Tag: AriSawkaDoria with Naima

“Unforgiven”: Sophia Mengrosso’s Operatic War Cry.

Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

Asake – Basquiat (Official Video)

YBNL Nation and EMPIRE signed act, Asake is out with yet another captivating music video and it is to his song dubbed "Basquiat" off his recently released "Work of Art" album. Watch the video shot and directed by Joshua Valle and Edgar Steves below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjeoG7VcOB4

“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...