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At 12, Leonie Jakobi wanted to sound like Bon Jovi. Today, the singer has found her own voice, and her own style - and has come full circle on her new single.
With a background in jazz and inspired by Frank Zappa and Edgard Varèse early on, Jason Kriveloff's take on house was always going to be different. Recorded while going through serious health issues, his new EP is a triumph of life teaming with individuality.
A series of sonic postcards with an all-embracing reach and a profound emotional impact.
"Many of the positives we associate with the music industry are actually a result of technology rather than anything the industry itself is doing."
The songs of the Australian duo float in soft, psychedelic fluid – as if each note, every word and the next chord were sent to them from an alternate, liminal space.
Florin doesn't think of himself as a fairly limited instrumentalist. In the piano trio Dig Dug Dug, those limitations lead to a direct and unromantic sound, bound- and borderless interactions - and plenty of surprises.
Virtual and physical reality merge on this time-travelling fusion of rock, jazz, and electronica – a perfect representation of the present moment.
“Songs can help us see things in a new way … and that is empowering.“
Saxophonist Tara Sarter doesn't believe anything is better than anything else. On her latest album, this simple creed translates to one of the most unconventional visions of the jazz trio format.
Tobias Fischer reflects on how the death of one of Germany's biggest singers created an infinite loop.
Aiming for the border between divine ecstasy and extreme horror, the doom metal trio “saturate the acoustic space and overtone series in an attempt to sever the listener’s consciousness from the past and the future.”
The Thai drummer's global take on jazzy funk is so dreamy and groovy that it all but belies her real intention: To hit as many things at once as she possibly can.
Soulful, sultry, and smooth, Tasha LaRae's Right Now is a feast for lovers of deep vocal house. Every track stays true to her goal: Expressing every emotion she holds inside.
OHYUNG firmly intends to be a pop star. Their new album has all the right hooks, infectuous melodies, and sultry beats – but bathes them in an otherworldly twilight.
Scott Walker’s Tilt “objectively” inspired the majestic trance-states of the New England fivepiece – never fully discharging, perpetually in a state of feverish suspension.
Inspired by his Latin roots and applying techniques of Sushi preparation to his productions, the new album by the Pillowtalk member is a joyful collection of infectious house songs.
Olafur Arnalds is a fan, but Burial is an inspiration: VRAELL re-defines the borders between producer, songwriter, and composer.
The Cuban singer-songwriter's voice shines brighter than ever on Ritual. But it's the big communal choruses, performed without a metronome, which brought most joy to her.
Terrible or incredible? The trio's hypertechnical metal turns towards storytelling.
Emerging from skeletal sketches, the global-minded duo's expansive new album is driven by the synergy between words and sounds and the beauty hidden in misunderstandings.
Embracing multimediality, and multidisciplinarity, Gryvul navigates between radical sound art, Ukrainian folk-themes and inventive ensemble work.
A state of suspension, a feeling of voluntary submission: This music needs to exist.
“Part of the role of an artist is to determine if an idea is worth exploring.”
Faced with big, burning questions, Verena Zeiner accepted her responsibility as an artist – responding with radical care and a new-found musical freedom.
With Spiral Deluxe, the Detroit keyboard player is shaping his vision of a bright future – between the acoustic and the electric, tradition and progress, jazz and house.
Unleashing an Arctic Post Metal Inferno, the Norwegian band clearly feel strongly about transmitting energy. Their goal: To help listeners raise their voices.
Based on an old French theatrical production, the Tuxon, AZ band created a trip of latinamerican rhythms and deep songwriting - a challenge they wouldn't care to do again any time soon.
On Ghosts Between Streams, triggered by observations of ecological destruction, the environmental impact is “both the subject and the work itself.”
Is every sound we hear loaded with associations with our past? On the first album of his new project – a collage of beats, sequences, personal messages and blocks of sound - Matteo Liberatore is determined to find out.
Watch this space – in her songs and performances, the British songwriter is digging deep into the new and unknown of a genre she has a funny relationship with.
The Dutch indie rock trio are finding beauty in a fucked up world - always looking for the suckerpunch in the most mundane things.
Inspired by “long days and nights that stretched into the morning”, the hypnagogic music of Aregger's trio moulds sensuality and suspense into “moments where the energy boils beneath the surface.”
Utopian jazz: Music so beautiful that it makes you experience and long for a better world.
The Nigerian-British singer and lyricist wants to leave an imprint and offer a true representation of who she is. On her soulful and stripped-down debut album, she's come pretty close to that ideal.
The “rebel sound” marries true lyricism with a border- and genreless sound that is dark, powerful and uplifting all at once.
For her new album, Aimée Portioli processed, pitched and arranged wind recordings. The result is a veritable force of nature – and possibly the most powerful piece of sound art you'll hear this year.
“If more people approached communication the way musicians do, so many conflicts could dissolve effortlessly.”
Ahead of a new Barbican premiere, the experimental vocalist speaks about her practise, disrupting semantic sense and her love for how people say the things they say.
Martial arts and creative remembering are guiding principles for the piano-percussion duo. Their debut album incorporates moments of intimacy, sonic sculpting and suspenseful drum rolls.
Wherever the Hamburg duo may go - the next big melancholic chorus is always right around the corner.
No plans, no concepts. Just honesty and vulnerability: On an impressionist, bittersweet new trio album, Mathias Landæus is once again surrendering to the flow.
Kuunatic play psychedelic rock on traditional Japanese instruments. Their process involves science fiction, mythology - and burning incense from Kyoto's Nanzen-ji Temple.
There is a lot of space in Füting's compositions – filled with echoes of the past, an embrace of magic and the will to break it.
Propelled by two drummers, the quartet are looking for patterns between hypnosis and deconstruction, tactile grooves and grainy texture.
Cuban folk, Nu Soul, dreamy acoustics and uplifting beats - everything flows naturally on the new JOHNNYSWIM album. Aptly, writing songs feels like water to them.
“We must respect the great music of the past, and create something new,” moog master Yumiko Ohno says. To do this, she keeps her antennae open to jazz and electronica, installations, and DJ sets.
Aggression and vulnerability blend in the trios' fuzzy indie rock. Revealing their darkest thoughts opens up a space of hope.
From Kraftwerk and Cabaret Voltaire via Eric Clapton and Depeche Mode to OMD and Black Sabbath - Denis Blackham's masterings have made the world of music a better one.
From Protection-era Massive Attack via modular-synth-fantasies to stripped-down melancholia, Nite Kite is exploring personality over progress.
Hong Kong’s Cantopop is a joyful fusion of Eastern and Western influences. Now, TC:KYLIE adds jazz and historically charged soundscapes to the equation.
Even after five decades, Fisher Turner is still just "making it up."
Spinnen write edgy, from-the-dark-corners-of-the-basement drum-and-guitar post-punk anthems. The lyrics, however, imbue them with a “light that permeates the body.”
Damascus and New York are the pillars of Kinan Azmeh's world. His intensely spiritual, ecstatically still music, however, is bound to no genre or place.
Ambient guitarist Takuro Okada wants to play as if he were looking at water and grasping a cloud.
Mehr's immersive installation SUPRA may sound enchanting. But its themes are serious: Unless we take action, we are headed for epochal changes.
Miles Davis made Hino realise jazz is the ultimate form of music: Ageless, colourless, cool, sexy, sad, chaotic and funky like hell.
The post-punk band's new release captures them at their most raw and intense: Sounds cutting like knives, words turning to swords.
Tapping into sampling and working with experimental performance approaches, Joona Toivanen still heads one of the most unique piano trios we know.
First, Febriani spent time in the Indonesian forest. Then, she translated the inspiratio into stripped-down, bass-heavy percussion-funk.
The French quintet shape their own vision of 21st century jazz, soul, and hip hop – seducing the mind, but keeping the body engaged.
“With the kind of tone I have, one bottle of Bourbon and two packs of cigarettes a day would probably help. But I am not that disciplined.”
Much of today's popular dance music is a "deliberate rip-off of the past," according to van Dyk. But what is the solution?
Is the Swiss composer's new album a piece of ghostly resonances? A sculpture? Or is it just a space in which it exists as a sonic sculpture?
Lutz Krajenski's plays, collects, and restores Hammond organs. On his new album, he now fuses them with hiphop beats.
Sound is almost all-important for David Grubbs. His new collection of "distorted poems" is intense testimony to that.
"My music reflects the challenges of the world I live in while expressing the values I hold dear. Music is not just an art form - it’s a tool for a better future."
Gabríel Ólafs imagines what a world of ice would sound like – rejecting the notion that there could ever be too much reverb.
Haunting and quietly intense, pianist Benjamin Lackner's second album for ECM is a work of beauty slowly descending into darkness.
"I’ve always been drawn to music that has different degrees of weirdness to it."
Experience and the search for essence have turned the French electro duo into architects of sound.
The Moroccan-Yemeni singer has a voice and an on-stage presence that takes her audience on a rollercoaster ride. It's a blessing and a responsibility.
"Music can inspire, and bridge ethnic, religious, and political divides. As a musician and a composer, I want this to be my focus."
In his late 20s and mesmerised by Berlin's 24/7 party life, the German songwriter didn't get anything done. It turned out to be the most creative time of his life.
The legendary DJ looks back on 40 years behind the turntables - on the art of storytelling, the navigation between control and surrender.
“The best way is to DJ like a producer and to produce like a DJ.“
For their new album of baroque music, the ensemble found inspiration in Irish synth folk and Mariah Carey. Who cares what Handel would have thought?
A tiny tool caught every tremor and every hesitation of Garcia's hand. Her new album is a work of of fragile, heartfelt guitar noise.
Every improvisation is about the state of the world for saxophonist Nicole Johänntgen. It is also a “body language.”
Miramar's bittersweet bolero anthems find endless fascination in the "human social experience" and the relationship between joy and pain.
Shibuya's oeuvre questions the nature of death, offering a new romanticism through the eyes and ears of AI.
“I strongly believe that community is key to fighting injustice. Music is one way to build communities.”
As masters of Back to Back DJing, the French duo are constantly in conversation through music.
Jazz-Ambient-Rap-Drone composer Ralph Heidel still “fucks up a lot.” But he's confident “the audience still knows what I’m trying to say.”
In the prayer-like realm of “Moya,” Selaocoe translates African musical languages to the cello.
"Before we think too hard about freedom we should start by focusing on kindness."
“I feed off the audience's energy, and amplify it through the music. It’s a constant exchange.“
The legendary French composer and arranger (Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy) still writes music "like they did in the 17th century."
The almost frighteningly intense noise-rock of the Dutch trio is inspired by a longing for the unexpected.
Improvisation is everywhere on Ebba Åsman's hip-hop-infused torch songs. But she doesn't need to sound like her jazz heroes to honour them.
"I’m definitely revealing deep secrets and singing about uncomfortable truths."
"Sound is one of society’s core expressions. It’s one of its identification marks."
A conversation about “sucking music through the pores," becoming a sound field, and extreme sonic experiences.
With the trio Cici Arthur, Cummings connects with his inner world – and his experiences with the "shittier aspects of showbusiness."
"If producion gets a lot more easy, it's gonna take the fun out of it."
"You have to live a very full life to channel something meaningful to the audience."
"I’m often moved by sounds where the organic meets the digital."
"Music gives us the strength to stand together against anyone who’s trying to destroy inclusivity and freedoms."
"I live right by the S-Bahn and listen to that for hours. It’s kind of irritating and comforting at the same time."
"I only believe in variations on what already exists. But the range of variation is infinite."
"We tend to use our imaginations so much more when receiving information through sound."
"We like to bring technology to the forefront and play with it."
"I like when the score is a little removed from what’s happening on screen."
"Ego is not about being the best. It just gives me a lot of self-awareness and self-confidence to be able to express myself."
"To sing is to convey a message from the soul - in any way the song calls for."
"We can’t just hide from it and hope it all works out."
“Drummers are natural leaders. They lead bands they play in even when it is not official.”
"In a time when developments tend to draw people apart, creating something as a democratic collective is, in itself, a political act."
"There is something in singing that makes humans similar to the wind, to birds, to the flow of water, to the falling of rain."
"I am always asking why things are so messed up? That topic is unfortunately always relevant."
“Reimagining our songs in a nonlinear environment and creating a two-way interaction between ourselves and the audience is very exciting for us.“
"Singing should be accessible to everyone - not only ‘allowed’ to a few."
"I wanted to record the lids of 20-30 coffins slamming shut. The label and sound engineer refused to help me."
"The evolution of human music may go back to sex. This would bring the music of other species further inside our radius of understanding."
"I try to sublimate negative feelings via music. When I come to my family, my friends, my tribe, I won’t put these things on them."
“My goal was to compose loop-based music that is calming and meditative but never dull.“
"It’s incredible to think that something I created nearly three decades ago still resonates with people."
"Punk and Hip Hop stand for the same thing: breaking the rules and doing things your way."
"My intentions for using silence are very different from those of John Cage."
“Avoiding trends and focusing on authenticity is key to taking electronic music into the future.“
“Hip Hop is the largest and most comprehensive subculture that has ever existed.“
"Being innovative and having a personal voice is part of the tradition. It isn't opposed to it."
“If you only have 3 or 4 elements, but they are used deliberately, you can unravel the flavor layers the longer you play the track.“
“The conception that 4/4 is kind of the “normal“ thing is super unrealistic.”
“Being an artist means offering a more or less unique experience that truly reflects who you are.“
"I’m obsessed with what it all means. Trying to understand and find deep appreciation in our total existence."
"There is only one rule: does the music have an effect on me? Anything that doesn't fulfil this rule can go."
"I prefer a song that is poorly written, even intentionally bad, rather than a song that is trying to be good but is mediocre."
"These are more than mere recordings. They are a narrative of a rapidly changing landscape."
“In Brazil I make my beats way more percussive. In China, the clap is the most important part in the groove rather than the kick.“
"Christian's hurdy gurdy rhythm reminded me of the Agikuyu tribe from Central Kenya."
“I owe much of my ability to be caring toward others to learning the violin.“
"Intercultural collaborations push me to reinvent my role as a musician every single time."
“I have never played the same set twice. I even used to never play the same track twice.“
“The rustling of wind through trees, birdsong, and human voices are not separate elements. They're part of a cohesive soundscape.“
“My love of this music never subsides. I just have to wade through a lot of shit in order to find it.“
"People think that Krautrock must have a motorik beat. But there was so much more new and fresh stuff in Krautrock."
“Autobahn is still special to me.“
"Most of the feedback I get is, “this song helped me with a breakup.” Sounds right to me."
“I have to go in without any expectations - I always seem to find something unexpected.“
"Music is a form of communication. Sometimes you even communicate with yourself."