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RACHEL KITCHLEW × SOL CALYPSO

A playlist for the in-between

Some musicians play an instrument.
Others live inside it.

Rachel Kitchlew does the second thing.

A harpist and composer based in London, her music doesn't fit cleanly into any one category — and that's precisely what makes it interesting. Jazz, ambient, experimental. Textures left deliberately unresolved. Sounds that aren't in a hurry to arrive anywhere.

She has performed at Glastonbury, the Royal Albert Hall, Montreux, Montreal. BBC Radio 3, Jazz FM, Worldwide FM. She has worked with Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, Robohands, Vegyn, François Kevorkian.

But none of that is what brought us to her.

It was the sound.

That quality of things that don't need to be explained to be felt.

When we think about a collaboration for Sol Calypso, we're not looking for visibility.
We're looking for resonance.

Someone who understands texture, restraint.
Who lets things stay unresolved — because sometimes that's where the feeling lives.

Rachel understands that instinctively.

The playlist she's made for us comes from that same place.

It's not a collection of favourite songs.
It's a temperature.

The temperature of an afternoon you don't want to end.
Of light changing before you notice.
Of something you're wearing that already felt like yours.
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