Hannah Jadagu - Aperture - Clear Red - VINYL LP

Having worked together on his 2024 album Colours & Light, Project Gemini aka Paul Osborne joins forces once again with Wendy Martinez, French singer and composer, and also part of renowned psych-girl group Gloria on a new collaborative EP. Landing on Mr Bongo, 'Time Stands Still / Le temps s'arrête' is a sonic exploration that shows a shared love of the progressive music emanating out of France in the '60s and '70s and the celebrated film soundtrack composers of the time. A more melodic and romantic excursion than Paul's previous recordings, this EP marries his richly textured, cinematic psych rock with Martinez's captivating vocal presence. A body of work born during the period Paul was finishing up his last LP Colours & Light, he penned an album's worth of instrumental library-style music and had the idea of having Wendy add vocals and lyrics to a selection of them. The instrumental record got scrapped, but thankfully 'Time Stands Still' grew out of it. Paul was a fan of Wendy's work as both a solo artist and in the band Gloria, and her inclusion on the Project Gemini tracks 'Entre chien et loup' & 'Extra Nuit' showed a clear synergy to their musical approaches and sounds. For 'Time Stands Still' he sent over instrumental tracks one by one, with Wendy taking time to find melodies and French poetry she was happy with and returning her ideas from her home just outside of Lyon.Drawing inspiration from French soundtrack composers such as François de Roubaix, Frances Lai and Michel Colombier, as well as French female artists including Léonie and Laurence Vanay, these productions are a contemporary love letter to this sound, not a homage. Mixing psych, folk, chanson, and French new wave, it's music that pulls you in deeper, with groove, grit and passion at it's core. 'Je n'ai plus peur' kicks things off with a sultry energy. It's a psych-funk production drenched in attitu

Pink Vinyl. On Describe, Hannah Jadagu learns the hard way that distance is relative. After her 2023 debut album Aperture garnered glowing praise from outlets like The New York Times and NPR, Jadagu's blossoming career took her away from her blossoming relationship in New York. Her expansive second album sees her grappling with that separation, finding connections that extend beyond the physical and strengthening her own voice in the process. Describe reverberates with that tension, between wanting connection and craving space. It's lyrics, as on her debut, ache with an emotional specificity that can only be pulled from lived experience. InchI've been five thousand miles away,Inch she sings over ricochetting hi-hats on InchMoreInch-InchWhy does three thousand feel like more?Inch But that distance also pushed Jadagu to explore new dimensions of her sound. InchI'm super into artists that are able to mix analog with modern,Inch she said, and moving to California for the summer gave her the opportunity to meet new collaborators and experiment with analog synthesizers and drum machines. And while the warm hum of her guitar was her primary instrument for Aperture, she began to feel that her muscle memory of the instrument was holding her back. InchIt was freeing to be able to sit at a synth and drone on one note while I explored my vocals,Inch she said. InchI found that to be a bit more freeing than playing on a guitar.Inch Working with producer Sora Lopez at his studio in Altadena and remotely on a few songs with Aperture co-producer and collaborator Max Baby out of Paris, Jadagu carved out a sound on Describe that is both distinctively hers and a total departure from the distorted guitar melodies of her debut.Much of Describe, though, is about what goes unsaid InchA lot of this album is me trying to figure out how to express ideas that aren't always so concrete,Inch Jada

Ruby Red Vinyl. Hana Vu's Inchcontemplative indie-pop captures the disillusionment of young adulthood,Inch writes NME. Her new LP Romanticism furthers that sentiment as a coming-of-age work that mourns the impermanence of youth and searches for meaning. The acclaimed LA-born songwriter's been making music since high school, with a full-length debut and several EPs behind her of glowy, brooding anthems of abstraction and emotion. With previous work, Vu welcomed feedback as she went, but while crafting Romanticism, she shielded herself from outside opinion to preserve a singular vision. The result is a unified collection of songs aching with depth and intimacy. rich and loud, the songs can feel both reminiscent of guitar-heavy late-aughts indie rock, and expansively futuristic in it's layered synth bass. They pulse with meaning and jolt with playfulness, anchored by her powerful, sonorous voice and underscored by the record's Romantic era-inspired artwork. InchI'm just trying to convey my perspective as boldly as possible. To succinctly crystallize how it feels to be young, but also to be deeply sad.Inch Under Vu's magnetic gaze, soaking up sadness has never felt so alive. Album Tracks 1. Look Alive 2. Hammer 3. Alone 4. 22 5. Care 6. How It Goes 7. Dreams 8. Find Me Under Wilted Trees 9. Airplane 10. Play 11. I Draw a Heart 12. Love