Feel Some Type of Wave 🎵🌊
Feel Some Type of Wave 🎵🌊
Feel Some Type of Wave was our newest youth album project throughout 2025 in collaboration with Grove Park Youth Club and funded and supported by Youth Music using public funding public funding by the Nation Lottery. Over 36 weeks our music studio sessions invited local young people age 11-17, up to 21 SEND, to express themselves musically, with a mental health and wellbeing focus through creativity, mentoring and access to a bespoke youth music studio.
Sessions allowed participants to learn and/or develop songwriting, rap, vocals, beat making and programming, production, keyboards, using Logic Pro software, guitar, music video creation and more. The project supported young people with or without musical experience in expressing themselves and using music as an outlet for their mental health and wellbeing. Our young people were encouraged to create music inspired by their authentic lived experiences and their thoughts and feelings.
The funding received allowed our lead facilitator to receive training in Mental Health First Aid and Level 2 Child Counselling. This helped support the young participants more effectively and competently. Young people opened up in sessions and were able to write about their personal stories and experiences.
Over 70% reported an improvement in overall wellbeing since attending the sessions over the year.
One young person said “I feel anxious some days after school but when I attend Beats Lab sessions I feel calmer and proud of myself after working on my music.”.
18 full tracks were proudly released on this youth album!
Feel Some Type Of Wave
by Grove Park Youth Club
Here’s the full album created by over 40 young people, featuring 13 artists and 18 tracks!
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Project Facilitator Team
Annalise Morley
Delivering sessions weekly
Songwriter/Producer
Annalise is the founder and project manager of Beats Lab. She has known some of our young people since the very beginning days of Grove Park Youth Club reopening in 2021 and has been making music with the GPYC community since then, therefore all GPYC projects are very dear to her heart!
This project Annalise will be undergoing Level 2 training in Child Counselling Skills to increase her ability to support wellbeing further than her current knowledge base in all things music creation.
Being the lead facilitator at Beats Lab she has observed that songwriting is a powerful tool for mental health as young people will often open up about things during the songwriting process.
Annalise is looking forward to expanding her skill set and better supporting the young people’s wellbeing in collaboration with the already brilliant youth club wellbeing team.
Nathan Opong
(CLOUD5/SUR NATE)
GPYC vocal coaching from June 2025
Singer/Songwriter & Producer
Nathan is an aspiring full time musician who has a love for sharing his knowledge of his journey thus far with others who are hoping to embark on the same career path in music.
Nathan will be drawing on his extensive experiences as a studio vocalist, songwriter and live performer to coach our young people and support them in creating their best and most confident vocal takes they can be proud of forever! He’ll also nurture them to develop new technical skills as vocalists and rappers.
Rudy Green
Delivering sessions weekly
Beat maker/Instrumentalist
Rudy is another proud member of the core Beats Lab team and enjoys supporting young people in their musical development throughout the course of our projects. Rudy’s skill set is an interesting area, ranging from playing the Kora, playing guitar, beat making using audio samples and DJing.
Rudy will be encouraging young people to get playing instruments and try out audio sampling in Koala app to invent brand new music of their own.
He’ll be drawing on his wide skill set to support young aspiring musicians to imagine and produce unique and wonderful sonic creations beyond what they thought would be possible!
