A Platform for Ethnically and Culturally Inspired Music
Artists at a glance
AISHA BADRU
ALISON EALES
DEAD AT THE RITZ
ELLIS·D
FAKE EMPIRE
FLORIE NAMIR & FRANCK BIYONG
FREYR
KIM VEN
MAYA LAW
ROE
These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend – and reviewed by
Fresh On The Net’s Poppy Bristow this week. You can hear all these tracks in a
single Soundcloud playlist here:
https://soundcloud.com/freshnet/sets/faves477/s-OFQ2CdDH6Ey
Silence Is Music might sound like something John Cage would say, but this jazzy
number is characterised not by sparseness but by plush depth. As Florie Namir
and Franck Biyong deploy a rainbow of sonic textures with subtle grace, you get
the feeling that they really can hear music in everything. It’s a song you can
settle right into.
Franck already has a stunning career behind him. He’s pioneered his own fusion
genre of ‘Alternative Afro-Electro-Rock’, and having released an album every
year since 2017 shows no sign of slowing down. Singer-songwriter and classical
composer Florie, meanwhile, won the UK Songwriting Contest in February 2021 in
the Jazz category. No surprise, then, that their collaboration should produce
such a welcoming, elegant, and original result.
SILENCE IS MUSIC - Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/florie-namir/silence-is-music
