Tag: Seishin Takeno Echoes

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...

Battling Inner Wars: T-RAN Drops “Don’t Stop the Fight”

Listening to T-RAN and his new single "Don’t Stop the Fight" creates the sensation of finding a frantic heartbeat returning to a steady, confident rhythm after a near-miss on the highway. There is an immediate urgency here, a sonic landscape that refuses to sit politely in the background. https://open.spotify.com/track/7BAbhLJoHZYcwAMH6BvnhV?si=1d371859cf294456 The production fits the moniker of "gospel firestarter" perfectly, though perhaps not in the way you’d expect...

My Head Isn’t Empty, It’s Full of Seishin Takeno’s “Echoes”

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...