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Matteo Stella - Maggio a Botontano
a closer listenFollow “Matteo Stella’s Radeche Fonne resists the pastoral temptation that often shadows music rooted in place. While deeply embedded in the…” 15 hrs ago →
Ptastvo - The Witch
a closer listenFollow “The Grit is one of the most striking documents to emerge from Ukraine this year. Written from the perspective of…” yesterday →
Anastasia Kristensen - Magpie Song
a closer listenFollow “Bestarium Sombre is a spiritual successor to Dominic Eulberg’s Mannigfaltig, a clubworthy album on which nearly every track is dedicated…” 3 days ago →
HWXXNG - Shift Key
a closer listenFollow “What is K-Core? In the hands of DJ HWXXNG (Jaeho Hwang), K-Core deconstructs traditional Korean music and refits it for…” 4 days ago →
Kreng - You Are Here
a closer listenFollow “Eleven years have passed since The Summoner was released, long enough for us to wonder if we’d ever hear from…” 5 days ago →
Johnny Bell - Departure Valley
a closer listenFollow “When Alabama sings “play me some mountain music,” they express their love for an Appalachian style of banjo-picking, heavily reliant…” 6 days ago →
Buildings and Food - Geese
a closer listenFollow “Yutori is the Japanese art of slowing down to create room for reflection. Literally translated as “room to breathe” or…” 7 days ago →
kyïvite - ballad of a soldier
a closer listenFollow “Earlier this year, we covered the first iteration of kyïvite‘s broadcast, which has since inspired two more broadcasts and attracted…” last week →
KINACT - Cercle de Tambour Kinact
a closer listenFollow “Kinshasa in Action is a unique release that represents something few outside of the Congo have ever seen: a street…” last week →
Francesco Pellegrino - Pray for the dead
a closer listenFollow “Cover art by @anita.intothewoods Francesco Pellegrino’s Wartime Monk emerges from a space where abstraction can no longer remain insulated from…” last week →
Luigi Turra (Scores by Sylvain Chauveau) - 13
a closer listenFollow “Cover artwork from Sylvain Chauveau’s #2 score In Diastima, Luigi Turra delivers what could be labelled “the Chauveau variations”—not because…” last week →
Mirt • Ter - Excerpt I
a closer listenFollow “Happy tenth anniversary to Poland’s Saamleng label, home to a remarkable run of 71 pure field recording releases. While the…” last week →
Deaf Center - A Second
a closer listenFollow “As Sonic Pieces writes, “the subject of time is an ambitious one,” tackled by Deaf Center on Through Time and…” last week →
OOH-sounds - tombal (feat. Pierre Bastien, Massimo Silverio, Marco Baldini)
a closer listenFollow “Cover photo by Sotiris Lamprou – Artwork by incepBOY On Hìeratico, Nicolas Remondino approaches sound as both matter and invocation,…” on Apr 25th →
Dea Bezhuashvili - Snow Queen
a closer listenFollow “The fourth iteration of the If Strangers project continues to refine a methodology that has, since its inception during pandemic…” on Apr 23rd →