Fernando Nunez

Fernando Nunez

Fernando Nunez is an editor at Visual Atelier 8, contributing to the publication focus on contemporary art, design, architecture, fashion, technology, and creative culture. His editorial work highlights emerging and established creatives through curated features, interviews, and project-based storytelling for an international audience.
Kirrilee: Go Away (Garbage Tip)

Kirrilee: Go Away (Garbage Tip)

Kirrilee´s “Go Away (Garbage Tip)” is a breakup song that chooses the bin over the bedroom floor. The title says exactly where the relationship belongs, while the song’s premise gives humiliation and dating chaos a comic exit rather than another…

Make Believe Love: Organic Growth

Make Believe Love: Organic Growth

Make Believe Love´s “Organic Growth” is a joke that keeps getting less funny the longer it runs. The lyrics pile up genre tags, playlist names, marketing language, and platform rituals until a three-minute song becomes another product trying to survive…

Piper Connolly: unapologetic

Piper Connolly: unapologetic

Piper Connolly´s “unapologetic” is a refusal to negotiate with the version of herself other people might prefer. The song’s stated idea is simple, being yourself without apologizing for the flaws that come with it, but the refusal matters because it…

DEAD STAR TALK: Outta Luck

DEAD STAR TALK: Outta Luck

DEAD STAR TALK build “Outta Luck” around the moment control has already been lost and the mind has not caught up yet. The opening arrives with a failed attempt to turn things around, a mind “reeling,” a pilot down while…

Nate Yingling Trio: THE ENCHANTER

Nate Yingling Trio: THE ENCHANTER

Nate Yingling Trio’s “THE ENCHANTER” gives a face to the fortune-teller at the center of Welcome to Lunaryth. The enchanter is a circus character who plays a game that reveals your true fate, turning a simple game into the defining…

SALOMEA: i will not allow it

SALOMEA: i will not allow it

SALOMEA’s “i will not allow it” makes refusal an act of self-control. The repeated “I will not” keeps returning as the speaker names the things they refuse to surrender: empathy, judgment, connection, and even the right to question what they…

seeTrees: All These Things

seeTrees: All These Things

seeTrees’ “All These Things” finds its peace in wanting less. The lovers leave behind the pursuit of “the sky” and return to a one-bed apartment, where there is room for almost nothing except the life they are building together. “Nothing…

Yuma Koda, Mei Semones, Yuma Abe: ende.

Yuma Koda, Mei Semones, Yuma Abe: ende.

Yuma Koda, Mei Semones, and Yuma Abe bring “ende” to the point where music begins to feel like a memory. It´s the closing track of Amid Kinos, it moves between lullaby and whispered folklore, with piano, strings, saxophone, bass, and…

Hollow Star: Running

Hollow Star: Running

Hollow Star’s “Running” asks what remains of a person when everything that seems to define them is taken away. Laughter, a smile, a mind, eyes, a heart, then wonder, desire, and dreams all become hypothetical losses, leaving one question behind:…

Introducing: NOT MYSelf.

Introducing: NOT MYSelf.

NOT MYSelf build alternative art rock from Victoria and Vancouver, Canada, with “the art of perseverance” giving their music room to move across different sonic and emotional territory. Their songs favor poetry over explanation, and the album’s unpredictability keeps each…