Vyva Melinkolya has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 9 episodes and was first played on 31 May 2023.

Vyva Melinkolya is a solo music project by Angel Diaz, a transgender artist, musician, and photographer living out of Pittsburgh, PA. She is originally from Louisville, KY.

The elements of her sound are a mixing pot of previous, lumbering music, such as western Slowcore, the likes of Chelsea Wolfe, Low, and Jesu, and, in particular, 1990's Shoegaze. Even so, Vyva Melinkoyla proves to be a standing project of original, contemporary, droning noise, with heavy lyricism and soft melodies.

Vyva Melinkoyla, her self-titled debut, came out…