Our Recommendations for You - Last Updated 12/06/2026
// Jazz & Improv //
VARV:
“Transit” refers to the process of moving something from one place to another. On their sophomore full-length, the Italian duo turn this process into the focal point, shaping their stimulatingly anti-formulaic post-jazz anthems into islands on a journey of perpetual becoming.
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Jon Onabowu:
"Artists create change by refusing to make music that explains itself, that justifies itself, that apologises for itself. You build the world you want people to inhabit and you trust them to step inside."
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Ferg's Imaginary Big Band:
Fergus Quill's ensemble is more than a “big band.” At around 25 performers, it is a full-fledged jazz orchestra whose sheer existence in a time of efficiency and downsizing is, in itself, an act of defiance. Their sound is pulverising, their noise political, smashing the almighty algorithms to bits.
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// Electronic Music, Hip Hop //
Janus Rasmussen:
With track titles like "Doom," "Evil," and "Blame," Rasmussen's "Inert" seems to be a cycle of dark, autumnal introspection. The music, however, less club-oriented and featuring more of his intimate vocals than before, is dreamy and light, obsessed with love, deliverance, and goodness.
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Marcel Vogel:
Everything is connected for DJ/producer Marcel Vogel: Different styles, different scenes, the past and the present, life and creativity. To be an artist means to embrace being part of the cornucopia and to tap into the abundance – every track and each performance is a new opportunity for growth.
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Gigi Masin:
As a listener, Gigi Masin's are open, but his gaze is between seeing and not seeing. On his LP Movement, an intricate weave of sensual textures and suggestive piano/trumpet licks animated by motoric electronics, the music does the same – putting you in a space between hearing and not hearing.
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// Sound Art, Experimental Music //
Jon Catler:
The guitarist's new work, written for multi-tracked electric guitar in Just Intonation, takes listeners on a journey into and through sound, spiralling beyond the confines of music. Within the cosmic continuum, there are no frets, just infinite intervals, all sounding together in unity.
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Abul Mogard:
Abul Mogard's music defines relationships between the mind and imagined spaces. In them, everything is transient and very little is solid, sound travelling from distant shores to reach the ear as whispers at the threshold of audibility. There's almost nothing here – and yet, you can't turn away.
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Lucie Antune:
Recorded in a stable-turned-studio, Antune's new album is an emotional meditation on death and silence. The results are restless, alien and transcendent, somewhere between the sublime and utter violence. It's an act of sharing taken to the extreme - this is what writing about pain really feels like.
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// Rock, Indie, Folk //
Elaha Soroor:
The first collaboration between singer-songwriter Elaha Soroor and production trio Kefaya had a meditative quality to it. Possibly triggered by a world in disarray, their new single plugs in the sequencers, and crashes them head-first into dervish drumming and Hazara influences to anthemic effect.
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Kefaya:
Multinational psychedelic rock trio Kefaya and Afghan vocalist Elaha Soroor understand chaos as the food for rebellion, confusion as the true nature of revolution. Their exhilerating new album is a scream against silence, a slap in the face of polite neutrality, world music for a planet in crisis.
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ISQ:
"I don't always begin with lyrics, but they ultimately become the most important element," says Irene Serra. Her bittersweet new single makes this abundantly clear. And yet, it is only through music that this letter to a loved one lost gets delivered backwards in time, trancending the limits of words.
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// Classical, Neoclassical, and Contemporary Composition //
Sarah Rothenberg:
“Daring” is not a word you hear often in classical music. To pianist Sarah Rothenberg it is pivotal for picking the pieces for her programs: Repertoire too daring for its time, so daring it questions your ideas about music, so daring it still sets your pulse racing 200 years after it was written.
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Jérémie Ternoy:
The music of composer, pianist and former Magma-collaborator Jérémie Ternoy explores "how an extremely reduced motif can open up an immense listening space." His new album, a mesmerising trance-pulsation, obliterates every notion of repetition, heading straight towards the point where parallels meet.
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Keir GoGwilt:
For Keir GoGwilt, the task of a composer is to organise sound to create "new constellations of meaning." And truly, his upcoming "Zarabanda Variations" includes a "Baroque Concerto" that both feels like an homage and will blow your mind. It's deep, it's research, it's endlessly stimulating.
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