Valentina Reynolds

Inside the Worlds We Were Never Meant to Enter with Danielle Udogaranya

It’s the kind of opening that holds you instinctively. You recognise the build before it announces itself. Not through volume or drama, but through pressure. Through the way space tightens slightly. Through the way melody hints rather than declares. It’s patient without feeling hesitant, guided by confidence rather than urgency.

For years I’ve wondered why such an integral part of the music making process somehow slips under the radar. Every song any of us have ever enjoyed is because of a team of people much larger than the faces of those performing and it doesn’t sit right with me that we don’t always get to hear from or even see these talented individuals.