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Bastien Pons & Frank Zozky deliver a broken mantra in motion with “Black Clouds” music video
Bastien Pons doesn’t compose tunes but constructs mental landscapes. “BLACK CLOUDS” is the new single and video of Bastien Pons with Frank Zozky, taken from Pons’ debut album “BLINDED,” which sounds more like a weather system. Finding itself, as other tracks on the album do, in a self-contained environment, “Black Clouds” is introduced explicitly by the artist as simply a broken mantra.
Constructed from the same toolset that characterizes “BLINDED,” field recordings, processed textures, drones, traces of distorted vocals, and deliberate ambient decay, the single rests within the tradition of musique concrète but pushes back against the dryness that term may connote with academia. The rigor of the build suggests Pons’ apprenticeship with Bernard Fort, though the emotional heft in the work is unsterilized, unsealed, and openly permeable.
The video provides a visual continuation of that strategy. Pons is a practitioner of black-and-white photography, and that discipline comes through in “Black Clouds,” which feels like black-and-white film developed over time, in which contrast supplants narrative and erosion supplants plot.
As a fragment of “BLINDED,” a provocative seven-track dig into perception, memory, and the emotional burden of silence, “Black Clouds“ plays like a thesis sentence. It articulates the record’s central wager that environments can speak, that silence has architecture, and that the most human truths come not as melodies but atmospheres that won’t resolve, no matter how desperately you might want them to.
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Eylsia calls for voices to rise and shine on latest release “We Outshine”
Eylsia‘s latest release, “We Outshine” is a message about taking back your voice, your confidence, and your space in the world. “The song is a message to anyone who’s ever been knocked down, held down or had their voice covered up. That’s not the story, the story is not that, it’s Eylsia, “It’s about standing up. No retreat.
“We Outshine” is rooted in the spirit of the collective. The song isn’t just about a personal struggle for motivation, but it is also a call for a generation to “rise and shine,” believing that every person has a story that can ignite the fire. That feeling of being together is what makes the song meaningful. This is for the ones who know what it feels like to keep going when others have tried to dim your light.
Eylsia flips the song on its head with a simple yet powerful notion: setbacks are not the end of the story. ‘We Outshine’ is a song about unity. It’s about getting back what was taken from you. It’s about making your story worth living for. The song’s point is clear: stick together. This song is about bravery, about being seen and standing together.
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Stephanie Phillip faces life’s hardest unknowns on latest release “Try As We Might”
“Try As We Might” by Stephanie Phillip is a song of deeply personal emotional tension, written during a precarious time when two life-changing experiences were happening at once. Her brother is dying of cancer, and plans are made to marry her love, now her 2nd husband. The song exists in the space between love, fear, hope, and the unknown. The feeling underneath it is not knowing what’s next, even when life seems to be asking for it.
“Try As We Might” is about “Walking the Tightrope,” an image that preludes an emotional journey of joy and pain side by side. The song is about wanting to “see around a corner,” but life doesn’t offer that kind of certainty. This contrast gives the track its human weight, because the feeling isn’t presented as something easily solved.
Stephanie Phillip’s song is about living in a moment that won’t be easy. The tension of preparing for marriage and the possible loss of a brother is a powerful emotional setting. That tension gives “Try As We Might” its meaning. This is not a song of certainty. This is a song about the unknown and what it takes to keep going in that.
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