mokina: love is also ok (part 1)
The first two singles off of mokina’s debut upcoming album love is also ok (Part 1) Departures / Stars were written and produced in their entirety along with the rest of the album on a four day stay in a studio apartment in Tuscany. Last November, after spending years apart during the pandemic, moki and fellow Italian artist Jacopo Planet got together with the intention of creating something new.
This release marks a certain departure with mokina’s warm, beachy and lofi sound to something more new-wave and alternative; now taking her layered synth and vocal scapes to some kind of new dimension. It is introduced in Departures and is followed by the more bouncy and indie-pop anthem Stars. Stars shines through a moki’s debut music video filmed in her current home base in Portugal. It is a celebration of friendships — the intimate, romantic and platonic bonds we form through them, and is pictured through her group of girl friends skate boarding, eating pizza, finding dinosaurs and chasing sunsets. It will be released later in March.
mokina has slowly been making her name as an indie darling over the past three years. Her releases have received nods from NOTION, Indie Shuffle, CLASH, Dummy and have made their way to Spotify’s New Music Portugal, Next Wave Neo Soul and Chill Total. Her EP “vol. 1” also made its way to #1 on hypem’s popular chart.
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