Le Salon indie de Mitxoda, Episode 18 – August 29, 2025
A Celebration of Sounds and Returns
This week the Salon was buzzing, laughter, awards, birthdays, and even long-awaited comebacks. We opened with my own Patience, before Houston’s multi-genre artist Ryan Pinnick set the festive tone with Slap me with a bar and call me Jimmy.
Cushions everywhere, new songs arriving one after another like a back-to-school rush. I simply asked everyone to switch off their phones and let the international indie scene carry them for an hour.
The Celebration Continues
From Oklahoma, Tretura delivered To Whom It May Concern, then we hopped to Brazil with RAFz’s From 1 to 10, crafted in São Bernardo do Campo.
And there was so much to celebrate! Last week’s ISSA Awards put familiar names in the spotlight, Jay El Dee, Synthetik Blonde, Andy Smith, Deedra Patrick, Michael Botte, Raffaella Piccirillo, and more. A proud moment and a reminder of how rich this indie ecosystem is.
After a call for new releases on Facebook, I was flooded with submissions, more than a hundred in under a week. A special long playlist will land in Sunday’s newsletter; subscribe if you like.
A Birthday in the Salon
Craig Berlin’s One More Time led into The Kind Machine’s Hearts in Bloom. Then we raised a glass: Happy birthday to Cinco Dave, the mind behind On The Air Tonight 247! His pick for the occasion? Local Natives’ Sun Hands.
Personal Pleasures
Three personal favorites followed: Neon Vampire & Vanessa Funke’s Ultraviolet Hunger, Histheory’s Stars on the Water, and my first instrumental, Desertland. We crossed Denmark with Enter.me and their post-new-wave jewel In My Past, nods to New Order, Depeche Mode, Human League, Ultravox, and Tears for Fears, before The Sound Industry guided us gently toward the finale with Distance.
A Return Worth Waiting For
Some artists disappear from social media and their silence becomes louder than noise. Morino made that choice last October, but he’s back. We celebrated with Ray Of Sound, and finished in beauty with Subtlety’s voice on Against The Tide.
The indie world celebrates every day: not only through awards, but with each first stream, first reaction, first sale, the tiny sparks that keep us going. Thank you for listening and for keeping this Salon alive.
Playlist — Episode 18
- Mitxoda — Patience
- Ryan Pinnick — Slap me with a bar and call me Jimmy
- Tretura — To Whom It May Concern
- RAFz — From 1 to 10
- Craig Berlin — One More Time
- The Kind Machine — Hearts in Bloom
- Local Natives — Sun Hands
- Neon Vampire & Vanessa Funke — Ultraviolet Hunger
- Histheory — Stars on the Water
- Mitxoda — Desertland
- Enter.me — In My Past
- The Sound Industry — Distance
- Morino — Ray Of Sound
- Subtlety — Against The Tide
