a closer listen

Czech composers Floex & Jan Šikl team up for a cross-genre offering that blurs the lines between modern composition and electronics.

Leng Seong‘s Chinese-Malaysian-Italian heritage comes into play on Gweilo.

A sneak peek of Kyrie can be enjoyed on Star of Heaven‘s sumptuous album Live – Slow Tour from Öregrund, which we covered in 2023.

For more than twenty-five years, Laurent Jeanneau, aka Kink Gong, has been recording traditional music across Southeast Asia, while simultaneously transforming his vast archive into collages and electronic compositions.

“The map looks wide, but the choice is never free.

To paraphrase Charles Dickens, dusk is generally my time for walking.

Hildur Guðnadóttir celebrates two decades of music on This Will Be Us, placing old compositions in new skins with Robert Ames and the DSO Berlin.

Quality instrumental-based industrial music is in short supply these days, which makes Soliloquy // A Body Knows a modern gem.

Lea Bertucci and Michael Beharie team up as Bow and Arrow on a self-titled debut Bertucci describes as “devotional music for the age of alienation.”

Cicatrizes do Futuro droops in an ecstasy of fear, but Deafkids turn that fear into propulsion.

Solitarium bears all the hallmarks of a mid-career work from an artist practiced at his craft.

Solitarium bears all the hallmarks of a mid-career work from an artist practiced at his craft.

Once in a while it’s great to hear that the old ways are being honored, cherished and kept alive.