SONDURE3 SOUNDS6 RELEASES
The sound
Producers, not performers.
Three sounds, three rooms: dark trap, afrobeat and Latin-influenced club music, each with the music that belongs to it. The split follows how the releases have been described in public, quote by quote.
Cold surfaces, low pulse, melancholy under the drive.
The room that frames the voice instead of competing with it. This is where SONDURE is credited most often: the ice-cold trap of FRIO, the reckoning in DraMa — modern production carrying the sadness in the melody rather than the words.
”SONDURE … frames Jireel's voice with a soundscape that is both modern and atmospheric … the melodies carry the melancholy that arises.”
Heard in
West African drive, water as the image.
YEMAYA is named after the Yoruba water goddess Yemayá — protector, mother, guide — and is deliberately genre-free: house, hip hop and club in the same record, with Y4ska guesting on "Burna Boy". This is the afro side of the collective.
”Deliberately genre-free — house, hip hop and aggressive club music on the same album.”
Heard in
YEMAYA
Jireel · NOV 2024
Named after the Yoruba water goddess; deliberately genre-free — house, hip hop, aggressive club music (Dopest).
Only one release is publicly described this way so far.
Latin-influenced club music — summer, night, floor.
Singles built to be played loud: WOW and Bad Bunny, summery and made for the floor, with latin influence in the rhythm — and the same melancholy still sitting in the melody underneath.
Heard in
[FYLL PÅ — the split follows the public descriptions of each release; which release belongs to which sound, and any further sounds, are confirmed by Sondure]