a closer listen

It would be easy to describe Santur & Kamancheh for Electronics as an encounter between Iranian classical instruments and electroacoustic music. Fortunately, that is not what this album is about. Rather than treating tradition and experimentation as opposing worlds, Maryam Rahmani & David Esser allow them to coexist within the same acoustic s...

Sarah Davachi has topped our year-end chart twice, in 2018 and 2022 ~ sonically and mathematically, this may be her year yet again. Ambitious, immersive and enveloping, The Will of Tongues seems like the natural successor to Two Sisters...

Improvisations for the Land proceeds with unusual patience. Alessandro Ciccarelli and Milena Punzi Anfossi never seem in a hurry to introduce new material. Instead, they linger over individual sounds, allowing them to exhaust their possibilities before searching for another direction. At several points the music appears to reach an i...

Across eight untitled pieces, fold/interval develops a musical language in which guitar dyads, granular electronics, filtered resonances and microscopic digital artefacts coexist within carefully articulated sonic environments. By directing attention towards the behaviour of sound itself, its texture, spectral balance and the constantly shifting relationships between...

SIRIUS is not a soundtrack that tries to justify its existence beyond the material it was originally created for. What Noah Rosa does is to open it up as a conversation with different artists.

A cold wintry tone introduces the album.  A glacial wind sweeps through. The score unfolds through slow transformations with harmony moving almost imper...