Hey lovely people,
First off — yes, this is happening! Our first newsletter is here.
And what better way to start than by talking about our debut project, Going Beneath, and the journey that led us to it.
You know how it goes: you spend your time thinking, dreaming, contemplating, reflecting on your own life and the world around you. In a lot of ways, that’s the whole story of this EP.
For me, there were some real moments of struggle. Moments where I knew where I was, but wasn’t quite ready to accept where I was going. One of those moments came while I was transitioning between jobs. I had a very real fear that this music thing wouldn’t work. At the same time, I knew exactly why I was making the change: to make music a higher priority as we entered the next phase of our career.
It felt like a pendulum swinging back and forth. Excitement, fear, certainty, doubt. The rhythm of life itself.
But somewhere in that swing, I started to realise that the highs and lows weren’t necessarily taking me backwards. They were still part of moving forward.
I had been practising a lot of tools around trusting the journey, staying present and accepting that life doesn’t move in a straight line. And slowly, that gave me the confidence to step fully into the next chapter. To learn how to navigate life without constantly losing your footing. To find some higher plane of balance where you can stay open, understanding and accepting — even when everything around you is moving. Those were the lessons waiting for us, and that’s what we were reaching for with this project.
Staying grateful. Staying balanced. Staying blessed for exactly who we are, mid-swing and all.
I remember Krishna and I talking about all of this while he was away — stuck in India thanks to the whole no-visa situation.
Yes, that really happened.
Krishna had his Global Talent Visa rejected and, within 48 hours, went from making breakfast and going to work to packing his bags and flying back home. What we thought might be a short disruption turned into six whole months away from London.
And yet, even there, something shifted.
Being away gave him the chance to find beauty in being home, to reconnect with himself, and to connect even more deeply with the music we were creating. We spent a lot of time talking about what we wanted the EP to feel like, what it meant to be exactly where we were, and how that experience reflected the lives of our friends and everyone else we’re tangled up with. Because everyone is going through their own version of struggle and acceptance.
We wanted to take all of that and build a project where the idea of balance actually lives in the music, rather than just being something we talk about.
And honestly, day-to-day life still looks like that for us.
Some days there’s focus. Some days there’s balance. Some days it’s a bit of both, pulling in completely different directions.
That was the real work behind this EP: learning to keep the balance whilst also accepting where we are, what we’re after, and what we’re moving towards.
Somewhere along the way, we landed on something that changed everything:
Your emotions aren’t the enemy. They’re the freaking compass.
An opportunity to understand yourself a little better. To hear the echo — if you know, you know — of your own voice a little more clearly. To actually meet the inner child inside you. That was the realisation.
The hope with this EP was to understand ourselves through that inner child. To use our own experiences as mirrors rather than projections of things we hadn’t actually dealt with yet. That was the shift. That’s the moment this stopped being just a collection of songs and became something worth chasing.
So yeah — we’re beyond grateful to finally share Going Beneath with you. Not just the songs, but the stories behind them. What we were feeling in that time and place. What was happening underneath it all.
Honestly, what we’re sharing here is a little more than just the music. It’s the actual minds behind it — ours. And letting you into that is its own kind of vulnerability.
So welcome to the newsletter.
Welcome to the bits underneath the music. The stories behind the songs. The things we probably wouldn’t normally say out loud.
Let’s go beneath it all, together.
— Yassine & Krishna