funk Origin: Tel Aviv , Israel "Lost in the Fire"is the debut EP by Tel Aviv's songwriter and producer David Levi , also known as LDRDO (pronounced: Eldorado). The five-track release provides us with a very unique combination of musical spheres, eras, and styles. LDRDO hence merges times and spaces in a sonic hot pot. The result is a tidbit for ears and synapses. The theme of "Lost in the Fire" concerns situations in which sensual beings are stuck or sheer overwhelmed and thus do not know how to go on. Yet, they do go on and they find their way out of stalemate. Even with their eyes blinded, sensual beings can explore the unknown and rediscover their own sanity. The music, LDRDO presents on the EP is a colourful and versatile mix of styles. Mostly electronic and partially by the help of guitars and riq, universal and timel...