Nia Archives - Emotional Junglist - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Nia Archives is the star at the forefront of the latest era of jungle. Since her emergence in 2020, her collagist soundscapes have helped bring the sound to a new generation of clubgoers (though fair warning don't call her a revivalist - she's the first to point out that the scene never went away.) So, when it comes to talk of the 24-year-old DJ/producer/singer-songwriter's much-anticipated debut album, Silence Is Loud, the odds are you're thinking of a full-length record of weightless jungle tracks with basslines so intense they'll leave your ears ringing.

Intensity Ghost is a follow-up to last years critically acclaimed Solar Motel album, which made year ends lists at the New Yorker, Uncut Magazine and Popmatters and provoked ecstatic comparisons; from Television and Neil Young & Crazy Horse to Richard Thompson and the Grateful Dead. Solar Motel came together as a solo album but the band Forsyth assembled to tour the record bassist Peter Kerlin, guitarist Paul Sukeena (Spacin), and drummer Steve Urgo (ex-War on Drugs) - took things to another level and quickly became a powerhouse.

2019 . Hania Rani is a pianist, composer and musician who splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works. Esja is her debut solo album and for Rani it is her first, real, personal statement as an artist. InchNo hiding behind the 'collaborations' or 'projects' anymore. For the very first time, finally - just me, as I amInch. Recorded at Rani's apartment in Warsaw (the piano room has a beautiful reverb and the space has become part art studio and part sound laboratory for Rani) and at her friend Bergur Þórisson'sstudio in Reykjavik, Esja is a series of beautiful melodic vignettes. Sensual, sensitive, rhythmic, atmospheric, free but harmonious, beguiling and hypnotic, collectively they project a sense of unlimited space and time.