Resa Saffa Park wrestles with inertia on cinematic new single 'Standing Still', new album 'Kendra' out 6th November

New album Kendra announced for release 6th November digitally and on 12" vinyl via Ja. Group

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 Jacklin

 Emerging cinematic indie singer/songwriter Resa Saffa Park today releases her new single 'Standing Still', the latest glimpse of her forthcoming album Kendra, out 6 November via Ja. Group.

Wrapped in smoky production, softly echoing guitars and an unhurried groove, 'Standing Still' wrestles with inertia, slowly gathering emotional tension.

Speaking about the song, Resa Saffa Park said:

"Standing Still is a song about the fear of stagnation and a fading sense of self-worth. It's about how even simple things can start to feel threatening when you lose movement and direction."

A graduate of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Resa returned to her home city of Oslo to write her new album 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?"

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.

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 collection date. Songwriting remains her 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 6 November digitally and on 12” vinyl via Ja. Group, available to pre-order here. New single 'Standing Still' is out now.

LIVE DATES

• 07 October - Ankara, SoldOut Performance Hall (TR) (Headline)
• 10 October - Istanbul, Maximum Uniq Açıkhava (TR) (with Yann Tiersen)
• 26 November - Gothenburg, Viva Sounds (DK)

'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