Album Premiere: FAUNA by Wings for Louise

Pianist & composer Charly Martin has been creating introspective musical journeys under the name Wings for Louise for the better part of five years now. Citing the styles of Yann Tiersen and M83 as reference points, the project draws on Martin’s varied background from composing for film and theater to early forays into post-rock, electronica,…

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TRACK PREMIERE: Tides by Deepriver

Deepriver is a recently formed intercontinental project from Jason van Wyk, based in Cape Town, and Joni Ljungqvist, based in Stockholm. With Volume One set for release next month on n5MD, the two musicians open a new chapter in a long history of collaboration dating back over a decade. The project, which Van Wyk subtly…

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VIDEO PREMIERE: Green-Yellow Field by Blue Lake

Blue Lake is the moniker chosen by multidisciplinary artist Jason Dungan for his instrumental music project. A self-taught musician born in America and currently based in Denmark, Dungan has spent time freely experimenting with self-built instruments, such as his own hybrid 48-string zither, which he blends with percussion, woodwinds, and other stringed instruments to create…

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VIDEO PREMIERE: Stillhetens hav II by Vargkvint

Since her impressive DIY album debut Brus in 2017, multi-talented artist Sofia Nystrand has enchanted listeners with the music of Vargkvint, her solo music project which draws its inspiration from the oceans, forests and folklore of her native Sweden. 2019 saw the release of her concept album Hav, a record steeped in the folklore, language,…

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ALBUM PREMIERE: Golden Waves by Tom Adams

Tom Adams is a critically acclaimed artist living and working in Cornwall, England whose recorded output spans a broad emotional spectrum and a diverse array of musical styles from melancholic piano-ambient works and intimate vocal performances to synth driven electronic beats and distortion-driven walls of sound. Wherever in this expansive and eclectic range he is…

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PREMIERE: Unity (Mike Lazarev CrO2 Reduction) by Diana Yukawa

When she released Spirals in the winter of 2022, composer & violinist Diana Yukawa was sharing a collection of music informed by a number of life experiences. The songs were developed over a period that spanned the birth of her first two children and the outbreak of a global pandemic all while adapting to life…

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VIDEO: The Dark Opens the Way (Markus Guentner Remix) by GALÁN / VOGT 

It was the fall of 2021 when Spanish composer Pepo Galán and Australian dream pop vocalist/musician Karen Vogt (now based in Paris) unveiled their first album as GALÁN / VOGT. The Sweet Wait is a mesmeric weave of dark ambient, dream pop, shoegaze, slowcore, experimental, drone and neo-classical music equally indebted to the potency of…

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PREMIERE: Straight Jacket by Bob Holroyd

As one of the UK’s foremost electronic composers and producers, Bob Holroyd has been making music over a period of four decades. His work has covered a broad spectrum from cult club classics and DJ’ing festivals to soundtrack work for major film & TV productions and a variety of music libraries. Holroyd’s solo projects have also…

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ALBUM PREMIERE: Windscale by Last Days

From the very first album Graham Richardson released under the moniker of Last Days 17 years ago until now, the Edinburgh-based composer and sound artist has created music that can be described as cinematic in the truest sense. Deftly blending tone, texture, and melody in the service of clear-eyed narrative themes, each release is sonically…

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