Tag: AriSawkaDoria unveils new music titled Naima

Salatiel Reinvents A Classic With The “Weekend Amapiano (Remix)”

There is something deeply satisfying about hearing a song you already love wearing an entirely new set of clothes. Salatiel, the Cameroonian hitmaker and founder of Alpha Better Records, has taken his 2018 fan favourite "Weekend" and rebuilt it from the ground up with an Amapiano pulse. The "Weekend Amapiano Remix" feels like a conversation between two eras of African music, one rooted in the Afrobeat...

“Loneliest at Best”: RIOT SON’s Agony of Unsaid Words.

Listening to RIOT SON’s new single, “Loneliest at Best,” is a curious exercise in emotional time-travel. The sound pulls you back to the early 2000s, to a time of angular guitars and heartfelt, frayed-collar vocals. It has that nervous, shimmering energy of indie rock that always sounded best on a pair of wired headphones, the beat prodding you forward even as the lyrics confess...

“Naima” Notes: AriSawkaDoria’s Jazzy Incantation

AriSawkaDoria. The name alone sounds like an incantation, a summoning of something… interesting. This trio—KJ Sawka, he of Pendulum and Destroid percussive prowess, Joe...