Three of today's most distinctive artists shaping hazy, experimental worlds of minimal electronics, voice and ambient poetics. All tipped throughout many of 2025’s end-of-year lists.
Essential listening for ya ears!
The Secret Shade
& Strange Brew presents
feeo [AD 93]
Ugnė Uma [Somewhere Press]
Radio Hito [Maple Death / Meakusma]
Friday 20th February, 7pm until 10pm.
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feeo |
@_feeo_
feeo's debut album Goodness on
@ad93rec was voted as one of the best electronic albums of 2025 by Pitchfork. The incredibly intricate and beautiful body of work is an impressionistic mix of emotive and expansive sounds, improvisation and minimalist dance music. The record is illuminated by striking vocals and poetic language, shifting fluidly between forms and voices. Outside of feeo, Laird is one half of Crosspiece with bassist
@caiuswilliams_ and a member of the GRAIN Residency.
Ugnė Uma |
@ugneuma
Ugnė Uma is an out-of-tune chamber piano. It’s a clear, slowed-down voice. Snippets of radio cut with pinking shears and a piano pedal that yawns. A disjointed, sacred, loving experiment of RnB, in the greatest simplicity - ‘Big city folklore from the siren with the loose fit jeans’.
Ugnė Uma draws from poetry and Lithuania’s 20th-century underground jazz and folk scenes, emerging alongside the country’s independence movements. She's collaborated with saxophonist Sam Gendel on the
@meakusma label and most recently, she released her first solo 7" on Glasgow label
@somewhere.press - a smoky, dim-lit record that sold out instantly on Boomkat, following a later repress selling out on Bandcamp.
Radio Hito |
@radio_hito
Radio Hito is the musical project of Belgium-based composer, writer and artist Zen My Nguyen. She makes quietly captivating music built around soft electronics, piano and voice with italophone lyrics. Her songs feel intimate and understated, blending simple melodies with poetic lyrics and subtle repetition, sitting somewhere between experimental and ambient songwriting.
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Artwork by
@fem.kecampbell
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