Resa Saffa Park releases new album 'Kendra'

Oslo-based, Liverpool-trained singer-songwriter and composer Resa Saffa Park makes cinematic indie that draws together noir-pop, trip-hop and jazz with touchpoints including Portishead, Tamino and Julia Jackli

Resa Saffa Park today releases her new album Kendra via Ja. Group.

Cinematic indie steeped in jazz, trip-hop, noir-pop and soul, Resa Saffa Park's music sits at a distinctive intersection of influences, in the orbit of Tamino, Michelle Gurevich and Portishead, with inspiration drawn from Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Nirvana, Mitski and Julia Jacklin.

A graduate of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Resa returned to her home city of Oslo to write Kendra. Written largely in her apartment over the course of a year, the album finds her paying closer attention to the people around her. Across twelve songs, she keeps returning to the same question: “How do we understand ourselves through other people?”

Kendra finds Resa writing with a new sense of confidence, precision and emotional honesty, turning soured friendships, new love and questions of identity into her most fully realised work to date.

Across the album, those questions take different forms: ‘Forever as Her Friend’ explores the unravelling of a friendship, while ‘Standing Still’ confronts the fear of stagnation and a fading sense of self-worth. ‘Love Is a Lonely Feeling’ turns the heartbreak song inward, tracing Resa’s strained relationship with her own artistry, while ‘I Can See The World’ finds joy in the everyday intimacy of falling in love. On ‘Under The Sun’, her voice meets the unmistakable baritone of Madrugada’s Sivert Høyem, finding tenderness in a shared contemplation of life’s fragility.

Produced primarily by Bård Berg, with production contributions from Martin Vinje, Daragh Patrick Wearen and Øyvind Mathisen, Kendra brings together piano, guitars, synths and live strings. Mathisen also joins Resa on ‘To Keep From Harm’, which places her voice alongside his piano and synths.”

Songwriting remains Resa Saffa Park's clearest point of orientation - the place she returns to understand herself and the world around her.

"Music is the safest place I know," Resa says. "It’s the place I go to tap into my deepest self. I need music to be as close to art as it can be. You can tell the difference between songs written from a place of needing to create something, rather than wanting success or streams or attention."

Following the independent release of her 2025 full-length, Silver Bead Eyes, Resa has cultivated a devoted international audience, selling out headline shows and playing across cities including Ankara, Istanbul, Stockholm, Milan, Paris, Copenhagen and London. Her music has received support from The Line of Best Fit, Ones To Watch, 1883 Magazine, Headliner Magazine and more.

Resa Saffa Park's new album, Kendra, is out now digitally and on 12” vinyl via Ja. Group, available to purchase here.

LIVE DATES

• 26 November 2026 - Gothenburg, Viva Sounds (SE)
• 19 December 2026 - Istanbul, Zorlu PSM (TR)
• 15 April 2027 - Ankara, SoldOut Performance Hall (TR)

'Kendra - album artwork & track list

1. Let It Burn

2. Love Is a Lonely Feeling

3. Standing Still

4. We Dream No More

5. Town Mouse

6. To Keep From Harm

7. Under The Sun

8. Melancholy

9. Forever as Her Friend

10. I Can See The World

11. 1964

12. This Quiet