Some projects are plotted on vision boards, built from months of planning, and shaped in slow, deliberate strokes. Everything Velvet is the opposite—it was born in a single, unscripted moment, the kind that stops time in its tracks.
Marta Alvarez walked into Storefront Records that day as a sound engineer, ready to run a session for Fantastic Negrito (a.k.a. Xavier Dphrepaulezz). She was there to adjust levels, not to make history. But then Xavier turned to her mid-session and asked a simple question: “Can you sing?”
She could.
“I laid down a scratch vocal because he wanted to hear a feminine voice on the demo,” Alvarez recalls. “Next thing I knew, we were starting a completely different project. Everything Velvet is neither me nor Xavier—it’s a conglomeration. His words and my voice. She’s a mysterious entity, even to me.”
For Xavier, the moment was electric. “There was an honesty and mystery in her voice that just froze the room,” he says. “It wasn’t planned. But when it happened, I knew immediately: this is Everything Velvet.”
The result is a collaboration that feels less like a traditional artist-project pairing and more like an apparition that decided to stay. Everything Velvet exists somewhere between Alvarez and Dphrepaulezz—a third presence with its own moods, its own truths, and its own gravitational pull. It’s a collision of precision and accident, of seasoned studio craft and pure emotional instinct.
In an industry obsessed with control, Everything Velvet thrives in the wild, beautiful unknown. And sometimes, the most compelling art comes from exactly that—stepping into the booth when you were only supposed to be behind the glass, opening your mouth, and letting something unexpected take over.
