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A new beginning in this cold season

A new beginning in this cold season

Natashia Kelly

Label: Challenge Records
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917363029
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Catalog number: CR 73630
Releasedate: 30-10-26
- The album reflects a period of introspection, resilience, healing and hope, with the “cold season” functioning as both a literal and emotional landscape.
- Every track is written by Kelly herself, giving the album a strong personal authorship and a consistent artistic voice.
- Featuring Benjamin Sauzereau on electric and acoustic guitar, Yannick Peeters on double bass, and Dré Pallemaerts on drums and kanjira, the album offers sensitive interplay, groove and atmosphere.

With A New Beginning In This Cold Season, Belgian vocalist, composer and performer Natashia Kelly presents a poetic and deeply atmospheric album about transition, resilience and renewal. Across seven original compositions, Kelly turns toward landscapes, weather, animals and natural forces to explore inner movement: fear and hope, darkness and clarity, fragility and strength.

Rooted in jazz yet open to soul, gospel, spoken word and contemporary groove-based music, the album creates an intimate sound world in which lyricism and improvisation meet. Kelly’s warm, expressive voice is supported by Benjamin Sauzereau on electric and acoustic guitar, Yannick Peeters on double bass, and Dré Pallemaerts on drums and kanjira. Together they shape music that feels both delicate and grounded, moving naturally between hushed reflection and subtle rhythmic energy.

The album’s title track sets the tone with the image of a cold season as both a literal and emotional landscape. Throughout the record, recurring images of wind, wings, clouds, horses, moonlight and storms become symbols of change and endurance. Rather than confronting the turmoil of the world through slogans, Kelly searches for meaning in nature, finding beauty, movement and quiet strength in the face of uncertainty.

Concise yet rich in ideas, A New Beginning In This Cold Season offers seven songs in just over half an hour. It is a focused, refined and emotionally resonant statement from an artist whose music balances vulnerability with power, and whose storytelling invites the listener into a shared space of reflection, healing and hope.