Today, Foutloos is excited to share the premiere of "Leevendig," the mesmerizing debut single from Momoyo, on Wellington Records. With its easygoing synthesis of sun-soaked improv and late-night wistfulness, "Leevendig" is more a salt-soaked, soulful, and alive atmosphere.
Born out of intimate improv sessions tucked into hidden dunes in Ostend, "Leevendig" captures the rhythm of a place where land meets the sea and music crystalizes into memory. From its first bar, a swirl of viola dances like seagulls lifted by a breeze, leading its listeners through a landscape rich in grooves and high on recollections of neo-soul. There is something about how it moves, at once casual and quietly heart-aching. "Leevendig" is biting and sweet at once, playful and profoundly pensive. The focal point in the 21st-century soul tumbles like the tide over a bed of sun-warmed and slow rhythm. The track doesn't try to resolve in-between tension paradoxically. Instead, it rides it like a wave from beginning to end.
What makes Leevendig feel so immediate, so human, is its point of origin. These aren't polished studio sessions but recordings of real-time collaboration and costly wanderings, and you can hear that spontaneity, the laughter between notes, and the wind in the strings. The music seems like a valuable, worn, and real found object.
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