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Even voorstellen – shitfruit - 'Aisla', single

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Even voorstellen – shitfruit - 'Aisla', single (digital)

shitfruit records
Release: 2 september 2025

Met 'Aisla' brengt Michiel De Maeseneer een derde single uit vóór 'Starts With A Flower', het tweede album van shitfruit, het levenslicht ziet. Het nummer klinkt onstuimiger en verscheurder dan zijn voorgangers, en tast de fragiele grens af tussen verlangen, rationaliteit en afstand.

De tekst draait rond het gevoel nooit genoeg te zijn, en de vraag of vrijheid, timing en nabijheid ooit samen kunnen bestaan. “You lead my mind every time / but never on time” klinkt het, een mantra van gemis en frustratie die zich tegelijk vastbijt en loslaat. Het refrein “Ai ai ai Aisla / all you got is love for them / but never enough” is zowel bezwering als een wanhoopskreet, echoënd in een emotionele ruimte die intiem en vervreemdend aanvoelt.

Muzikaal blijft shitfruit trouw aan dromerige melancholie, hi-fi opnames en een stem die gevaarlijk dichtbij kruipt. Maar in 'Aisla' sluipen herhalingen die mantra’s worden, en een ritmiek die schuurt en tegelijk meesleept. Het is muziek die de luisteraar niet langer enkel observeert, maar meeneemt in een directe zoektocht naar houvast.

Met deze single release zet De Maeseneer de laatste stap richting zijn nieuwe album 'Starts With A Flower'. 'Aisla' klinkt als een open wonde die weigert te helen en precies daarin schuilt de kracht van de song.

shitfruit is het muzikale alter ego van engineer, producer en multi-instrumentalist Michiel De Maeseneer. Wat begon als een zoektocht naar houvast na een turbulente periode in 2021, groeide al snel uit tot een creatieve uitlaatklep in zijn studio in Brussel. Omringd door een bonte verzameling instrumenten bouwde Michiel laag per laag aan zijn eigen sound. Het resultaat? ‘salad’, het debuutalbum van shitfruit dat in 2024 verscheen. Een plaat waarin eerlijkheid en emotie centraal stonden maar die vooral ook de kracht van het opnieuw beginnen vierde.
Aisla - Single by shitfruit | Spotify

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shitfruit – stuck, stuck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkaCJJeLW6s
Blue, Blue - Single by shitfruit | Spotify
Flowers On The Tabletop
File under: Mac DeMarco, Leonard Cohen, Beck, Deerhunter, Sparklehorse

Live:

17 september, GC Ten Weyngaert, Vorst (try out)

22 oktober, Beursschouwburg, Brussel - album releaseshow

21 november, Bosch, Arnhem (NL)

22 november, Moby Dick, Antwerpen

24 november, Post Hotel, Wetteren

27 november, Zappa, Oosterzele

30 november, Lokaal 42, Helmond (NL)

12 december, De Kroon, Antwerpen

Meer shows tba

Even voorstellen - Indierockband Vera & The Sleepover Club maakt rauw punk-uitstapje met ‘Hit (Something)’

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Even voorstellen - Indierockband Vera & The Sleepover Club maakt rauw punk-uitstapje met ‘Hit (Something)’

Met hun nieuwe single laat Vera & The Sleepover Club een andere kant van zichzelf zien. Hit (Something) is een meta punknummer bestaande uit één akkoord en een tekst vol zelfspot. Waar frontvrouw Vera Baldé ooit bekendstond als gevoelige singer-songwriter, kiest ze nu bewust voor de ongepolijste energie van punk. “Toen trad ik op met persoonlijke liedjes en ingewikkelde akkoordenprogressies, maar dit keer wilde ik gewoon iets rauws maken; iets vets waar mensen op kunnen dansen”, vertelt Baldé.

Hit (Something) gaat over het niet kunnen schrijven van een punknummer, in het jasje van een punknummer. Een zoektocht naar de rauwheid, lelijkheid en ongegeneerde boosheid. Hoe lekker zou het zijn om soms alles los te laten? ‘Maybe I should hit something, or something? Can I be someone, someone like that?’.

De release markeert ook de komst van nieuwe bassist Daniël Lokerse, die de videoclip maakte met zijn ouderwetse VHS-camera. In die clip speelt de band onbeschaamd met het idee dat ze the coolest band ever zijn, uiteraard met een dikke knipoog.

 Bekijk de videoclip hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AQBy3IfYjE 

Even voorstellen – Tsar B – Amor

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Even voorstellen – Tsar B – Amor

TSAR B SLAAT HAAR VLEUGELS OPNIEUW UIT OP "AMOR"
YouTube
Op maandag 15 september deelt Tsar B haar nieuwe single "Amor", de eerste release sinds de release van haar album To The Stars in 2023. "Amor" is geïnspireerd op de Italiaanse componist Claudio Monteverdi's aangrijpende sopraansolo "Lamento della Ninfa" ("De klaagzang van de nimf")

"Ik heb de zanglijn in het refrein verwerkt, maar er nieuwe teksten voor geschreven. De nimf – het personage dat ik in het lied vertolk – zingt over een gebroken hart. Niet om mijn geliefde, maar om een wereld die mijn hart gebroken heeft – om alles wat er nu in de wereld gebeurt met de aangaande genocides. Het is een oproep voor liefde."

EEN VISUELE WERELD
In de videoclip, geregisseerd door Ensor-winnaar Lennert Madou, zien we Tsar B een gigantische vogel bestijgen – vanop haar gevleugelde metgezel overziet ze de chaos en wanhoop, op veilige afstand. Bourgeus benadrukt dat het personage dat ze in de video speelt – in tegenstelling tot de nimf – verlamd en machteloos is geworden door het voortdurende lijden waarmee ze geconfronteerd wordt: ze vliegt, maar kan niet afdalen. Hoewel het heroïsche, mythologische beelden oproept, is ze in feite eerder een antiheld geworden.

"Voor de video werkte ik opnieuw samen met mijn visuele echtgenoot, Lennert Madou. Ik componeer soundtracks voor zijn films, en hij regisseert mijn video's. Hij begrijpt mijn concepten en ideeën door en door, waardoor samenwerken zo'n plezier is. De meesterlijke poppenmakers met wie ik altijd werk, hebben een 12 meter lange vogel gemaakt."

OVER TSAR B
Tsar B is een multi-instrumentalist, producer en componist. Opgeleid als klassiek violiste, maakte ze haar entree in de indie¬wereld met de release van haar eerste solo-EP, die internationale aandacht kreeg van onder meer The Fader, Noisey UK en de BBC. Sindsdien bracht ze volledig onafhankelijk twee studioalbums en drie EP's uit, en in het begin van 2026 verschijnt haar langverwachte nieuwe album.

Tsar B is een veelgevraagd opera- en filmcomponist. Haar muziek heeft een grote aanhang in de danswereld: haar tracks worden regelmatig gebruikt in So You Think You Can Dance USA en in talloze choreografieën overal ter wereld. Ze toerde internationaal en trad samen met dansers uit steden als São Paulo, Los Angeles, Londen, Brussel en daarbuiten op.

Even voorstellen – Mark William Lewis – self-titled album out

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Even voorstellen – Mark William Lewis – self-titled album out
MARK WILLIAM LEWIS ANNOUNCES SELF-TITLED ALBUM DUE SEPTEMBER 12 VIA A24 MUSIC

Sept 25 “STILL ABOVE” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMPyb_D_09I

End August 25 “skeletons coupling” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmWCFykURVw

July 25 “seventeen” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3imSODL_sHc


June 25 “STILL ABOVE” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMPyb_D_09I
06/10 - Brugge, BE Cactus Muziekcentrum
25/10 - Bxl - Botanique

mark william lewis returns to announce his new album and share its upbeat, harmonica-kissed second single, “Still Above.” The self-titled album, Mark William Lewis, will arrive September 12 via A24 Music.

“Still Above” and “Tomorrow is Perfect” together stand as testament to mark william lewis’ gifts, a unique songwriter with a widescreen scope who combines texturally rich soundscapes with vivid, poetic lyrics and an immediately recognizable vocal delivery. Whereas “Tomorrow is Perfect” gradually swelled with hypnotic grace, here Lewis finds an off-kilter tempo, his deep voice riding atop a rollicking groove, punctuated by trumpet and his signature dub-inspired harmonica stabs.

Speaking about “Still Above,” Lewis says: “Still Above” is the morning after an argument. You are trying to remember what happened the night before but the memories are blurry. Part of you wants to repair the emotional wreckage, but another part of you wants to stay in bed and relax into the familiar comforts of conflict.

Mark William Lewis is due to be the London-based artist’s first album with A24 Music, a fully formed arrival following a series of celebrated self-released EPs, mixtapes and singles. Notably, it will also be the first independent artist project released by the label. The self-titled album marks a new chapter for the artist — one that feels confident, innovative, and timely.

Over the past few years, Lewis has become a fixture in more innovative spaces of London’s live music scene, with his performances and music becoming a word-of-mouth success. This led to sold-out US debut headline shows at Elsewhere and Public Records (NYC) and The Echo (LA) last year as well as a full headline show at a sold-out ICA earlier this year, before embarking on a full UK tour.

A new headline run kicks off this fall with EU dates throughout October before heading to the North America for November. Scroll down for album details, artwork, and full tour routing with support acts.

mark william lewis
Mark William Lewis
September 12, 2025
A24 Music

1. Still Above

  1. Recent Future
  2. Seventeen
  3. Socialising
  4. Tomorrow is Perfect
  5. Spit
  6. Ugly
  7. Skeletons Coupling
  8. Petals
  9. Brain
  10. Silver Moon
  11. Ecstatic Heads

Even voorstellen – Jasmine.4.T new single ‘I can’t believe I did this without you’

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Even voorstellen – Jasmine.4.T new single ‘I can’t believe I did this without you’

JASMINE.4.T NEW SINGLE “I CAN’T BELIEVE I DID THIS WITHOUT YOU”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCBcd8PUGcs

LIVE 30th Oct - Trefpunt, Ghent

Jasmine.4.t announces a deluxe version of her debut album You Are The Morning, which features five new tracks. 'You Are The Morning (YBT Deluxe)' is a dedication to Jasmine's friend Yulia Trot and is out this Friday (Sept 12th) via Saddest Factory Records. Jasmine is also sharing a single from the record, "I Can't Believe I Did This Without You".

"I Can't Believe I Did This Without You" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pkIF2tM0oQ&list=OLAK5uy_mok23DwfcoS9BExSuLqScGshJ15Ej6JN8

Based in Manchester, Jasmine became the first UK signee to Phoebe Bridgers' label and her debut album You Are The Morning, produced by Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus was released in January.

The light still breaks through each morning. That’s the driving sentiment on You Are The Morning, the debut album from trans woman and singer-songwriter jasmine.4.t. Its title is dedicated to queer friendship, which she says saved her life. For her, queer people represent “a fresh start, new days which are beautiful and cosmic.”

On You Are The Morning (YBT Deluxe), Jasmine said:
"This deluxe version of my record is dedicated to political prisoner Yulia Trot aka YBT. I met Yulia at the first queer event I ever attended. It was six months after I had come out, and I was still living in Bristol but staying with friends in Manchester. Yulia and I became really close - she taught me how to do my makeup over FaceTime, supported me through my marriage ending, and when I became homeless I moved onto the sofa of her one-bed flat in Manchester until I found a room. She stayed by my side through the toughest times of my life, giving me the strength to carry on through my transition, and in time we became each others’ chosen family. When I started performing as Jasmine, she would come on the road with me as roadie/security. There were a few times when she put herself between me and men twice her size who wished to harm me.

As the project grew, Yulia continued touring with us, running the merch stand and selling her handmade friendship bracelets for the benefit of Trans Mutual Aid Manchester, an organisation that supports members of my community with essential costs. She became a close friend of the whole band and a vital, supportive and reliable member of our community.


One evening in November 2024, while we were recording a live session for 6 Music, we heard news that Yulia had been arrested that day in a violent raid on her home. She is one of the Filton 24, arrestees alleged to be connected with a group of actionists entering the UK headquarters of Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit systems in August 2024, where £1m worth of damage was said to be caused. This included killer Israeli drones that have been reported to target Palestinian children in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Our beloved Yulia was initially arrested under terrorism law in a gross misuse of legislation that allowed heavy-handed police powers. She was then charged with the non-terror offences of burglary and trespass, but transferred as a political prisoner to a maximum security private prison on the other side of the country, away from her family and friends, where she will be held on remand for a total of two years until her trial. As with several other protestors that the state wishes to make an example of, she was kept in the rehab wing so that she would experience sensory torture from the constant screams of inmates experiencing withdrawal symptoms. The prosecutors’ details were shared with Israeli state officials in a breach of judicial independence. The United Nations have intervened in this case, stating that anti-terrorism legislation “may have been used to circumvent procedural safeguards in relation to detention, and as a specific and general deterrent” in a serious breach of human rights standards. Several international humanitarian law firms have cosigned a letter (https://eldh.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/UK-Filton-18-Statement.pdf ) warning that this case signals a serious backslide of democracy and the rule of law.

Since her arrest, Yulia’s chosen family and friends have been regularly visiting her at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey and supporting her financially while in prison. Her absence is felt deeply and the visits to the prison carry an enormous emotional toll for us all. It terrifies me to see how my best friend’s mental health has deteriorated - she is autistic and is really struggling on the inside. There have been several periods where we have worried about her not surviving until her trial.

Entering the prison as a trans woman is terrifying, knowing how trans women are treated in prison. The first time I visited I was groped, and the second time I visited one of the guards made a joke about sexually assaulting prisoners. Though Bronzefield is the largest “Woman’s Prison” in Europe, several inmates there are transsexual men who are forcibly detransitioned on entry and denied access to their testosterone. Recently a trans man died in custody there - he was one of Yulia’s friends. This all happens while pride flags are displayed in the visiting hall. These daily traumas are wearing down on Yulia to the point where she thinks she is no longer herself, and will never be the same again.

Since my record was centred around themes of queer solidarity, queer friendship and queer love, three things that I believe Yulia personifies, it made sense to dedicate this deluxe version to her. These are some of the songs that she loved the most and often requested live, in particular “Did U No”, which was her favourite. I visited Yulia in prison during the recording session for this track, and I remember crying, screaming, and channeling my rage at the state into the vocals when I returned to the studio that evening.

We had planned to record “Did U No” for the album originally, as it was also a favourite of Phoebe’s, but sadly we ran out of time in LA. It is such a joy, now, to be able to finally get it down. It is joined by “Find Ur Ppl”, which was the second song that I wrote after coming out (following “Woman”). “Find Ur Ppl” is a song about meeting Yulia and the Manchester community, which feels vitally important given how many young trans people are in danger, isolated and in need of the safe haven of queer camaraderie. “I Can’t Believe I Did This Without You” and “I Don’t Think Anyone Else Could Hold The Same Place In My Heart” are two new songs on this release that I wrote during the LA recording sessions for the album, up on the roof of Sound City Studio between takes. I recorded five songs as demos and sent them as a thank you to my bandmates and producers after returning home to Manchester from LA. It’s nice to have more polished versions of these two. The remaining song, “Please Can We Hold Each Other Yesterday,” is a more recent ode to lost time with loved ones. I demoed this track on my phone and Steph Marziano (the awesome producer of these new tracks) liked it so much, as it was, that she suggested we didn’t re-record it and release it as is. I love how these tracks have turned out, with the help of Steph and the incredible band lineup that I have been playing live with this summer - Phoenix Rousiamanis on violin and keys, Maeve Westall on drums and Emily Abbott on bass.

Now when I sing these songs, I am singing them to my best friend, my mother, my sister, my daughter - the political prisoner Yulia Trot. Of all the things that I have lived through, nothing has felt as big as losing her. I hope that one day she will be able to hear these recordings. I hope that one day she, all of her co-defendants, and all of Palestine, will be free.

Since releasing her debut album, Jasmine has toured extensively including support for Lucy Dacus as well as festival shows at Green Man, Reading & Leeds, End of the Road and many more. Jasmine will headline shows across the US, Europe, Australia, and the UK later this year.

You Are The Morning (YBT Deluxe) tracklist:

  1. Kitchen
  2. Skin On Skin
  3. Highfield
  4. Breaking In Reverse
  5. You Are The Morning
  6. Best Friend's House
  7. Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation
  8. Tall Girl
  9. New Shoes
  10. Roan
  11. Elephant
  12. Transition
  13. Woman
  14. Please Can We Hold Each Other Yesterday
  15. Find Ur Ppl
  16. I Can't Believe I Did This Without You
  17. I Don't Think Anyone Else Could Hold The Same Place In My Heart
  18. Did U No

Even voorstellen – RuWann - 'Mais Qu'Est-Ce Tu Veux', single

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Even voorstellen – RuWann - 'Mais Qu'Est-Ce Tu Veux', single
Release: 18 september 2025

RuWann brengt begin oktober hun debuutalbum 'Passé Composé' uit. Single 'Mais Qu’Est-Ce Tu Veux' out now.

Mais qu'est-ce tu veux - Single by RuWann | Spotify

Zangeres Runa Lotigiers en muzikant Johan Maekelberg (vader van producer/muzikant Jasper Maekelberg) vonden elkaar in 2023 als artistieke soulmates. Samen vormen ze RuWann, een nieuw muzikaal duo dat het Franse chanson opnieuw uitvindt met invloeden uit indie-folk, pop, bossanova en afro. Runa groeide op in de Dordogne en zingt in haar moedertaal, het Frans. Haar stem – intiem, krachtig en doorleefd – wordt gedragen door rijke, gelaagde arrangementen waarin tekst en muziek elkaar versterken. Ze noemen hun eigen werk “levensliederen”: songs die verhalen over liefde, melancholie, verlies, hoop en de wonderen der natuur, steeds met de blik vooruit.

De vooruitgeschoven eerste single 'Toi', die verscheen in april 2025, is een ode aan alle artiesten en ambachtslieden, die gedreven door de liefde voor hun vak en tegen alle stroom in, hun talenten blijven delen. Hieruit werd het idee geboren een samenwerking aan te gaan met verschillende artiesten in het kader van de album release show van 11 oktober 2025, die plaats vindt Bij’ De Vieze Gasten in Gent. Elke kunstenaar kreeg 1 song om zich te laten inspireren. Het zal een avond worden waar diverse kunstvormen de songs aan elkaar zullen vlechten : van dichtkunst over dans tot glasblazen en zoveel meer. Alle kunstwerken zullen ook te bezichtigen zijn.

RuWann treedt al meer dan een jaar op als duo, maar voor de release van hun album zullen ze hun muziek met een full-band brengen. Ze zullen het podium delen met Laurens Smagghe (drums), Tom Goethals (bass) en Jan Roelkens (keys).

Laat je meevoeren en onderdompelen in een zee van emotievolle songs met een universeel karakter, waarin elke gevoelige luisteraar zich kan herkennen.

Live:

19/09, Koning Ezel, Lede

11/10, Bij de Vieze Gasten, Gent - album release concert

https://www.deviezegasten.org/nl/programmatie/ruwann/717/2025-10-11

26/10, Trage wegen, Zwalm

14/11, De Kunstwaard, Zomergem

15/11, Nanda, Lokeren

28/11 Kaffie is kaffie, Gentbrugge

Meer shows tba

Zwangere Guy brengt derde single uit van Dit is Guy. - 'Gorik Pt.2'

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Zwangere Guy brengt derde single uit van Dit is Guy. - 'Gorik Pt.2'

De Brusselse rapper brengt zijn derde single uit van het aankomende album Dit is Guy., dat op 24 september zal verschijnen. Gorik Pt. 2 is het vervolg van Gorik Pt.1 uit zijn album Wie is Guy?. We horen eerst een fragment van de toen 6-jarige Gorik die inbelt op het populaire radio programma 'Radio Fantastiek'. Hij beloofd in het gesprek om goed te zorgen voor zijn moeder. Ook is er in de song een referentie naar 'Je t'attends'.

“Ik ben blij dat ge hier nog zijt, want zoveel vrienden rond mij raken hun geliefdes kwijt. Ik wacht op u en daarom dat ik deze brief hier schrijf, omdat ik u graag zie en dat is nieuw voor mij."

Op zondag 21 september wordt er ook een bijhorden clip gelanceerd met Pollux Vandeputte (zoon van Stijn Vandeputte aka STIJN) en Laurence Roothooft in de hoofdrollen.

Belangrijke data:
21/09/2025 – Videoclip Gorik Pt.2
24/09/2025 – Release Dit is Guy.
20/11/2025 – Indoorshow in ING ARENA Brussel (uitverkocht)
04/03/2026 Indoorshow in Vorst Nationaal

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Toutpartout news - LABELMAN welcomes Rosie Stuart + first single ‘Vegan’ out now!

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Toutpartout news - LABELMAN welcomes Rosie Stuart + first single ‘Vegan’ out now!

We are pleased to share that we are now working with Belgian alternative singer-songwriter Rosie Stuart. Rosie has been making name in the Belgian alternative scene for a couple years now and her work has consistently caught our attention. The fact that Rosie resides in our hometown Ghent makes the connection even stronger! 

More exciting news - Rosie Stuart has recently been selected for the preliminary rounds of Sound Track, a Belgian music competition organized by VI.BE. On October 11th, Rosie and her great band will perform at De Casino in Sint-Niklaas, contending for a place in the finals. Laureates win a year of tailored guidance, residencies, studio time, national exposure and international showcase opportunities.

With TOUTPARTOUT, we’re happy to also take her under our wings at LABELMAN!

‘Vegan’ will be the first of two singles leading up to Rosie Stuart’s forthcoming EP.
With ‘Vegan’, Rosie won the Baloise on Stage singer-songwriter competition, organized by Baloise in collaboration with Belgian alternative rock band Het Zesde Metaal.
Winning the competition gave Rosie the chance to record the single in a professional studio, with coaching from Het Zesde Metaal.
About ‘Vegan’
What sounds like a primal, animalistic invitation to touch turns out to be an ironic yet heartbreaking cry for connection. The track starts small and almost shy, simmering with suppressed frustration before erupting into a raw energy where the pain relentlessly lingers.
Rosie reveals her most vulnerable side, though an impenetrable wall shields her deepest longings. She carries an intense energy, is uncomfortably honest, and constantly balances between bravado and self-sabotage.
If this doesn’t move you… you must be vegan.
Rosie’s mind is always racing over the smallest details, yet when it comes to her music, everything seems to flow with ease.
The Ghent-based, restless singer-songwriter writes raw songs in stark contrasts: 100 percent black and white, with no room for gray.
At times, she’s reminiscent of her mother, who carried the same fearless je m’en foutisme as a member of the Kortrijk cult band Midnight Men. Others hear shades of Sinéad O’Connor, PJ Harvey, or Patti Smith in Rosie’s striking voice.
With her three-piece band, Rosie doesn’t just confront the crowd. She takes on the walls around her, the world at large, and even herself.
“Even the rough demo of Vegan couldn’t hide the fact that Rosie Stuart has a rare combination of sharp self-awareness, punk attitude and undeniable class.”
- Wannes Cappelle (Het Zesde Metaal)

Rosie Stuart - Vegan (Official Visualizer)

Upcoming shows
11/10/2025: Sound Track @ De Casino - Sint-Niklaas (BE)
More dates TBA

Even voorstellen – Avenue Wagram – Paris

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Even voorstellen – Avenue Wagram – Paris
“Paris” is het eerste album van Avenue Wagram, een prestigieuze en mysterieuze naam die een duo van bekende muzikanten verbergt: pianist, toetsenist, componist en arrangeur Thierry Maillard, die het project heeft opgezet, en zijn oude medewerker, drummer Yoann Schmid. (Ilona records)

Even voorstellen – Joviale - Announces debut album, ‘Mount Crystal’

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Even voorstellen – Joviale - Announces debut album, ‘Mount Crystal’

Joviale - Announces debut album, ‘Mount Crystal’, out 12 September 2025 via Ghostly International
Aug 25 "HARK!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zsja6VD8Vw
Sept 25 "blu" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_GzILkIPP8

LIVE Nov 16 - Antwerp, Belgium – Trix

London-based multidisciplinary artist Joviale announces their debut full-length album, Mount Crystal, due September 12 2025 via Ghostly International.

Co-produced by Joviale with John Carroll Kirby, Jkarri, and Kwaku Konadu, Mount Crystal, is an ascendant, conceptual album. The songs are electric and soulful, dashed with jazzy experimentation, rhythmic rock, and vibrant sound design, all realised with a cast of collaborators including Sam Wilkes, Carter Lang, and Will Miller. Initially imagined as a play, Mount Crystal brims and bursts with life - peril, humour, and the buzz of the human spirit - conjuring a metaphysical climb that transcends the audio format. With plans to further manifest the vision as a live set and more, Joviale sets the course:
"Mount Crystal's lore is driven by the embodiment of desire, danger, and desperation. A mirrored dimension in a distant reality where nothing is left unsaid. These chapters crave to tear apart the illusion of pleasure by alchemising the unrelenting pain I've experienced in my efforts to love, deny, and embrace the sweetest melodies with the sweetest friends."

The album's second single, the super-charged centrepiece, "HARK!", crosses sinister funk with serene majesty. "Not even them mountains can stop you! Not even them angels can help you!" Joviale shouts into the horizon as records scratch, guitars solo, and voices shriek and laugh. The group leaned into an evil groove during its recording, where Michael Jackson's Thriller was a studio playlist staple. Joviale said about the track, "some things don't make sense, but we can still have fun in that uncertainty".

"HARK!" follows the release of the album's debut single, "Moonshine", which built to rhythmic bliss with James Mollison of Ezra Collective on saxophone, and previewed an electric, soulful, and jazzy new direction for Joviale.

Inspired by the comedic musical mastery of Prince's 1986 film Under the Cherry Moon and the offbeat surrealism of David Lynch's Twin Peaks, Joviale first saw Mount Crystal as a murder mystery, hypothetically casting each collaborator as a character in the story. Co-producer John Carroll Kirby (Steve Lacy, Frank Ocean, Solange, Kacey Musgraves) became the American cop investigator tracking a series of murders in a strange British hotel. Joviale and contributors Fabiana Palladino and Laura Groves are entertainers at the hotel; co-producer Joshua Gaskin-Brown, aka Jkarri (PinkPantheress, Nia Archives, Bel Cobain, Natanya), is the resident handyman always at work in the periphery, and so on. The loose framework immediately set a relaxed, anything-goes mentality to recording sessions spread over various makeshift studio set-ups, including Joviale's living room during a month-long stay in Barcelona. "We all have one thing in common, which is that we love to jam as musicians and love to have a stupid time and we will work from each other's houses," says Joviale. "In this trio with John and Joshua, I felt very much in the lead; they'd be like, 'we get it,' and that's because we were able to jam through it."

Joviale's personality reverberates across Mount Crystal's densely detailed world. They speak with swagger and sing skyward, cutting through rubbery basslines and angular strums, synthesised horns and harps, unruly beats, and unusual sound bites. The antithesis of background music, these songs leap from headphones much like an engrossing movie makes itself known on screen. Joviale's sonic references span Sade, Kate Bush, Janet Jackson, Todd Rundgren, '60s girl groups, Japanese composers, and "the freaky guys and girls and the divas of the '80s… glamorous rock'n'roll, Rick James, Prince, Quincy." Artists who prioritised playful ambition and bravado.

While set up as fictional abstractions, songs also reflect Joviale's lived-in experiences: broken-hearted letdowns, realisations, and the search for clarity and truth. Sequencing arcs upward and back down as if scaling its namesake. Lyrics detail dynamics between the self and others.

Beyond metaphorical mountains and murder mysteries, Joviale's debut album is a statement of artistic identity and purpose. A work that speaks to patience and collaborative ethos, surrendering oneself to music-making, and letting the process lead you somewhere new. Mount Crystal reveals itself as the pop record it's been reaching for. "We have come a long way," Joviale sings on the hand-clapped "Wishing"  - a second voice responds, "I go where I need to go" - and in that moment, in accord with their crew, Joviale confirms acceptance and the lesson learned, that life keeps going.

Mount Crystal album tracklist
The Mountain (intro)

Snow

Heavy

Crush

HARK!

Foul Play

Let Me Down

Moonshine

Both Ways

MC (intermission)

Beam

Blu

Disappear

Wishing

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