Seishin Takeno's "Echoes," a sonic postcard from Kanagawa. Nine instrumental pieces, I've been told. Not nine songs, mind you – more like nine shaded windows into a particular kind of quiet. This isn't music that yells; it leans in, like a friend confiding a secret you half-hear on a summer porch. Immediately, you're not so much listening as remembering. Or maybe anticipating. It feels...

Leïla is a singer, songwriter, and composer who hails from Canada and France and now resides in Paris. Leïla is now making a powerful return with two new songs, "Histoire D'amour" and "Masquerade of Paradise" in which we will hear a new, more mature, more confirmed version of the singer. Her one-of-a-kind approach weaves both poetic skill and more modern sounds, including elements of pop and...