Your Cup of Tea: Ambient, Poignant and Soulful Music Best Enjoyed with a Cup of Tea and in Cosy Atmosphere

carpe carmina playlist I - Ambience 

Suno Deko - Bluets 
Artist: Atlanta based experimental-pop project Suno Deko,

 also known as David Courtright

Song: 'Bluets' - experimental-pop magic 

A creative musical mind expands your auditory experience by designing and shaping artful, ethereal and dense sonic soundscapes to be engulfed in. Poetry and music combined in a modest but intriguing manner, Suno Deko presents a resfreshing, intelligent approach to composing that manifests in his bracing and mellow pieces of tonal artistry. 'Bluets', a calm nonetheless vibrant beaut on its own, is wrapped in an airy and lively, multi-layered melodic guise, flows rhythmically and with sweeping ease, showcases bright, briskly yearning vocals of dreamy and haunting echo - and easily delights to the core.  Subtle pop music dreams do come true here. 

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The Marbles Jackson - No More Feeling Like 
Artist: London based 4-piece lo-fi alternative rock outfit 
The Marbles Jackson
Song: 'No More Feeling Like' - blossoming, 
balmy shoegaze sound

Rawly, distantly reverberating and seemingly vague instrumental gimmicks add to the genuine compositional charm of 'No More Feeling Like' that derives from languorous vastness and celestial, tenuously soaking-in atmosphere in sound. With smoothly lulling, sensitive vocals of piercing timbric colour and at times rousing, at times receeding melodic dynamics, a feeling of blissful flair and comforting but fragile tranquility is conveyed and there to linger alongside with a firmer grasp of what balanced and expansive dreamy pop music should sound like. 
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Johnny Sand - I Am The Ocean (demo)
Artist: Liverpool based singer/songwriter 
(and music promoter!) Johnny Sands

Song: 'I am The Ocean' (demo) - guitar-driven and 

poetically longing acoustic splendor

Passionately struck chords of vivace spirit and smooth resonance dictate the rhythm, whilst strong and soulful vocals of ear-pleasing, impressive volume and poignant expressivity breathe soul into the laid-back but emotionally stirring compositional current that is 'I Am The Ocean' (demo).

An inspiring and mellifluous musical fusion of electronic ludic drive and velvet melodic tenderness, however, is provided with 'Arno Arno', yet to be released on the singer/songwriter's forthcoming album. Following Johnny Sands' venturous musical roaming, it shows with shiny radiance and clarity that the singer/songwriter merges what is meant to be together: heart-rending, keen lyricism and acoustic verve with a well-placed hint of invigorating electronic stimulus. 

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 The Room - Here 

Artist: London based alternative-R'n'B duo

Song: 'Here' - a powerful, gloomy and emotive ballad

A story of heartbreak and romantic melancholia with a slight tendency to second chances is musically reflected in 'Here': bluesy, blue and sentimental vocals full of vigor and soul coalesce with heavenly soothing and beautiful piano melodies, harmonize with an additional deeply raucous yet silken vocal layer and capture with opulent emotion and compelling vitality. 
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Static In Verona - Black Windows

Artist: Chicago based indie-pop virtuoso Rob Merz,
also known as Static in Verona

Song: 'Black Windows' - Infectious and ludic musical

 consonance with a classical appeal

Anthemic and lucent music-making is bestowed on the listener with 'Black Windows' - ostentatious and eventful instrumental arrangements, alternating in rhythm and focus, invite with cadenced, bouncy percussions, with an opaque bass line and an abudant and atmospheric horn section, beyond glowing and vivaciously sprawling vocals to indulge in an Owl City reminiscent composition rich in harmony and mirth despite its rather dark lyrical narrations. 
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Static In Verona's musicis available to purchase on Itunes & the likes. 

Little Dusty - To The Vale 

Artist: Bristol based, female fronted acoustic 
folk-pop foursome Little Dusty

Song: 'To The Vale' - soul-stirring and wistful folk music

'To The Vale' enchants its audience with delicate and tender, charmingly melting vocalism, accompanied by placid still buzzy, nimbly executed acoustic guitar ambience and evokes imaginative scenes of a lover waiting for his regretful darling to come home on a warm, colourful and cosy autumn day that brims over with melancholic memories.  
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the reads - Schnitzler 
Artist: 6-piece alternative rock outfit the reads hailing from the 
North of Wales and Cheshire

Song: 'Schnitzler' - imbuing and tenebrous yet dreamful musical balm

A moody, cloudy and dense spectrum of sound unfurls with 'Schnitzler', skilfully deployed to complement Clare's dim, low-key nonetheless strongly urgent vocals. Hollow, languid still dynamically driven drum beats set the tone whilst dainty and elusively swerving melodic patterns deepen the overall atmospheric sound of the song. Proper eclectic and gripping music of both mild and tense fluency. 
Reach out & listen to the reads on ...

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The Retrospectives - Insane 

Artist: Sheffield based 3-piece indie rock outfit 

The Retrospectives

Song: 'Insane' - expressive and calmly rousing

 rock glamour

Breathy, soulfully rasping and settled vocals are embedded in a serene, yet vividly pulsating field of sound: the apollonian, reserved melodic setting of 'Insane' grows, enhances with orotund, insistent drum beats, glows through cautiously clangorous cymbal accents and steady, reverberative percussions to eventually rise with incisively fiery, sweeping guitar hooks that catch the listeners' attention with a subtly dashing might hard to resist. Modern pop-rock of tranquil nonchalance. 

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Esco Williams - Oh Jordan

Artist: Liverpool based singer/songwriter and 6th member of MicLowry, 
Esco Williams

Song: 'Oh Jordan' - an emotive and glowing soul anthem 

Comforting lyrics full of hope and sentiment are confidently heralded by copious, soothing vocals reaching timbric peaks beyond listeners' expectation and their very hearts at once. Add elysian, gently floating and ardently gleaming harmonies as well as entrancing, symphonious piano play to the enticing compositional scope of 'Oh Jordan' and you're close to or already at the point of a glorious musical epiphany. 

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Check on his band project MicLowry here. 

Huw - Lilly Lee 


Artist: Bristol based singer/songwriter 
Edward Thomas, also known as Huw

Song: 'Lilly Lee' - a moanful and fierily longing folk blues gem

An atmospheric and vibrant melodic scenery chimes with inviting and heartfelt narrative sensitivity, grips with fervent and vigorous vocals brimful of both poignant nostalgia and sorrowful bitterness. Faint but radiantly clear instrumental drops and deep-toned, monotonous vocal humming enrich the - graced with spirited, evocative chords and a wistfully engrossing string section episode - already scenic sound of 'Lilly Lee'. 

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Race to the sea - Kingdom to Come 

Artist: Manchester based multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Dan Peacock 
(Race to the sea)

Song: 'Kingdom To Come' - ambient shoegaze -folk blend

'Kingdom To Come' lets its ambient and ethereal surges of sound slide to the listeners' ears, serenely, confidently governed by a mild gush of warm, smooth vocals rich in yearning sentiment and husky timbre. Haunting and alluring acoustic guitar serenades spellbind like sirens of the sea, whilst rhythmic and resonantly, softly struck percussions raise the listener out of his balmy, elusive yet - given the composition's harmonious and idyllic, breezy sound - more than welcome 'music trance', with steady, imbuing vibrance.

Reach out & listen to Race to the sea  on ...

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... his official website ..
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... bandcamp ..