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Ümlaut - Distant Light
a closer listenFollow “At home, it’s natural to fill empty aural spaces with music, television or podcasts. But when we turn off such…” yesterday →
Emna Mâaref - Ouverture’25
a closer listenFollow “The title of Emna Mâaref‘s first solo full-length comes from a verse by the tenth-century Arab poet Abu Firas al-Hamdani,…” 3 days ago →
Rachel Shearer - Waha
a closer listenFollow “Black album covers are fairly rare; Prince’s The Black Album comes to mind, along with Thembi Soddell’s black-on-black Love Songs,…” 6 days ago →
Hour - Pearls
a closer listenFollow “Look at all those people! Everything seems bigger on Hour‘s newest album. There are fourteen people in the ensemble (four…” 7 days ago →
Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker - Sigils of Decay (for João da Cruz e Sousa)
a closer listenFollow ““There are black silences, like thunderclouds, that burst into flashes of music,” H. G. Wells writes in Select Conversations with…” last week →
Blair Coron - Isle of Canna, Midsummer, 5:54am, 2026
a closer listenFollow “Is Woven Ground an EP with an accompanying film, or a film with an accompanying EP? We’ll leave it to…” last week →
Sunken Cages - Kerala
a closer listenFollow “Neram Pularumbol (“As The Dawn Breaks”) finds Sunken Cages pulling the rhythmic traditions of South India into an electronic vocabulary…” last week →
Felice Sciorilli - Breaths
a closer listenFollow “Felice Sciorilli first graced our pages last spring, appearing on Biodiversità Records’ 14 Soundcapes with the track “Breaths.” At the…” last week →
Tegh & Adel Poursamadi - Toward The Vast Mountain رو به کوه بزرگ
a closer listenFollow “Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi’s The Mourners of Bayal (1964) remains one of the defining works of modern Iranian literature. Across eight interconnected…” last week →
Tasgeelat Al-Husni - تسجيلات الحُسني - Spacetune - سبيستيون
a closer listenFollow “Shell and Core takes its title from the unfinished concrete structures that have become fixtures of the Syrian landscape, and…” last week →
Adriano Zanni - Warosha
a closer listenFollow “Thematically, Post Dub Cities hearkens back to Future Sound of London’s Dead Cities, while tonally it recalls Murcof’s Rememberanza. Adriano…” last week →
TAKAAT - Ijit N’elwan 4
a closer listenFollow “By the third instalment of their Is Noise series, TAKAAT [pronounced tuh-cot and meaning “noise” in the Tuareg language Tamashek]…” on Sep 26th →
Giorgi Koberidze - Horsing around
a closer listenFollow “Listening to Crude Walnut Taste, it is tempting to focus on Giorgi Koberidze‘s compositional rigour: the electroacoustic transformations, the dialogue…” on Sep 25th →
Yara Mekawei & Amir Rezk - 33
a closer listenFollow “33 takes the traditional age of Christ at his death as the axis of a twelve-part electroacoustic cycle concerned with…” on Sep 24th →
Toni Geitani - Hal
a closer listenFollow “Across its seventeen tracks, Wahj brings together electronics, industrial textures, processed strings, Arabic vocal traditions and fractured rhythms in combinations…” on Sep 22nd →
Tony Njoku - A WORLD OF BODIES ON FIRE
a closer listenFollow “Tony Njoku‘s recent work has moved between open-ended instrumental composition and song. A WORLD OF BODIES ON FIRE continues this…” on Sep 21st →
Calum Builder - Where Can I Go? (Single Edit)
a closer listenFollow “A saxophonist by nature, Calum Builder couldn’t help but think of the brass instrument while salvaging old church organ pipes…” on Sep 20th →
al niente - I
a closer listenFollow “In musical notation, al niente means “to nothing”: a gradual fading until sound disappears. The title suits this debut by…” on Sep 19th →
Ervin Omsk - Der Saal tobt
a closer listenFollow “Photo by Vins Pedrata. Courtesy the artist Sven Fritz is an artist from Germany, who has various ongoing projects that…” on Sep 18th →
ABADIR - Habban
a closer listenFollow “After several records examining language (Pause/Stutter/Uh/Repeat), mutation (Mutate), liturgical memory (Ison), and the algorithmic logic of social media (Kitbashing), Abadir…” on Sep 17th →