some of our client projects

Tea Dragon – Tea Dragon (EP)

               

Recorded by Andreas Matheou / Produced and Mixed by Qais Khoury – at Hot Soap Studios in Spring of 2024.
Mastered by Robb R
Release: EP ”Tea Dragon”
Written by Tea Dragon 
Cover Art by @Artcohr

Tea Dragon Orchestrated a Symphonic Parable of Dualism with the Instrumental EP, Tea Dragon

Qais Khoury continues to be an incalculable entity in the music industry; the fluidity of their creativity refuses to be dammed, evidenced by their panoramic symphonic narrative of an instrumental 2-track EP, Tea Dragon.

The prelude piece, Void, eases you into the profoundly unexpected EP; the opening chapter of a story told in melody, set in the dusk of desolation arrests through the tenderly ruminative guitars filtered through ambient reverberations, intersected by classical strings and electronica aesthetics of cinematic serenity.

The title single contrasts the quiescence caged within Void; lush tonal transcendence precedes the art-rock crescendo which unflinchingly extends throughout the intricate rhythmic visceralism of the release, the contorting time signatures become emblems of fortitude as they meet resistance with resilience.

Side by side, Void and Tea Dragon become a manifestation of the dualism between introspection and action.

Buzz’ Ayaz – Buzz’ Ayaz (Album)

               

Recorded and mixed by Makes Pelopidas with assistant engineer Andreas Matheou – at Hot Soap Studios in Summer of 2023.
Release: Album ”Buzz’ Ayaz”
Written by: Antonis Antoniou

Website: https://buzzayaz.com/

Hailing from Cyprus’s divided capital Nicosia, this newly-born project led by Antonis Antoniou – founder of award-winning bands Monsieur Doumani and Trio Tekke – brings a fresh air of Eastern Mediterranean psychedelia, rock and blues.

A dynamic offbeat groove emitted from the tribal-like drumming and the fierce bass clarinet riffs produces a grimy trance-like reverie.

The result is a fuzzy urban soundscape of synth textures and dubby electronics, 70s psych organ allusions, growling reed utterances and microtonal Anatolian melodic spices.

Their debut album has been released September 2024 via  Glitterbeat Records.

Tea Dragon – What If I (EP)

                  

Recorded and produced by Andreas Matheou, Qais Khoury & Sam Royo Varela at Hot Soap Studios in Winter of 2022

R.E.M. State – Mixed by – Andreas Matheou & Qais Khoury

What If I – Mixed by – Matthew N

Honey Ripples – Mixed by – Andreas Matheou & Stefanos Arestis

Mastered at CPS Mastering
Release: EP ”What If I”
Written by: Tea Dragon
Cover Art by Alex Pap

On February 3rd, the superlatively talented songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Tea Dragon will unveil his most experimental EP to date, What If I, as a departure from his indie-psych hits. Bar spoken word philosophical verses in the title single, the instrumental EP allows the dynamic instrumentals to set the tone, atmosphere, and sonic ideology.

The opening single, R.E.M. State, reaches the pinnacle of tranquillity as the lush reverb counters the visceralism of the trip-hop-y backbeats. Before track two, Honey Ripples, gives you an oceanic opportunity to slip away from the fray and enter a subaqueous paradise.

The concluding title single is a disarmingly poignant invitation into the psyche of Tea Dragon. The spoken word verses compel you into matching the deep state of reflection while the experimentalism of the Avant-Garde rhythmically complex arrangement provides a serene atmosphere you will want to visit time and time again. The soulfully accommodating release is inexplicably unparalleled from what any other artist is putting into the ether.

The alchemic feat of audio engineering definitively proves Tea Dragon’s ability to take phenomenological fragments and create sonically serene worlds from them. If I could permanently exist within them, I would take up perpetual residence in their artistic confines.

Pinwheel Valley – Hot Air Balloon (EP)

Recorded and produced by Andreas Matheou & Qais Khoury at Hot Soap Studios in Winter of 2022
– Hot Air Balloon – Mixed by – Jim Mc
– Horizon – Mixed by – Matthew N
– Turning to Gold – Mixed by – Andreas Matheou & Qais Khoury
Mastered at CPS Mastering
Release: EP ”Hot Air Balloon”
Written by: Pinwheel Valley (formerly known as KAIS)

Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Pinwheel Valley (Qais Khoury) takes the complexities of the human condition as inspiration for his fusionist sound that sonically melds indie, psych, soul-infused blues, rock and folk. At the outset of his music career, he addressed global topics before turning his attention to the drab difficulties and profound beauty of being human and lyrically dipped into meta poetry.

As a lover of the metaphysical, Pinwheel Valley’s work consists of finding the balance between natural inclinations and the demands in an ego-driven late-stage capitalist world. His wanderlust tendencies have seen him gracing global stages since the early 2000s as an independent touring artist. In 2014, he took part in the Mayor of London Big Busk and graduated with a diploma in Music Production and Sound Engineering from Point Blank Music College.

He toured Vancouver, Toronto and Seattle with a full band in 2016 and 2017, received an honorary mention in the 2016 International Songwriting Competition, a Canadian Best Out of Province nomination at the 13th Annual Toronto Independent Music Awards and a Lyrics Finalist position in the 2017 USA Songwriting Competition.

In 2021 he was interviewed by BBC Radio London host Robert Elms for his seminal 2018 single, Take Me Home.

Currently, Qais works from his personal and commercial recording studio, Hot Soap Studios, in Cyprus, where he continues to work on his profoundly explorative music that challenges society’s constricting constructs that inhibit actualization.

“It takes some serious reading between the anthemic uplifting lines to pull out the protestive fire that any establishment would be desperate to put out through fear of it cutting profit margins that are boosted by dull hiveminds. On the flip side of that, texturally, Hot Air Balloon is a dreamy, kaleidoscopic blister of bliss, which is all too welcome in these easy to lament times.” Amelia Vandergast – A&R Factory.

Monk Fx – Astra (Single)

Recorded, at Hot Soap Studios in Fall of 2019
Release: Single ”Astra”

Monk Fx is a 5 piece instrumental band formed in Larnaca, characterized by a focus on exploring textures and timbre over traditional rock song structures, loose and lengthy song structures centered on instrumental hypnotic space, a new generation of alternative/indie band that draw from psychedelic rock, space rock, ambient music, and — more often than not — experimental and avant-garde influences.