New Music: Rey Mayari

Future-forward conceptual pop from Sweden. Visually and sonically luxurious, this really is a talent to watch.

Rey Mayari

New Music: Olakira

With ‘Wakanda Jollof’, I put together the best music styles and genres from the continent, spiced up for a global audience. Wakanda is a unifying word, recognized worldwide as a good symbol for Africa, while Jollof is Africa’s favourite spicy rice dish, so I’m basically serving up a spicy dish from the continent to the rest of the world.”

Olakira

New Music: EMBLM

“I actually wrote and recorded most of this music during the darkest time of my life (so far). I’d been in London for about a year, I was having pretty bad money problems, I’d just come crashing quite spectacularly out of a relationship, my musical career wasn’t going where I wanted it to go, and to top it all off I lived in an attic in North London with a mattress on the floor, and you could only stand up straight in the middle of the room because of the slanted low ceiling either side.  I am doing much better now, but I feel like on a personal level it is quite important that I release this music from this somewhat miserable era of my life almost as a form of catharsis, as much as anything.

EMBLM