In December 2023, he had a premonition to organize an intimate listening session for his friends and lovers of his music to come listen to the ideas he had spent so much time experimenting with, and he called this gathering SOLAR. That was the first time we sojourned into his world-building, even though the concept hadn’t been fully conceived yet. Like Rome in its genesis, it was getting ready to be built brick by brick. By 2024, he had stepped into this new phase where everything felt fast and chaotic, but still echoed with hope and the excitement of renewed energy that couldn’t be explained. “At the time, I was in a strange emotional space—things felt chaotic, but also full of possibility. You know that feeling when everything seems uncertain, but you can sense something good is coming? That was the energy.”

It was during this period that the concept fully evolved into a fully realized body of work, his first EP, SOLAR VOLUME 1, released in December 2024, emerging from that sense of light—of something bright emerging from uncertainty. The 5-track EP stands out as an empirical body of work, with each track titled and arranged as part of a larger journey toward self-discovery: (Asama, Ozone, Transit, Rebirth and Lifted). Evidently, at the core of his work sits an ongoing search for light within himself and within the people around him. It’s this search that shapes his approach to sound, as he begins to carve out a language for African electronic music that moves beyond familiar structures and expectations. As we dive deeper into his sophomore 7-track EP, SOLAR VOLUME 2, he leans fully into this world-building, expanding on the ideas from the previous chapter and ushering us into Renaissance, which also happens to be the title of the first song on the EP.

“With Volume 2, I pushed the experimentation further. I’ve always wanted to merge African cultural elements with electronic music, not in a surface-level way, but in a way that feels intentional and immersive. So on this project, I explored how traditional sounds, chants, rhythms, and textures can exist within electronic structures.”

And he delivers this philosophy brilliantly on Egwu Ogene, the 6th track on the EP, where he pays homage to traditional Igbo musical groups by blending a live rendition from a local cultural troupe and building the production around it. You can see, hear, and tell that Sounds of Ace is bent on creating a place for himself and his art in this world, and he is not apologetic about it. “That’s the direction I’m moving in—creating music that feels global but is rooted in where I’m from. I’m not trying to create a new genre. I’m just exploring. But I do think it’s important that as African artists, we don’t just follow existing global trends; we contribute something original.”

The symbolism of SOLAR might be expansive, but its philosophy is simple and rooted in depth: it’s about finding your light and sharing it.

“It’s the idea that when you discover something positive within yourself, you shouldn’t hold onto it. You pass it on. It becomes a cycle. I think of it as energy moving through people—community, connection, expression.”