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Ibeyi featuring Pa Salieu mesmerizing new track "Made of Gold"

The fascinating duo Ibeyi has worked in collaboration with the amazing mind of Daniel Sannwald to bring to life their incredibly mesmerizing new song "Made of Gold"

Listen to the song on all streaming platforms, out now under XL recordings : https://ibeyi.ffm.to/madeofgold

In between fire & ice, the visuals of the music video offers stunning and breath taking back and forth in this magical world straight out of the creative mind of Daniel Sannwald and his team.

Creative director Theo White and director of photography Jeremy Valender, have succeeded to put into images, this feeling from this incredible song, than none other than Sannwald could have pull off together ! A masterpiece !

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Spotlight On: Yves Tumor, The David Bowie From The Future

Yves Tumor is back with a new single called "Jackie", the Alternative avant-grade artist is Atout Major's artist spotlight of June! Discover his discography, three albums to date, and a new on the way, Yves has a strong visual artist presence with a mix of Alternative, Rock n' Roll, Experimental and Avant-garde, He will for sure remind you of David Bowie, which for a fun fact, Yves' real name is Sean Bowie.

The ecliptic music video for Jackie was directed by creative director company 'Actual Objects' and directed by Rick Farin & Claire Cochran for a stunning and mesmerizing result.

A few months ago Yves released the music video for another song, "Kerosene!" from his latest album "Heaven To A Tortured Mind" which was directed by talented Cody Critcheloe from SSION, video produced by Megan Mantia x Mooj Productions and Alex Gvojic as director of photography. A team work that resulted into this masterpiece of an avant-garde music video that you MUST watch !

‘Jackie‘ by Yves Tumor, out now Warp Records. Stream / Download now → https://yves-tumor.ffm.to/jackie.yd

Listen to Yves Tumor on spotify

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Baby Storme New Single Goes Rock! "POM POM"

After going viral on the platform TikTok literally the first week of January of this year with her song "JACKSON" after making a video where she recorded her dad react to JACKSON, and his priceless confused reaction made it around the world.

Four months later, Baby Storme is back with a rock n' roll anthem called "POM POM". Storme is ready to show that she is the next big hit girl and wants to bring back rock n' roll by females to the trend!

Baby Storme definitely had the right intuition has it seems rock n' roll is making a come back lately, from Miley Cyrus to now Willow Smith who just released "transparent soul".

If you haven't yet, it is the time for you to discover the very promising Baby Storme!

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Willow Smith Show The Colors Of Her Next Project With "t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l"

Willow Smith is back with a new world ready to unleash, the 20 years old singer channels her inner rock n' roll spirit with this new song in featuring with Travis Barker.

This video, a visual performance , show inspiration to Janet Jackson and the early 2000's / 90's.

Willow shared with the song her excitement to start this new journey, "LET'S THE VIBES COMMENCE". Willow, we all are ready and can't wait for what's to come!

Streaming options for "t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l" https://willow.lnk.to/TSoul

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Kalderone Releases A New Piano Ballad "Ready Now"

Kalderone releases his first full song called "Ready Now". The song claim acceptance towards his artistry and how he worked hard to finally be ready to "unveil the veil on his voice" as he poetically sing.

The track is accompanied with an audio visualizer with earth footage from space, fitting his previous aesthetic.

The lyrics poetry reflects on himself, hiding his voice because of his never satisfied perfectionism, and also claims how he is made to make music as melodies and lyrics comes to him "like a symphony, so easily".

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Black is King, the movie by Beyonce is out TODAY on Disney+ and a new video for ‘Already’ with Shatta Wale and Major Lazer !

One year after the success of the live-action The Lion King, Beyoncé signs Black is King for Disney +. The feature film, online on July 31, features the album The Gift and promises a visual and emotional slap not to be missed.

Beyoncé has premiered the video for ‘Already’ her collaboration with Ghanian artist Shatta Wale and Major Lazer, taken from the 2019 album ‘The Lion King: The Gift’

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The Weeknd just released an animated music video for “Snowchild”

This year, The Weeknd is on the top of his popularity. He came back stronger than ever with his new album After Hours, his album got instantely a big worldwide success. 

After Hours, carried by Blinding Lights which is, no doubt one of the best hits at this days.

The canadien singer is determined to carry and promote his project as longer as possible by restarting the music videos productions. He decide to spotlight Snowchild with an animated music video directed by Arthell Isom from D’ART Shtajio Studios.

We can see on it Abel, The Weeknd’s alter-ego, retrace metaphorically the artist’s life.

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Efe, A 20 Years Old Artist Goes Viral On Twitter With Stunning Digital Paintings

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July 21, 2020

Twitter becomes each day a better place to discover amazing art. Recently the 20 years old multi talented artist _@efroghne saw her mention blow up after sharing a digital painting of _James Acai, an amazing aesthetic photographer that you should definitely discover too if you didn’t knew him yet!

“My journey with art has been so long that I don’t remember when it began. Until sixth form none of my school books was without the scribbles of my teachers, an instruction to stop doodling in the margins. I’ve kept all my sketchbooks and seeing the improvement makes me smile because I really thought I was doing something back then. Practice might just get you very close to perfect.“ [Efe via her blog]

Efe’s work features drawings, digital art, paintings and photography, check out her impressive portfolio here, where you can also purchase prints: www.byefe.co.uk

And keep up with her work on instagram, Efe is most definitely in the beginning of a bright future coming ahead of her! instagram.com/artbyefe

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Kyle Thompson’s Second Book; “Sinking Ship”

The world famous digital photographer who got discovered mainly on Flickr for his 365 challenge back in 2012, has released this year his second photography book. After the success of his first self-published 2014 book “Somewhere Else” that was funded thanks to his supporters via crowd founding, Thompson is back after a few years of silence.

In Sinking Ship, Kyle Thompson investigates the potential history of a locational muse, a now-deserted town in the American grasslands. Through an investigative study of the remaining objects, and a correspondence with those now living alone in similarly abandoned towns, Thompson creates a series of self portraits forming potential moments of the towns past using the objects left behind.

The book contains 120 pages and is for sale on the young photographer’s official shop, including also a limited edition signed copy with a booklet 

Find the book here: www.shop.kylethompsonphotography.com

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Photographer Spotlight:  Viviane Sassen

Sassen is a dutch artist living in Amsterdam. She is a fashion and fine art photographer born in 1972.

Someof her most known photographs are probably “D.N.A” from her 2007 series “Flamboya”

And “Victoria”(2005) from the same series.

Sassen lived in Kenya as a child and often works in Africa. She started studying fashion at Arnhem, but soon turned to photography. She received her MFA from Royal Academy in Arnhem. [Wikipedia]

Find more of her work on her official website www.vivianesassen.com

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Tinashe is Back With “Rascal” Music Video

The american singer released on the 17th of July 2020 her new music video for her single “Rascal (Superstar)” in a colorful and camp video directed by Jasper Soloff and the Dreambear production company.

In the mean time for more informations from Tinashe, and her next album, the song is available everywhere to stream and download: tinashe.co/rascal

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Kalderone, A Surreal and Abstract Universe

Kalderone is a fine art, abstract, fashion photographer from France, born in 1994, the versatile artist is also a videographer creating his visions and dreams an expressing them also in music. The multi talented creator takes you in his unique fantastic world. Visit is portfolio down below;

www.kalderone.com

The young photographer ‘s world features loneliness and abstract surrealism, often in black and white, his particular universe is unique to him.

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Arca’s “Time”, the second single from KiCk i, is a synthpop, electropop ballad about the struggle and process to achieve your goals. Through endless reverb and waves of shimmery synthesizers, Arca soothes the listener and reminds them that, as long as you work hard and persevere, your dreams will come true with time. [genius]

The psychedelic and hypnotic, devilish music video, his worth the watch. Based on a scene by Carlos Sáez - who’s starring as Ángel Toni -  and directed by MANSON Produced by Other Half Creative.

KiCk i is available now on XL Recordings: https://arca.ffm.to/KiCki

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“ Queer LA-based electronic artist Saro unleashes his innermost thoughts  and emotions in the vulnerable track “Please." Saro’s signature dark sound that was present in his previous EPs, In Loving Memory and Boy Afraid, persists in this new single and its music video. “  [billboard]

Los Angeles based artist Saro latest music video for his hit song “Please” unveil a surreal and interrogative world.