Most music that arrives with the label “meditative” feels like an instruction to relax—a gentle but firm command. Karen Salicath Jamali’s “Angel Gabriel’s Light,” however, doesn’t instruct; it simply arrives. Listening to this single for the first time is like walking into a room to find the light has changed color, subtly and without explanation. You don’t question how it happened. You just stand...

With his globe-trotting new EP "Level Up", Recife-born producer and artist Krey Galin treats personal triumph as an open-source frequency meant to cross borders without passport control. Operating between Brazil and the United States under Elemental Entertainment Inc., Galin assembles an international circle of songwriters and studio collaborators to map out a single, unyielding obsession: the intoxicating certainty that you are bound for greatness,...