Eva Lunny

Producer, musician, and composer Eva Lunny shapes sonically diverse soundscapes and neoclassical harp pieces, building on themes of memory, space, spiritual growth and meditation. Her influences include jazz-harp pioneers Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane, as well as a collection of contemporary ambient and neoclassical musicians. Eva’s process includes hours of improvisation balanced with considered production and free-flowing experimentation, resulting in complex layers of sounds and distinctive distortion of both uniquely classical and contemporary instruments.

Written and recorded between 2020-2021, Sonics and Meditations reflect on feelings of inertia, translating a year of uncertainty into cascading sonic rhythms and ambient contemplation.

Icebeing

Restless and direct, dissonant and infectious, Icebeing’s Striped is DIY laptop music of a vividly multi-faceted stripe. The project is the work of prolific Brighton-based multi-tasker Luke Phillips, whose recording output over 10 years has numbered almost 30 albums, released online under different names. Icebeing is his newly outgoing, song-based front: “My first conscious effort at making pop music,” says Phillips. His last album made in his family home, Striped touches on themes of “losing time, wasting youth, missed opportunity and retreating to the comforts of childhood”. But it also brims with life, a controlled cacophony of distorted riffs, organ wheeze, tumbling drums, shiny synths, scrunchy samples and more: essentially, indie-pop self-reflection taken to the funfair of ’60s psychedelic exploration with a bedroom-load of modern tech.

“I wanted it to sound like a good time,” says Phillips. ‘Channel What I Was Feeling’ couples ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’-ish rhythmic loops with an Elephant 6-grade melody. ‘A Figment’ showcases Phillips’ vaulting vocal leaps, while ‘King of Pyrotechnics’ rises to titular expectations over two brisk, buoyant minutes. Naked in its sonic imperfections, and immersive in its detailed evocations of environment, Striped reflects the home-recorded circumstances of its gestation even as it reaches out to new horizons. Between noise and melody, introversion and extroverted sound, the result is a thrillingly distinct and searching vision, willed into an exuberant, honest-to-goodness being.

Wren Hinds

Hailing from the small town of Ramsgate along the tropical east coast of South Africa, singer- songwriter and producer, Wren Hinds delivers a lush, textured and honest approach to crafting songs with a reflective lyrical sensibility that communicates deep profundity. Hinds goes on to release a seven-track EP, A Child’s Chant for the New Millennium, a handful of songs recorded in his childhood home, highlighted by yet another noteworthy writing union with Keith Erasmus on the opening three tracks. In a relatively short career, all the while flying under the radar with a rather low profile, Wren Hinds has proven to be a prolific songwriter, producer and composer, and an artist that is definitely worth keeping an eye on.