There are many reasons why summer always feels like the invincible season, and one certainly is its ability to sketch colorful pictures of life rife with options. Now Sebastian Mullaert and Layla Rehana are drawing one themselves. And they use solar paint for it. Coming from completely different backgrounds - Sebastian, a sound explorer with a history of exploring musical textures and moving dancefloors while the work of vocalist Layla weaves intuitive healing and subconscious reprogramming - they were immediately ready to take creative chances as first improvised sessions already felt like everything is perfectly keeping up with their very own sensibilities. The resulting first EP for Bigamo offers a collection of patient and almost meditative tracks that feel as natural as breathing. Everything is interconnected. Glowing. Soothing. Like a memory, everything is now and then. It’s the equivalent of laying on your back and watching fair weather clouds as they gently transform and eventually disappear. It’s when you realize that love is all there is, is all you know of love. In comparison, the duo’s sophomore offering feels more song-based, it presents more structure in a classic sense and flirts with beats and different rhythms - the underlying emotion luckily stays the very same, though. It’s about transience, a gentle musical stream of consciousness that’s tracing a memory of moments you haven’t experienced yet. Although we’re slowly but steadily entering the annual phase of shorter and darker days, their sun clearly sets only to rise and shine again. Both EPs will be compiled on limited vinyl under the name “Solar Paint & The Melodies In Between“ by the end of the year.