highlight:ed

HIGHLIGHT:ED Is a segment on officialbauns where we get to highlight an artist, project, event, a story and get a bit more into its lore, or at least its structure. The hosting for the questions, the posting & similar is in rotation & currently at hands of Saria, so we suggested a new format in which the artist, for example, can write to you as if it was a letter.. It’s not something we often see, and it’s kind of fitting since “Oceans” definitely needs to be highlighted, who

I$kra - Hylaea

In a world saturated with over-produced, over-planned collaborations, there’s something magnetic about a song that’s born out of plain lack of preparation. That’s how the debut track between Saria (producer) and Iskra (vocalist/lyricist) started to come to life. Saria had a session with Iskra with mostly trap & dark R&B style of beats and couldn’t sleep because of that lack of preparation. It was key to have something electronic for someone like Iskra especially since the op