Our Recommendations for You - Last Updated 17/04/2026
// Jazz & Improv //
Rob Luft:
“I’m a firm believer in the age-old cliché that jazz music flourishes best in dimly-lit basements hosting informal live performances that run into the early hours of the morning!”
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Willy Rodriguez:
The most incisive moment in Willy Rodriguez' development occurred when he started to treat the drums as the fundamental shaper of time and texture. For him, percussion marks the music's pulse - which in turn connects to the artist's heart and the infinite possibilities of creative expression.
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Jonas Sorgenfrei:
Many artists use albums as a leader to put themselves in the spotlight. On “Cracks in the Silence”, Jonas Sorgenfrei takes a different route: His propulsive beats are the perfect stage for his formidable band to take off – which in return makes his multifaceted compositions shine even brighter.
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// Electronic Music, Hip Hop //
Reagan Grey:
The studio is a launch pad for the Canadian producer's sonic excursions. Intimate nightscapes take turns with jazzy undertones, as she channels her love for house into cosmic trips underneath the starlight. Perfecting these kinetic moments takes time – but that's what art is all about to her.
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us & sparkles:
Political messages in music often feel like one-way preaching. us & sparkles' new album of immersive jazz house is more of a state that you enter, allowing you to see the world in a different light. It signals the desire to listen – this is an artist who really wants to spend time with you.
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Ciel & Mathis Ruffing:
Ciel and Mathis Ruffing's new EP is true fusion of two worlds. Intricate sound design and alien sound effects collide with soulful textures and hypnotic drumwork. Especially the more atmospheric cuts all but scream for a full-length follow-up – which may well happen now the two have become friends.
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// Sound Art, Experimental Music //
Hannah Peel:
“I prefer scores that don’t tell us how to feel, that support the narrative and characters and allows us viewers to escape without thinking about it. The composer is there and magically they are not, without anyone noticing!”
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Anouk Genthon:
When Anouk Genthon speaks about the debut album of trio Tangent Mek, she recounts how improvisation guided composition and how important sound was to their overall vision. But she also mentions conversations, travels, and memories – it's a radical ritual with a gentle induction.
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Christina Kubisch:
Christina Kubisch's work is akin to alchemy, turning “non-music” into “music” and elevating “non-sounds” to the audible realm. Materials and specific sites influence her compositions - to the point where they grow into their full state only at the place they're performed at.
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// Rock, Indie, Folk //
New German Cinema:
Songwriting can be an act of gaining control, an uncovering of hidden patterns. For Jess Weiss's solo debut away from her dream pop trio Fear of Men, it's the exact opposite: A deep dive into contradiction and chaos, a “current of something much darker or more unstable.”
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They Might Be Giants:
Some artists have to drill their way into the tanks of creativity. TMBG just turn on the tap and let it flow. Their epic catalogue of sprawling albums is an inspiring testimongy to the endlessness of human imagination – although, as they reveal, being this prolific is not a choice but a compulsion.
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Mae Stephens:
As a little girl, the British soul singer would sing to herself for comfort. Now, she is bringing consolation & confidence to others. Her songs are emotional electricity, her voice is a line on a monitor synced directly with her heart – you can't get any closer to her than by listening to her sing.
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// Classical, Neoclassical, and Contemporary Composition //
Akira Kosemura:
Akira Kosemura's quiet classic Polaroid Piano is re-issued with bonus tracks and a careful remastering by Lawrence English. Fifteen years have passed, but the music - an oasis of tender, breathing, deliberately anti-glossy fantasies - is still as captivating as it was upon its first release.
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Emil Mark:
There is a cuteness to the refined compositions that Emil Mark coaxes out of a small ensemble of sampled practice-room pipe-organs. But the light - literally airy - sound of his virtual orchestra is merely an invitation to go deeper - and sink fully into these rotating cyclical patterns.
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Ilan Eshkeri:
Eshkeri's latest project began with a singularity: The desire to translate the indescribable nature of the soundless cosmos into music. His audiovisual live performance Space Station Earth may well be the most ambitious composition he's ever written – and possibly the most personal one as well.
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