Every month, JustFocus tells you about the artists who have just started and whom we have fallen in love with. Here are the JustFocus musical discoveries of June 2018!
This year, we are getting a makeover and we have decided to create new sections of which this monthly article is a part. It will allow us to make you discover very young artists, fresh, who just have a single or an EP to their credit or are about to release an album. We have not spoken to you yet and their news may still be discreet … But we're dying to share them with you!
Canek presents: Kwamie Liv
Kwamie Liv was first discovered by a stunned audience at the Pitchfork Festival in Paris where she performed her song 5 AM from her EP titled Lost In The Girl. The singer's soft and sensual voice with varied influences, including music from Denmark, Turkey, Zambia, South Africa and Ireland, prepared the singer for the release of her debut studio album Lovers that Come and Go "This new project, my first album, required more thought. I needed more time and space to make it come alive. I didn't choose to take a four-year break: it was just necessary. I needed that time," she told Konbini.com.
And it is the song Follow My Heart that really becomes the foretaste of the album. With a very minimalist production and keeping the sensuality of the singer's voice, Kwamie Liv gives way to the pure fragility of heartache "But if I call you up one time late night when I get high, will you come pick me up or tell me find another ride?" (But if I call you once in the late evening, will you pick me up or tell me to find another route?). Kwamie Liv is proof that simplicity is a great ingredient to make room for intimacy and talent.
Noucky Zan presents: Korgelt
It's been a long time since we came across a Trip Hop artist and when it happens it feels good. Korgelt is a Franco-Albanian artist, producer of chill music that passes by itself, carried by the super pleasant soul voice of Mariza Ikonomi.
Guitars and violins punctuate everything wonderfully well giving this music an aspect either more rock or more pop, or more folk. It is on the title Got A Broken Heart that you discovered them and by exploring the soundcloud of Musigamy (we also find with pleasure the group Why Elephant on this account, which we had discovered last year, we came across other titles of the same genre like Dont' Hesitate and I Miss Your Sound featuring Elsa Kopf or We Were Lovers again with Mariza Ikonomi. We loved the presence of the violin which gives a traditional side to the pieces.
This music is perfect to punctuate your journeys, to relax on your way home from work or to share in the evening with your friends.
Emma Da Palma presents: Tessa Violet
We tell you about it in the playlist of the editorial #110, Tessa Violet is also one of our discoveries of this month. Connoisseurs will tell us that we are a little late, the young American will release her second album on August 3rd! Since 2007 she also runs her own Youtube channel, between blog videos and musical creations, Tessa Violet surrounds herself with other artists like Dodie.
Coming from a generation of versatile artists, it is not surprising to see the care she puts into her clips and her aesthetic. The video for Crush, directed by Jordan Harms & Isaac White, is the perfect example: fun, colorful, dynamic. The sound of Tessa Violet has something simple but most effective: an almost childlike melody and a light voice.
Crush is to listen without moderation, and the most curious will be able to listen to Haze, another single released 1 year ago, and which already has more than a million views on Youtube.
