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Mathis Akengin just released his stunning debut album, ‘Passage des Fleurs’ . The album is a letter to his Turkish grandfather. A love story without instructions, where words sometimes fall short, but the connection remains… The album features Mathis ’ recent single ‘First Floor’ , which has racked up over 920,000 organic Spotify streams and shows the ability of Mathis ’ moreish music to spread through avid listeners on its own volition, proving that he is an artist to take note of in 2026.

New Mathis Akengin single ‘Mute Love’ is about someone speaking without quite knowing how to do it. As Mathis prepares to release his debut album, ‘Mute Love’ serves as a new tantalising taster of what to expect as other tracks from the record like ‘First Floor’ continue to steadily build at over 700,000 organic streams, proving the ability of Mathis’ moreish music to spread through avid listeners on its own volition and proving that Mathis is an artist to take note of in 2026.

Indie artist Mathis Akengin has racked up close to 600,00 organic streams in just a few months for his track ‘First Floor’ .  Never before released in the UK, ‘First Floor’ , with its intriguing piano grooves and Lumineers-esque percussive catchiness, proves Mathis’ ability to transcend genre categorization and create exciting and vibrant, broad-reaching songs from unpredictable sources- with cleverly layered and paced production that keeps the listener on the hook from the outset.

In his new single ‘Mer d’hiver’ , Mathis Akengin portrays a winter sea slowed down, dense, almost frozen, where everything seems to be holding its breath. The piece is built around motifs, mechanical cogs that evoke the workings of a ship, leaving space for breath, for stillness. The piano, deliberately restrained, creates a suspended atmosphere, almost fixed within cold waters.