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MYTRIZA - MOTION - Official Video

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This segment features artists who have submitted their tracks/videos to She Makes Music. If you would like to be featured here then please send an e-mail to helen@shemakesmusic.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you!

Xena Glas

Xena Glas is a creator attempting to explore new areas of the artistic world and unravel her human experience through her work. Interested in art of all forms including music, visual art, and poetry, Xena loves experimenting, pushing boundaries, and creating interdisciplinary and thought provoking art. Her music flows through different styles including experimental electronica and indie folk. Often, she finds inspiration in causes dear to her, including mental health, autism, sexuality, and human rights. Her influences and favorite artists include Moses Sumney, Burial, James Blake, Haley Heynderickx, and Lianne La Havas. Her EP Body is out now. "My EP Body describes my experience as a woman with autism, each track dedicated to a different body part and portraying my unique experience with the world,” says Xena. “The title track describes reclaiming my body from objectification and victimization from society and using it as my own source of creativity." Listen below.

Xena Glas · Body

Riches

Intercontinental collaborators, Catherine McCandless and Wynn Holmes, are welcoming 2022 with the release of their second song featuring production from Dan Lissvik (Studio/Atelje). ‘Light Of Dawn’ uses the metaphor of a maypole dance to bring sunlight and celebration into the repetitive and insular routines of our pandemic lives. A child-like, desirous, and imaginative voice sings above pastoral folk, harmonizing with Riches darkness. This song serenades the wash of the creative headspace over the lost and meaningless one. The duo say of the song: "'Light Of Dawn' began as deeply, classically folk, it's lyrics of utter devotion creating a tone that was quite romantic. We sought a discordant tone, achieved by pitching the vocals into a child-like voice, which added an element of darkness to the sweetness of this track. We hope that you enjoy its transcendence." Listen below.

Riches · Light of Dawn

MYTRIZA

Stockholm-based musician MYTRIZA discovers her songs by going through portals to theor worlds. She weaves together electronic dance elements with choir, world instruments and cinematic flavours, with imagery from nature, fairytales, myths and long forgotten magic. A true selfmade artist, she creates and engineers everything herself, and she playfully combines different art forms into a limitless and unique expression. She has just dropped her new single 'Lavender'. 'Lavender' is an eclectic eletro-pop track with ethereal vocals, deep bass and big synths. Her debut single 'Motion' and now 'Lavender' are the first two songs from her upcoming album State of Wonder which will be released later this year. Listen to ‘Lavender’ below.

MYTRIZA · Lavender

Mear

Mear is an indie pop collaboration between singer-songwriter Frances Miller and electronic composer Greg Harrison. Together their music combines catchy melodies and poignant lyrics with their shared love of experimental music. “In 2014, I lost the ability to do a lot of things I'd previously taken for granted,” explains Frances. “I wrote ‘The Order’ during my early experiences living with a post-viral chronic illness, at a time when I was grieving the loss of my health. I found I couldn't read for more than a few minutes a day and a short walk around the block could leave me bedridden. ‘The Order’ was an attempt to voice some of the pain and loneliness of that; of not understanding what was happening to me. This single is from our upcoming full-length album, which will be released on April 22. Being diagnosed with a chronic illness is often a long and painful journey full of misdiagnosis and gaslighting, "when nothing's right and nothing's wrong." The song's title is a reference to the loss of control that comes with no longer being able to count on your body.” Listen below.

Mear · The Order

Lou Mclean

Lou Mclean has released her new single ‘Shelf Life’. It marks a fresh musical direction for the singer-songwriter. Gone are the confessional folky ballads of last year’s ‘Locked Down in Leith’: ’Shelf Life’ is a blast of perfect, political pop. In a collaboration with production by Berta Kennedy, Lou tells a story of glossy objectification through a riot grrl pop lense. This song is representative of the emerging sound of ScotPop: fresh, feminist and fun. “Lockdown really allowed me to develop as an artist, and find a network of women in Scotland outside of my own scene, through groups like PopGirlz Scotland,” she says. “The concept for the song came from a writing prompt set out in the GRS SongCircle” (Mclean co-founded the venture with Lorraine Rahmani in 2017). In a space of women and non-binary songwriters, we get to be completely, authentically ourselves. We don’t have to soften our experiences, debate our existence or creativity.”Listen to ‘Shelf Life’ below.

Ex-Nemesis

Based in south-east London, UK, Ex-Nemesis is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter and producer marrying pop, rock and indie influences. Her desire to stay anonymous has allowed her to delve deep into the joys and anxieties of navigating your late teens/early 20s in this day and age. After years of recording demos on GarageBand then Logic Pro X in her bedroom, she has decided to start sharing her musical journey with the world. ‘Lessons’ is her debut single, out now. “I started writing 'Lessons' in June 2020 as my birthday was approaching and I was reflecting on the last few years,” says the artist. “'Lessons' is about feeling behind in life. Feeling like everyone your age is moving on with their lives but you are still stuck in the same place. But it isn’t meant to be a sad song. More of an acceptance of a flawed past and the celebration of a hopeful future. You can’t go back in time, so you might as well forgive yourself for the mistakes you've made.” Listen below.

Ex-Nemesis · Ex-Nemesis - Lessons

ASHERAH

ASHERAH is the electronic pop alias of Miami-based singer, songwriter, producer, and composer, Ariel Morer. Produced in collaboration with left-field electronic music composer, Medulasa, ASHERAH’s debut EP, Ephemeral, is a coalescence of unexpected creative forces telling a highly personal tale of the grief process, through shimmering echoic sound design and haunting vocals with nods to Purity Ring, Lights, and Grimes. ASHERAH’s debut single, ‘Holy,’ is out now and her subsequent EP, Ephemeral, is due out March 11, with cover art by 3D artist Mea Adoryan. Listen to ‘Holy’ below.

Allie Lune

Allie Lune is a Spanish-Colombian multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter whose poetic musings have a wholesome and youthful charm. She began writing music as a young teenager, experimenting with her self-taught guitar skills and exploring the world of putting together poetry and sound. Having developed her musical abilities since her days of writing soft songs in her bedroom in southern Spain, Allie’s heartfelt lyric writing and sweet, memorable melodies are nothing short of captivating. She aims to reach her listeners’ hearts through her music, encapsulating the hardships of becoming an adult but without taking herself or the world around her too seriously. Born in the UK and raised in a multicultural household, Allie’s inspiration can be found in a number of different artists, such as George Harrison, Natalia Lafourcade and Cariño. She is most heavily influenced by the indie popscene in Spain, as her own music sits happily in  the ‘tontipop’ genre. She writes in both English and Spanish. Allie’s debut single, titled ‘all the things i would do’, is out now. This song offers warmth and optimism and is sure to resonate with anyone who has been in love. Written in late 2019, it illustrates the honeymoon phase of a relationship with lighthearted and witty lyrics as well as a catchy melody. Listen below.

Nikkita

Hailing from the suburbs of Perth, budding artist Nikkita brings a raw sense of honesty to the pop EDM landscape with her debut single ‘Looking Up,’ out now. Toeing the line between somber storytelling and anthemic banger, ‘Looking Up’ feels like the song we all need when the difficult edges of aloneness set in. Borrowing from the influences of Flume, Vera Blue and Alison Wonderland, Nikkita wraps her heartfelt words in the heavy undulating synths and thudding beats of future bass. It is chaotic, yet uplifting, countering muted isolation with an air of hopeful defiance. It is a song you can both walk listlessly to and lose yourself dancing to. Recorded between Viking Studios and Grove Studios, Nikkita spent a year trying to unlock the true sound of her debut single before collaborating with Izaac Wilson (DZ Deathrays, Tia Gostelow, Chillinit, Huskii). Nikkita's melodic brilliance and Izaac's unique textures and tones combined to unleash a brooding dance track that builds to euphoria. The results are simply spellbinding. Listen to ‘Looking Up’ below.

Nikkita · Looking Up [Debut Single] - Nikkita

Putrika

Following the success of her first single release, Jakarta-born and raised, Sydney-based Alt-Soul Electronica music producer, singer and songwriter Putrika, is thrilled to release her second single ‘Rain On Tuesday’. It is a song about slowing down when you are moving fast. “’Rain on Tuesday’ was created on a rainy Tuesday morning during lockdown last year in my home studio in Sydney, Australia. Growing up in a big city like Jakarta and currently living in Sydney, there is always an urge to move fast. This song is about appreciating the time and learning how to slow down”, Putrika explains. ‘Rain on Tuesday’ is a combination of multi-layered synths, percussive and groovy beats, ambient soundscapes combined with soulful vocals. Listen below.

Putrika · Rain on Tuesday

Check out more of our latest submissions in the playlist below!