a closer listen

Rudyard Kipling’s classic poem If receives an intense, long-awaited score in the new album from Ranges. Perhaps best known for th...

artwork by Mariia Prymachenko

This month, we travel to Montreal, where Bogdan Gumenyuk talks about the Carpathian Mountains and jazz, striking a hopeful note. Back in Ukraine, Solimpulse talks about uncertainty in Zhytomyr and the inevitable influence of war on music. Kostya Leontovich in...

The Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia writes in Metamorphoses that “every living being is legion”, each species a patchwork of other species, with forms continually fading into and engendering one another. Something similar happens on SLIKBACK and KMRU‘s collaborative EP, ENEO.

On the face of it, SLIKBACK and KMRU a...

Grief is a great generator of art. Breakups have inspired countless celebrated songs and albums, as has the death of loved ones. The combination of the two can be overwhelming. Lebanese musician Ralph Chbeir tackles pain in an understated way on Brief Encounters, a collection of intimate recordings whose tenderness is all the more affecting f...

“A judgment of perception is imperfectly verified by repetition”, wrote American ethnologist John Wesley Powell in his 1898 treatise Truth and Error. On Verdad y Error, Mexican violinist Gibrana Cervantes puts repetition to rather different ends, processing, distorting and multiplying her instrument until, in her own words, it begins...