Helena Casella is a Belgian-Brazilian composer and vocalist. She emerged from a very musical family into a broader artistic environment. For personal development and educational purposes she expanded her taste and connections throughout multiple cities in Belgium and The Netherlands.

Currently based in Gent, she spends her time fusing performing arts with a fondness for phonetics, prose and poetry. While exploring various musical genres, such as R&B, neo-soul, hiphop, modern jazz and Brazilian rhythms, she incorporates these major influences in her own way, so as to naturally embellish her morals, motives and daydreams. Possessing the aptitude to merge personal and metaphorical storytelling with relatable topics,  she provides a sound that resonates with audiences on both an emotional and intellectual level. Her compilation of vocalized thoughts are meant to resemble harmonic and rhythmic familiarity as well as  the elegance of unexpected irregularity, passionately expressed with a soft yet sweltering depth in her voice.

Helena’s music production centers around organic, live instrumentation, with minimal digital effects. "I start with piano and vocals, then layer instruments to expand the sound naturally, always keeping live performance in mind," she explains. Whether performing solo or with a full 8-piece band, she creates an atmosphere that will either be sincerely intimate or purely compelling

Empty Apartments is the solo project of guitarist/producer Jolan Decaestecker (Ão).

In an attempt to free ambient from its narrow definition of being background music, the project investigates time and space traveling through soundscaping.

Which, in the best case, give the listener a choice to experience the music in the foreground or background.

The building blocks for these atypical ambient compositions consist of iPhone videos from friends and family, Google Translate Choirs, worn out tapeloops and sloppy beats.

Given the visual nature of the music, collaborations with visual artists and performers are evident and integral to the project.

Jolan has collaborated with Benjamin Verdonck, Femke Van Der Steen, and other exceptional musicians such as Hendrik Lasure and Rudy Trouvé.

Last year, the project was selected to perform at 'Theater Aan Zee'.

"I'm a Brussels native with a predilection for melancholy, addressing disparate issues on love and frantic obsessiveness through catchy melodies and rhythmic pulses that hint at alternative pop, soft rock and soul influences such as Alice Phoebe Lou, Crumb, Her's, Homeshake, King Krule, Lianne La Havas, Mildlife, Oscar Jerome, Puma Blue, Robbing Millions, The Internet or Wu-Lu.

I've been doing band, label and management stuff for a couple years — mainly with JAKOMO and ET!KET Records — but lately I've felt the urge of exposing a forgotten part of myself with a project of my own and so came to being a collection of new music that is the result of an intimate, introspective and slow writing process.

My forthcoming ep — The Impeccable Story of Prince Quarter — will come out in February 2025 and features some most appreciated contributors: Lucien Fraipont, Fender Mackenson Rooms, Bastien Scutnaire and Ignacio Salvadores."