Our Recommendations for You - Last Updated 07/09/2026
// Jazz & Improv //
Helene Glüxam:
Performed using just her double bass, voice and a few effects, Helene Glüxam's “Nachtvogel” is an exercise in austerity. Despite the album's imagery of “night,” “winter,” and “moon,” these pieces do not refer to darkness, but a state when the clock stops ticking and the racing mind comes to rest.
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Linda Sikhakhane:
Linda Sikhakhane will not be silenced. With each new album, the South African saxophonist has edged closer to global recognition on the strength of creative determination and an intense flow. There is something magical about his work - a transfer of urban coolness into the domain of spirituality.
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Julius Schwing:
Whatever experimental improv we listen to, what we hear is mostly noise. When we can't lock into it, it disturbs us. When it's Julius Schwing at the guitar we find it fascinating. Focusing on pulse, color and coordination, his pickings create hypnotic patterns that can neither be denied nor ignored.
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// Electronic Music, Hip Hop //
Oo KiDo:
Sensual, resonant and gorgeously layered, the French producer's electronica is powerful in its own right. The accompanying, intricately related videos, however, lead you even deeper: Filled with rich colours, emotive streams and mesmerising movements, they are phrase and fantasy all at once.
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Linska:
For Linska, art is the one space that promises complete freedom and does not require compromise. The sonic force of her peaktime techno productions is already political in its own right. Combined with her lyrics, however, they turn into calls for action: to “fuck the system” and live your own life.
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Anthony Baldino:
It feels wrong to only talk to Anthony Baldino about modulars. His upcoming album is a heartbreaking processing of pain and loss, a journey to a place of no return. And yet, the tools were decisive: These emotional states come to life only on this canvas and only through precisely these colours.
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// Sound Art, Experimental Music //
Barbara Ellison:
The Irish sound artist and composer thinks of the pieces on her new album as “sonic phantoms”, creations that behave with a logic of their own, escaping the grasp of our pre-conditioned mind. Instantly captivating and hauntingly elusive, they remind us of the mysterious nature of reality.
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Late Bush:
Historically informed performance wants classical pieces played the way they were in their own time. For Late Bush, meanwhile, any interpretation is part of a “speculative tradition.” His work “Hoarses” creates a hyper-real space filled with echoes of baroque ensemble play and haunting voices.
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Max Devereaux and Alec Watson:
“I had the feeling when we met that we were either going to make something really brutal or really pretty, and I wanted to figure out which one it was going to be.”
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// Rock, Indie, Folk //
Angus & Julia Stone:
Sometimes we cry because we're happy. Sometimes we dance because we're sad. These are the liminal states that the songs of Julia and Angus Stone take place in. Filled with quiet voices and delicate sounds, their “Karaoke Bar” is a place for sharing without shame.
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Josh Ottum:
As part of an ambitious plan, Josh Ottum will publish a new album every full moon. It is a challenge as much as it is a compulsion and a way of life: All of the pieces are connected, all of the albums linked. The project will change him as a person, he says. If you join him, it may change you, too.
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Late Again:
Lyrically, Rafael Melo goes deep on his upcoming EP, exploring the distance “between the life you imagine and the one you're living”. Musically, meanwhile, his songs feel like a sunny version of shoegaze, floating on gentle grooves and providing a cool breeze in the heart of Summer.
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// Classical, Neoclassical, and Contemporary Composition //
Sarah Davachi:
“This isn't easy listening,” the press release to Davachi's upcoming LP warns. I beg to differ. Built from long-form compositions for organ, choir and strings, it is a sensual and instantly gratifying experience that will leave you profoundly moved long after the last, solemn note has died down.
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Sophia Vastek:
Trust, community and friendship are at the core of Sophia Vastek's work – forces that take on elemental qualities in her hands. Her latest compositions lead the listener into a private place – filled with nostalgia, ghostly whispers and a promise of something very big about to happen.
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Tönky Hönk:
“We can go into any performance fully convinced by our rehearsal process and the thought we’ve put into an interpretation, but listeners may pull out wildly different experiences than we’d imagined."
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