On a sunny, early summer’s day in 2020 – the first summer season of the pandemic – author Roy Freirich drove from his home in Malibu, California, to his local post office to mail a book to his Faroese musician friend Teitur. But when he arrived and a postal worker informed him of the astronomical cost of shipping the book halfway around the world, he decided against it and drove home again – book-in-hand.

A different, more budget-friendly form of correspondence would continue between the two creative minds, involving the author sharing his life experiences during the pandemic. Passages from the emails were mined and refined by Teitur, who crafted them into lyrics and used them as inspiration for the music he wrote for the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra on their new collaborative album, SONGS FROM A SOCIAL DISTANCE. The writing process began in the tumultuous year of 2020, reflecting the then-current state of things – the first summer of the corona pandemic raging along with all of its frustrations, fears, insecurities, rules, and insistence to keep a social distance.

On SONGS FROM A SOCIAL DISTANCE, the music for voice and big band revolves around the frustrations and bumps in the road that arose in what should have been just another trip to the post office.

Out now on LP, CD and DL:

Mondmann, a German producer of electronic music recently released this beautiful new song called 'Into Your Arms'.

New York City based synthesist-songwriter Jay Wires dials up catchy electropop infused with human emotion & synthpop art with a human heart. With a long history of dealing vintage synths to rockstars, Jay Wires finally started releasing music of his own in August 2022 through Yes Trigger Music.

‘Don’t Say Goodbye’ is a true story about being ghosted by a narcissist during the isolation and loneliness of COVID lockdown, cleverly disguised as an upbeat synthpop ditty that’s been compared to Yazoo and The Postal Service.

Two of the best names in synthwave, Arcade High and Syst3m Glitch, come together with radically different remixes of Up All Night by Moonrunner83 and Matthew Clanton.

Fleetwood Mac's timeless anthem of love and regret, "Dreams" is reinvigorated for a whole new generation of listeners in the latest single from Pop/Retrowave act Valley Lights. Like The Weeknd and Dua Lipa, Valley Lights explores the soundscapes and neon streetlight aesthetics of 80's dance clubs, while simultaneously reinventing them. Chill, haunting, and hypnotic, Valley Lights' "Dreams" is a melancholic anthem of summer love and loss...

Stream/Buy >>> hypeddit.com/valleylights/dreams

Will Carpenter of Ships Have Sailed said about the new single "Edge Of An Ocean":

"Last year a song came to me out of nowhere. It was whimsical and sweet, but also deep and thought provoking - I thought I knew why it found me when it did - turns out I was wrong.

A couple weeks after that, my wife and I found out we were expecting our first child, and the song began to make a lot more sense. 

As I was producing "Edge Of An Ocean", I mentioned to my wife that I thought it might be fun to capture our journey...just home video style on our iPhones...and edit it together into a music video for the song.  I thought for sure she'd be shy about the idea, but she loved it and I am so grateful - we now have this beautiful piece of our personal history, married to the song that essentially was a premonition to our daughter's conception, and I'm so excited to be sharing it with you.

Creating this song and the video that accompanies it has truly been a labor of love.  I always create music from a deeply personal place, but this one is just a little bit more special because all of us are a part of it...and now you are as well.

Thank you for listening".