Marina Maximilian Blumin, better known by her stage name Marina Maximilian, is a performer from Israel who specialises in singing, songwriting and acting. She competed in the fifth season of the reality music competition programme Kokhav Nolad and finished in second place overall. https://soundcloud.com/marinamaximilian/lord-save-me-acoustic At the age of fifteen, Blumin performed in Hanoch Levin's play Requiem at the Cameri Theater. Two years later, at the age of...

Silja Rós sends us “Letters from my past,” and it’s as if one has been handed a velvet pouch of smoothed sea glass, each piece a shard of memory polished by time. Listening feels like sorting through them, the Icelandic musician’s neo-soul and pop songwriting unfurling narratives from what must be deeply personal old diaries. There’s an intimacy here akin to deciphering faded ink...