BIO

Dublin-born composer/producer Lemaa sits perched on the wall that separates the instruments and the machines.

At home on Keys, the engineer and multi-instrumentalist feels content yet slightly uncomfortable here, aware the simple elegance of the keys has its limitations as well as its glaring beauty .

 “In the sounds of modernity, digitalism gives the artist more tools to move these limitations further away and create stand-alone pieces of soul food for the listener. This has to be a place, where both the instruments and the machines live but only if on a human level.”

As a student at both STC Dublin and Point Blank London, Lemaa developed his studio skills.The well threaded recording processes of instruments and ambience, coupled with the ocean of possibilities within modern DAWs intrigued. During this time the Sound in Stories concept began – a mixtape-style series of spoken word, personally recorded ambient sounds and music from many genres that flow into one another, using key and rhythmical patterns to create a meditative state of contentedness for the listener. With roots as a DJ, going back home on a different playing field fuelled his creativity and this carried into his production style , always mood dependent, with pensive instrumental ideas often becoming a hook for a club track... and so follows the debut album “Call and Responsibility” .

Due for release late March 2022, a drifting concept of hypnotic keys and stretched synthesis that calls to the soul. The light and dark “Thin Lines” hits a melancholic point inside the listener with ambient experimental "The Dream" weaving symphonic elements together to make one. There is more to come..

“It is a serene feeling to be lost in music, in a melody. Its like a blanket of emotion has been draped over your inner being and everything else seems temporarily irrelevant. There is no other feeling like it. That is why I make music and I have to share that feeling with others, whatever the protagonist is.. keys, strings, percussion, 808.. If it has soul , lets play it.”

And play we shall.