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Chiiild - Weightless. An exclusive live performance for Vevo DSCVR ARTISTS TO WATCH 2022, an annual series highlighting those that are shaping the future of music. Yonatan Ayal asks a lot of questions in the songs he makes as Chiiild. Like, “How does it feel walking fast asleep?” Or, “How can I translate your words into light?” And, “Will you stay here for a while or have you had enough?” Sometimes existential, sometimes self-reflective, these queries always match Chiiild’s exploratory psych-R&B. Yoni’s called his reverb-drenched sound “synthetic soul,” and used the same phrase as the title of his 2020 debut EP. It dropped after the Quebec native had spent a few years in Los Angeles, where he wrote and produced projects for other artists. But as cool as a credit on a Chloe x Halle or a J Lo song was, Yoni couldn’t ignore an urge to create his own music. So with his longtime Montreal pal Pierre Luc-Rioux, he began focusing on all things Chiiild. The result was seven tracks of psych-R&B that st
