Out Now: Rissa Garcia-Love is Lifting Me

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New York based, Dancing Room Only resident Rissa Garcia returns to her own NightChild Records this March with the ‘Love Is Lifting Me’ EP. Inspired by Danny Tenaglia during his residency at Club Vinyl from 1999 - 2004, Rissa Garcia has been avidly collecting records and playing them at various high-profile club gigs for over a decade. During this time she's shared the decks with Danny Krivit, Todd Terry, Tony Humphries, Kenny Dope and Ultra Nate, her productions channel the vast amount of dance music knowledge she's accumulated and here this continues with her latest collection of cuts making up the ‘Love Is Lifting Me’ EP.

‘Don’t Come For Free’ leads with a bumpy drum groove, classic chord sequences and driving subs and soulful vocals throughout. ‘Answer To My Prayer’ follows next, employing a shuffled snares, organic percussion and plucked synth stabs as its foundation while bright, expansive piano stabs and soaring vocal chants further fuel the emotive, peak-time feel. Title-track ‘Love Is Lifting Me’ then rounds out the release, bringing robust toms, popping congas and swirling shakers into the limelight amongst an amalgamation of airy organ hits, soft chords and cut up vocal samples uttering the track’s title