Episode 36: The first breath of 2026

A new year doesn’t start with fireworks.
It starts with silence.

The kind that settles after the last plate is cleared, after the room is put back in place, after the noise gently steps aside. What remains is not emptiness, it’s just space. And space is where listening becomes possible again.

This episode lives exactly there.

Between the end of celebrations and the beginning of intention. Between warmth and momentum. Between what we carry from yesterday and what we dare to shape tomorrow.

Some tracks hold you. Others push you forward. Some confront, some comfort, some simply stay, long enough for you to feel less alone with your thoughts. That’s the quiet power of indie music: it doesn’t shout for attention, it invites it.

As the show unfolded, styles shifted, energies collided, geographies blurred. But one thing stayed constant: sincerity. No urgency to impress. No need to explain. Just artists offering fragments of truth, sometimes raw, sometimes elegant, sometimes unresolved. Like life itself.

This first Salon of 2026 is not about conclusions.
It’s about continuity.

About allowing yourself to slow down without stopping.
About finding strength without noise.
About choosing joy as an act of resistance, all year long.

If you nodded your head, closed your eyes, moved a shoulder, danced a little, or simply breathed deeper for a moment… then the music did its job.

Take this with you.
Let it linger.
Let it resonate where words can’t.

Playlist — Episode 36 (Jan 2, 2026)

• Mitxoda — Patience
• Terrestrial Animal — Desolation Requiem
• Märvel — Take A Stand
• Scarlett Tantrum — Covered in Red
• Frozen Factory — The Nothing I Want More
• Doryphore (feat. Mitxoda) — La Fraude
• SFSF — I’m Gonna Come To You In a Magic
• K/LANK — Plumes
• Little Odetta — Who’s Got The Answer
• Apewards — Take the Lead
• Ec0rce — Nervure
• Zen Orchestra — Heartless
• Shades of Violette — Redleaf
• The Mannequins — Possum Hollow (Acoustic Version)
• Optic Eye — Crystal Moon (feat. Brian Trower)
• The Whisper — Silence
• Distance From Zero — Save Me From Myself
• The Fens — Don’t Take It Away
• Lunar Paths — Burn
• The Red Mountain — .Exe
• Neon Vampire (feat. Mitxoda) — And Now
• RedPrint — Colour Me Insane (Extended Version)
• Myles O’Flaherty / Whiskey Club / Dashing Skull Club — Satellite of Love
• Entropy in Motion — Recursive Symphony
• pMad — Electric
• Mitxoda — Echo Plastique

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