Our Recommendations for You - Last Updated 25/09/2026
// Jazz & Improv //
Stephanie Borgani:
Some claim that music begins where words end. For Stephanie Borgani, this thought defines her approach to singing. Treating her voice as an instrument and blending into the sound of a chamberjazz ensemble, her motivations may be political, but the music is simply and uniquely captivating.
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Lisa Stick:
The quartet Lisa Stick assembled for a performance at Cologne's Loft club manages to pack a considerable inspirational punch with remarkable elegance of tone. It's music between mood and sculpture: You can all but see the airstreams from the reeds, physically sense the groove.
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Thomas Farmer of Empirical:
Through the lockdown and many iterations, the new Empirical album grew from a core of concentrated cells into an epic, orchestrated suite. The artwork's lava stream captures the unstoppable force of the music and its smouldering tension: Cool to the touch, but fiercely passionate inside.
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// Electronic Music, Hip Hop //
Light Conductor:
On the quarter of an hour long “Supercontinent”, Light Conductor ignite a cosmic maelstrom of pounding kicks, apocalyptic sweeps and scintillating pads. Incomparable and brutally repetitive, massive and utterly overwhelming, this is the sound of galaxies collapsing.
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Lil Cherry:
For Lil Cherry, hip-hop will always be a way of life, because “without living life to the fullest, there is no story worth telling.” In tandem with her congenial creative partner GOLDBUUDA, her lyrical prowess gets embedded into distorted drum machine deliria and gloriously glossy melodies.
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GOLDBUUDA :
“Genre is going to matter less and worlds are going to matter more. An artist won’t just be a releasing songs. Music, visuals, fashion, characters, games, communities, live experiences — they're starting to become one language.”
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// Sound Art, Experimental Music //
Courant Zéro:
Somehow, you can hear Maxime Corbeil-Perron's background as a drummer in the dense and mostly beatless dreamscapes of his Courant Zéro project. Spaces of cathedral splendour open up, illuminated by sacral sounds moving slowly but insistently, caught in neverending hallucinatory drift.
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Felix Kubin & Asmus Tietchens:
Felix Kubin had composed a pool of short radio IDs, compressing entire acoustic worlds in the span of seconds. Collaborating with Asmus Tietchens, the duo reworked these IDs as extensions into imagined acoustic space – this is the sound beyond all transmissions.
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Hans P. Kjorstad:
Our response to sound is a lot like picking blueberries, Hans P. Kjorstad feels. The image fits the composer's new release, which offers his personal take on Norwegian folk. Conjuring quiet magic and probing the spaces between tones, Kjorstad keeps taking a different route through the forest.
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// Rock, Indie, Folk //
Sandra St. Victor:
What good is a big voice if you're not going to use it to say something meaningful? Musically, Sandra St. Victor's “Eleven” is an epic gumbo of boogie, electronica, soul and funk. Thematically, it captures her take on injustice, relationships, empowerment – and anything that pisses her off.
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Joseph Arthur:
The words to Joseph Arthur's "Honey and the Moon," dealing with trust, timing and answering machines, didn't just feel like he was singing about my life – in a way, he was. Arthur calls this “shadow work on the page” - as intimate as may get, you're never just singing about yourself.
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Animal Invisível:
If your headphones could pick which music to play, they'd choose “Animal Invisível.” The brainchild of composer-guitarist Guri Assis, his demo-disc-level debut weaves a utopian cocoon from 70s spiritual soul, sweet funk and electronica that makes you believe in human goodness again.
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// Classical, Neoclassical, and Contemporary Composition //
Gabriel Cabezas:
One of Gabriel Cabezas' most fascinating teaching exercises for his students is to play pieces “incorrectly” with utmost commitment. Strong decisions are at the core of all his interpretations, rendering none definitive and no perspective invalid.
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Calum Builder:
Calum Builder's (Re)constructed Pipe Organ, a futuristic instrument built from decomissioned pipes, looks like it was lifted straight from David Cronenberg's dream diary. The music the composer creates with it is of a hallucinatory otherness, a transmutation of breath and space into spirit.
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Sofi Paez:
Sofie Paez's “Bodies of Water” was inspired by”The Old Man and the Sea,” melodies moving and curling like waves, searching for fluidity. But the water references are metaphors for something deeper: Our connection to the ocean inside of us, a state of surrender to and through sound.
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