Live music in its most personal form: forty guests, one room, and the connection between artist and audience as part of the performance.
Hosted just two to three times a year and limited to an audience of forty, each session brings musicians, singers and songwriters together for a 60 to 90-minute performance of original songs and carefully selected covers.
Set within the warm, creative atmosphere of the studio, the sessions are a rare chance to hear live music up close, inside a working recording studio.
Session #11Poster
Intimate Session #11
Pinwheel Valley, the reimagined moniker of KAIS, returned to Hot Soap Studios three years after their 2023 session.
Cinematic, genre-blurring music often described as “fairytales for adults”: Indie Soul, atmospheric Alt-Rock and textured Folktronica, with emotive vocals, intricate instrumentation and expansive production. The project is fronted by Qais Khoury, the studio’s founder.
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Every session since 2022: the posters, the artists, the photographs and the live videos. 11 sessions and 158 photos, by year.
Session #11 · Pinwheel Valley, 25 Jul 2026: see the latest session
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A Cypriot trio from Nicosia fusing traditional and modern elements: Savvas Thoma (bendir, vocals), Natasa Hadjiandreou (vibraphone, percussion) and Demetris Yiasemides (flute, sylphyo, electronics).
Their debut album, Soundscapes of Nicosia, came out on 10 October 2025 through the Italian label Zero Nove Nove.
Copper Mine’s journey began with his older sister’s record collection: Bob Dylan, JJ Cale, Dire Straits, the Beatles and Bob Marley. For him, every song captures a moment in time.
With Andreas Matheou on guitars, Andreas Antoniou on bass, Kyriakos Costa on keys and Julien Koukides on drums.
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A Cyprus-based pianist, composer and songwriter whose cinematic songs combine original material with contemporary Greek poetry and storytelling: sweet melodies, atmospheric sounds and traditional Greek elements, from a classical background.
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An indie folk singer-songwriter pairing raw lyrics about the human experience with soulful melodies on piano and guitar. Two songs from the night were filmed.
Filmed live · 2 videos
Two years later, Zina returned as the inaugural artist of the Hot Soap Artist Residency in 2026.
A singer-songwriter with a soulful take on pop. At 13 she represented Cyprus at the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, and she has performed at numerous concerts and TV shows.
Album presentation: Origins
Guitarist, composer and educator from Cyprus, who completed his studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2015 and toured Europe and India. The night presented his album Origins, a fusion of jazz and Eastern ethnic melodies.
KAIS (now Pinwheel Valley): an international award-winning artist group fronted by Canadian multi-instrumentalist Qais Khoury, blending Indie Soul, Mellow Alternative Rock and Folktronica.
Erika Soteri: R&B, soul and jazz with a touch of Latin flair, and her signature poetic lyricism.
Alexis Sunder: fresh, sunny and retro, with head-bobbing grooves reminiscent of Jamiroquai, JUNGLE and Mayer Hawthorne.
Marios Panayi: warm, intimate vocals that move from pop to soul.
Dionysis Nicolaou: soulful vocals and acoustic guitar spanning reggae, pop, rock and blues.
Michalis Kontovourkis (Kontovourkis & Co.): “liberated by any sound that brings music to their ears”.
Each session is limited to 40 guests. Ask the studio about performing at the next intimate session.
