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Cloonee (21+ Event)

Alison Wonderland

When it comes to making music, Alison Wonderland has always worn her heart on her sleeve. Her songwriting is visceral and raw, creating lines that feel like entries from her own diary and twisting the familiar burns of heartache and hurt into empowering mantras. Her production is as explosive as it is delicate, channeling intricate, uncompromising beat work and blending in the unexpected, like cello breakdowns, amongst swinging trap, bass beats, and dynamic, futuristic soundscapes.Everything has changed since Alison Wonderland released her last record in 2018. The world turned upside down when a global pandemic wiped out "normal life" as everyone knew it. Like many, Alison Wonderland found herself suddenly very still, and very alone."My life was going a certain way before something pulled everything out from under me," she describes. "It left me entirely alone, and it all happened around the same time as COVID. I felt like I had hit my rock bottom." Having always turned to making music to process, she began to ruminate on the beginnings of her third album, Loner. Like rereading the pages of old diaries, she revisited her own albums for the first time in a long time. "I realized that I have always seen myself as the victim of my story. This time, something shifted in me, and I decided that I didn't want to be the victim anymore. Instead, whatever I wrote from here would empower me, and help me find strength in this loneliness."Loner captures Alison Wonderland at her best; an exhilarating juxtaposition of lyrics and sound, the album is as bright as it is brash. Her songwriting, sharper than ever, is disarmingly genuine and wickedly clever. Longtime fans will know that Alison Wonderland has always faced her own experiences of loss, hurt, and unbridled passion head on through her music, but with Loner, there exists an undeniable new draw in her explorations of hope and perseverance. "For me, Loner felt like a rebirth" With her latest, Alison Wonderland transforms darkness into light, disorder into order. "I owe it to whoever else is out there who was like me, wishing that they had an album like this to empower them to feel less alone and know that it's all going to be okay one day," she says. In 2022, as we emerge from past years of cloudy, turbulent change, Loner has arrived just in time to remind us to look ahead to a better tomorrow.

Nimino

nimino spent his teen years crafting unique sounds and textures to implement into his own music, leading to a distinctive, yet adaptable stype that sits on the edge of genres. His musical journey started at the young age of 11 when he took up drums and continued to evolve until he began producing/DJing at the age of 16. His first official release on Spotify, “You Wonder with Me” currently has 1,434,886 plays on the platform. Moving between house, hip-hop, and garage music, nimino has crafted an image as a musician who can fit into almost any situation. His diverse discography has led him to playing at a plethora of different festivals and event spaces, such as Leeds Festival (2015), Castlepalooza Festival (2016), Green Door Store (2017), and most recently a sold-out show at Peckham Hall in London (2023). He has over 40 million streams across Spotify and Soundcloud, and consistently sits at over 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify each month. His music has received worldwide support and acknowledgement from reputable platforms such as Spotify, Earmilk, Huffington Post, and countless others. nimino’s social media following has skyrocketed in recent months; growing on Instagram from less than 5,000 followers in November 2022 to 52,739 followers today. His music has also become a TikTok sensation, leading to huge amounts of excitement around his current releases, and amassing half a million streams in under a month on his newest single “Opening Credits,” which has over 1.5 million streams on Spotify at present. In addition to chart success, his latest album caught the attention of global brands and he was given the opportunity to compose music for the 2022 Lacoste x Zalando ad campaign.

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