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Solveig Sletthjell Quartet - New Single - Vente
“Vente” moves with an easy, understated groove, its soft soul colouring and lightly percussive pulse giving the song a warmth that never quite settles into nostalgia. It is relaxed, precise, and quietly radiant.
Slettahjell’s lyric looks towards Vence, where colour, art, wine and sunlight become a counterweight to winter and the long northern wait for spring. The repeated "vente, vente, vente" gives the song both its hook and its central idea: patience, memory, and the certainty that something will eventually begin again.
Lyder Røed - New Album - Telling It Like It Is
Tradition is often treated as something musicians must either preserve or escape. On "Telling It Like It Is", Lyder Røed Quintet chooses a third course: inhabiting it fully, without apology, disguise or historical distance.
The album continues the direction established on 2024’s Upside Down, drawing openly from the Blue Note sound, hard bop, post-bop, Latin jazz and the melodic directness of players such as Lee Morgan, Nat Adderley and Roy Hargrove. Yet the quintet does not approach this music as period reconstruction. For these musicians, jazz history is not sealed behind glass. It exists alongside the present, immediately accessible through records, streaming services, playlists and the accumulated listening of a generation for whom musical eras no longer arrive in strict chronological order.
RYMDEN - New Single - Five Steps From A Dream
Written by Magnus Öström, “Five Steps From A Dream” opens in a hush of brushed drums, falling like rain around gently wandering piano chords. The music seems to hover at the edge of sleep rather than enter it fully, moving through small cascades, ascending figures and quiet shifts of colour. Delicate without becoming fragile, it captures RYMDEN in a reflective mood, tracing the distance between waking thought and dream.
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