- Chasing Twilight
- Hand In Hand
- Painted Butterfly
- Awake In A Dream
- Rendezvous
- Serenade Of The Night Sky
- Looking Back
- Promise
- Lonely Road
- Hope
Straalen is an 18-year-old singer songwriter from Queensland’s Gold Coast. Straalen’s life is centred around his music, balanced with his daily life of surfing, with a strong passion for being healthy and fit. Over the past two years Straalen has travelled to Sydney to write with a number of established writers, the result of some of the demo recordings that came out of those writing session was a contract being offered, however Straalen continued to follow an independent path.
In February 2016 he released his first single Be Mine Tonight. The video has been viewed over 250,000 times on Facebook & YouTube and the song has achieved 700,000 streams on Spotify alone.
His second single Help is set to be released on 25th November and will be accompanied by a stunning video shot on the Central Coast of NSW. Help is the second track that features on the SoundsLikeCafé November digital.
“I want to develop as acredible singer songwriter. I love creating music that I believe in”.
Straalen will begin touring and performing live after the release of the single. He has his sights set on developing as an artist and eventually taking his music internationally. Straalen is all about his music and surfing. Check out his new single Help.
Find ‘HELP’ here:
iTunes
itunes.apple.com/au/album/help-single
Spotify
open.spotify.com
Official Site
straalenmusic.com
Facebook
www.facebook.com/straalenmusic
Soundcloud
oundcloud.com/straalen
Instagram
@straalen
The Soundslikecafe August playlist has received a warm welcome in cafes featuring these terrific artists
Cafes have mentioned they love the variety of genres on this one but still creating a consistent new music experience for their customers…
Slow Club UK – Female Vocal Chill meets Indie
Josh Johnstone – Perth – Indie Folk Rock
Tailor Birds – Melbourne – Avant Garde feat Electric Violin
Knox – Fiji – Blues with his signature silky smooth voice
Steve Rivera USA- Ambient Piano
The Mezcaltones Sydney- think the Pulp Fiction Soundtrack – a La Dick Dale…
After being based in Melbourne and touring throughout the east coast of Australia, he USA, Europe, and Asia in his various bands for several years, Josh moved back to his home town of Fremantle in 2012. For the past 12 months, Josh has been busy in the studio writing and recording his debut album ‘Call in Whispers’ with Eskimo Joe’s Joel Quartermain. The now completed album was released in April 2016 and is by far Josh’s best work to date. Two singles from the album have just been released; ‘Rain Dancer’ and ‘Front Light’ both of which you will find online with a little help from Google… and if you don’t, then you will just have to go and see it performed live.
Get the new album here:
iTunes – itunes.apple.com/call-in-whispers
CD Baby – cdbaby.com/callinwhispers
Spotify – open.spotify.com/callinwhispers
Track List:
facebook.com/joshjohnstonemusic
soundcloud.com/joshjohnstonemusic
Instagram: joshjohnstonemusic
Hailing from Adelaide, Julie-Anne Marshall is a late comer to the music world and has self-funded and independently released her debut album, ‘Bluebird’. Growing up Julie-Anne used poetry to express herself and deal with situations in her life, but it wasn’t until her 30’s that she decided to follow her passion for music. She performed with bands around Adelaide working on her performing and song writing skills making the piano her instrument. Her vocal style is earthy yet ethereal – to connect, uplift, heal, that’s the power and purpose of her songs.
Track list:
Buy links:
iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/bluebird/id1094402669?app=itunes
https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/bluebird/id1094402669
CD: Clarity Records – http://clarityrecords.net
CDBaby: https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/julieannemarshall2
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