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Our Recommendations for You - Last Updated 13/10/2026
// Jazz & Improv //
Emily Kuhn:
The composer's new work is a landscape painted in the shades of Winter. You can almost smell the freshness of the air, every trumpet line pristine, golden and resonant like the world at dusk. This delicate music is not descriptive of nature – it is its own environment, a place of refuge.
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Sarah Heneghan:
When it comes to jazz, Sarah Heneghan is what you might call a "lateral entrant,“ having found her way in via detours and adjacent styles. It's why her music, stretching from pastoral textures to minimalist pattern-bliss, defies purity in pursuit of connection, expression and the urge to create.
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Sebastian Zawadzki:
Underneath the surface of Sebastian Zawadzki's new piano trio LP lies a web of reflections about the psychology of sound and auditory perception. But you don't have to dive this deep. The music, balancing at the cusp between the void and emergence, always speaks (and remains silent) for itself.
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// Electronic Music, Hip Hop //
Mark Guiliana:
On the second serving of BEAT MUSIC, Mark Guiliana's performance is akin to a drumming sword master, chopping the rhythm up, dicing and slicing it, poking black holes in it to access parallel galaxies of groove. It's like Kraftwerk in 4D, an explosion of energy and neon-lit melodies.
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Annie Leeth:
Determined to tell her story, Annie Leeth was afraid her music might make the world a darker place. Far from it: Filled with intricate vocals on top of industrial machinations and droning bass lines, her songs turn insecurities, doubt and confusion into something wondrous and uplifting.
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CHLOÉ:
Are CHLOÉ's new pieces really "repeating the obvious?" Her upcoming album is an epic journey into the hallucinatory, rhythmically flickering chiaroscuro of classic Sheffield-era IDM. And yet, what feels familiar is merely an invitation - to venture further, forever deeper into the unknown.
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// Sound Art, Experimental Music //
EXCISE DEPT:
The New Delhi- and Mumbai-based collective moved away from Hip-Hop for their new album in favour of a free-flowing, improvisation-based experimental symphony composed of folk, drones, noise and soundscapes. The dark, yet rich tapestry is a canvas for personal and political reflections.
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iiisa:
In the work of Isabel Crespo Pardo, the lines between the inner and outer world, so carefully constructed by convention and the rational mind, dissolve. The field recordings woven into her vulnerale songs are not documents - but wormholes for emotional travels to galaxies of mystery and beauty.
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Violeta Garcia:
"Almost fifteen years into working professionally, looking back, I still feel that collaborating is the most inspiring way for me to be an artist and a human being."
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// Rock, Indie, Folk //
Matthew Nichols aka L'eveil:
In the beginning, there is just one man and his guitar. Then, that image, too, fades and all that is left is an endless plane at dusk. Matthew Nichols builds refined, minimal and inward-bound symphonies that all lead you back to one point: a reckoning of your life and the decisions you've made.
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Plum:
The Chicago trio's sophomore album was driven by spontaneity, surprise and chance. Curiously, the process did not lead them away, but straight to the core of their music. This is the fundamental paradox of life: We first have to loose ourselves completely to really find out who we are.
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Nive Nielsen:
"Music, film, paintings, books, everything we call art, is often seen as a luxury or something that is not “necessity” for our survival. I don’t know who or what convinced people of that. The arts are a basic necessity - right behind food and water."
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// Classical, Neoclassical, and Contemporary Composition //
Charlotte Greve:
The New-York composer treated her new collection of works like a playground. Weaving shimmering, constantly shifting melodic lines around stable tonal axes and repeated cells, the music takes on a sweet, sensual, drifting quality. And yet, the softer the sound, the more powerful its effect.
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Alan Pierson:
Many people love “Music for 18 Musicians.“ Few love it as much as Alan Pierson. Even in its reduced version – slimmed down from his initial vision of a 24-hour performance – the conductor's massive 3-hour Reich zone is still the most radical and immersive you'll ever hear this classic.
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Ariel Quartet:
For a decade, the Ariels have integrally performed Beethoven's string quartets many times, never loosing their wonder for arguably the pinnacle of the repertoire. Their recording of the cycle captures the magic and energy of their concerts – while getting even deeper into the all-important details.
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