Young Magic is the Brooklyn based collaboration between two Australian musicians (Isaac Emmanuel and Michael Italia) and Indonesian singer songwriter Melati Malay, who made it into our Best of NYC emerging artists poll last year (see our writeup about her here). This project sounds like a more mature development of the direction taken by Malay in her most recent solo material, in which world music influences are rendered through lush and atmospheric arrangements rich in percussions, layered electronic sounds and celestial choirs. The band recently signed to Carpark Records – their LP "Melt" is scheduled to be released on February 14th 2012.