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Artist
Noro
12+ albums
hard technotechnoelectronicUSAchiptunes
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There are at least three artists with the name Noro. 1. The solo project of Alternative/Pop Musician Samuel Hoeksema, based out of New York. 2. A Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Recording/Mixing Engineer/Producer from Tokyo Japan. 3. An EDM music project from Lithuania. 1. Noro is not a product of irrepressible inspiration, of an indomitable and irresistible force of human creative energy. Noro is surrender. It is about relinquishment. After contemplating selling all his musical equipment, Samuel Hoeksema tucked himself away in the quiet darkness of his parents’s basement and surrendered himself to his music one last time. That night he opened himself to explore his feelings of anxiety and insecurity surrounding his music, and that dialogue with his deeper self manifested into a song titled “Bell”. With something in hand that finally felt real, he sent the completed song to a few close friends including a new friend who would later produce his debut release, the Nightingale 7”, Morgan Greenwood. He was met with a wave of reinforcement, and with his friends’s encouragement towards following this new thread he returned back to his basement room to record seven more songs over the course of the next week. Each had a delicate vulnerability to them fortified by an unabashed truthfulness, and this has become the hallmark of the character embodied in his work. The local scene quickly embraced him and this soon lead to a string of shows, mention in local music publications, and be
