Hidden Hour
On Hidden Hour, marine eyes preserves eighteen moments of dawn, dusk and chosen solitude in a full hour of luminous ambient drift. Cynthia Bernard’s guitars, lap steel, soft synths and field recordings turn nearby forests, coastlines and mountains into slow-moving emotional maps - music for stepping outside routine and hearing time soften.
Cacciamali
Cacciamali is an exploration of diegetic sound, folk chants and traditional rhythms and instrumentation building upon Milan based Rosso Polare’s last outing Campo Amaro and the subsequent departure of co-founder Anna Vezzosi from the group. Where the 2024 album incorporated a heavy use of folklore as a new tool, Cacciamali explores the influence further by bringing in a host of collaborative players including Italian avant-garde veteran Riccardo Sinigaglia, sound artist and researcher HMOT (Stas…
AT/DC
"I first knew of Darren through his earlier band Gerling, who were an inspiration to me at a time when I was absorbing new sounds, genre experimentation and discovering the broader world at large. In recent years we’ve come to know each other and become friends, as our musical paths have in many ways aligned. Darren’s D.C Cross solo/‘ecstatic' guitar project is responsible for some of the finest current wave of that form of music going around and it’s been a pleasure hearing the project develop …
Después De Llover
On Después De Llover, Eli Wewentxu and Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė turn a first encounter into a shared dreamscape, letting kanklės, txompe and violin wander in post‑rain light where plants, pudus and herons quietly rewrite the rules of folk dialogue.
Everything You Giveaway
On Everything You Giveaway, Pablo’s Eye turn Richard Skinner’s seaside vignette into a drifting meditation on loss and camouflage, where a missing jade earring becomes a quiet parable about hiding what hurts in the very element that once held it.
That Porous Line
On That Porous Line, Push For Night dwell in the blur between song and atmosphere, trading in smudged hooks, low-lit textures and slow, pulsing tension where guitars, electronics and voice seep into one another instead of standing apart.
Country / The Country
On Country / The Country, J.WLSN and Liam Keenan pare things back to the bone, using repetition, space and grain to sketch a faint, flickering idea of “country” where landscape, memory and rusted‑out song forms quietly bleed into one another.
Headwater
On Headwater, Helen Svoboda traces an intimate, slow‑moving current through bass, voice and carefully placed sound, letting murmured melodies, extended techniques and silence pool into an ecosystem where every ripple feels both fragile and tidal.
Quiet Panic
*Edition of 100* On Quiet Panic, Mark Schaub sculpts a slow‑burn tension where stillness never quite settles, his compositions hovering between ambience and unease, finely honed and given extra dimensional depth by Andrea Marutti’s mastering.
Malarial Dream
On Malarial Dream, Alvarius B. drifts out of Cairo with a fevered, mostly instrumental songbook that bends late‑period Sun City Girls melancholy through Middle Eastern modes, psych‑warped folk and the quiet volatility of a hand‑picked Cairo/avant‑jazz ensemble.
Reverse Acceleration of Dragons
On Reverse Acceleration of Dragons, Radx (X.Y.R. & Vlad Dobrovolski) drift through retro‑synth mirages and sci‑fi haze, blending Cascone‑esque electronica and “living machine” dragons into a soft‑focus, humid strand of 12th Isle ambient.
Through Global Frequency
At the beginning of this journey, I had no clear idea of what I was getting into. What started as a simple poem, with embedded audio links referencing a selection of recordings I had made over the past few years and published on Metalabel and my website, eventually evolved into a video project designed as a proposal for an installation. Ultimately, it culminated in this music album.
I am incredibly grateful for the amazing voice recordings that friends and family from all over the world sent me,…
Meditations
Meditations is a set of 8 works based on the experience of meditation practice. Music made for both meditation and reflecting the realities of a life of daily practice. The breath, the quietness, the listening, the distracted dissonant and consonant thoughts that pass through. The texts throughout the pieces are fragments of the Buddhist Heart Sutra, the shortest and created from a mixture of traditions and sources, produced long after Buddha's death and meant to be chanted or sung as a ritual a…
Clear and Stormy Horizons
Eden Lonsdale’s Clear and Stormy Horizons is a contemporary chamber mini-album released in 2025, featuring five compositions that drift between melancholy, tension, and delicate lyricism. Written and recorded during lockdown, these works showcase Lonsdale’s evocative use of varied instrumentation and emotional clarity, marking another intriguing chapter in UK-based new music.
Suns of the Heart
Suns of the Heart, the sixth solo album from Colin Fisher, unfurls a suite of intricate, emotionally charged improvisations that blend treated guitar, elemental electronics, and gestural samples. Across six movements, Fisher crafts an enveloping soundworld where each texture pulses with meditative warmth and restless sonic curiosity.
For a Moment the Sky Knew My Name
With For a Moment the Sky Knew My Name, Peter Knight extends his fascination with the porous relationship between body, instrument, and environment into one of his most personal and immersive solo works. Due for release in November 2025 on Room40, the album takes its cue from extended fieldwork and improvisations undertaken near Yeerung River on Krowathunkooloong land, where Knight spent much of his early life. Each of the album’s pieces grew organically from direct encounters with that setting—…
Samt ar-ra's
Samt ar-ra's by Benjamin Dobó and Dion Monti is an evocative ambient collaboration that serves as a sonic companion to Dobó's film. Crafted between 2020 and 2022, the album moves through delicate textures, atmospheric field recordings, and subtle melodic fragments, inviting listeners to explore intricate emotional landscapes in a work that bridges visual and auditory art.
Dinsterwenk
* Edition of 200 * Baljuw is the improvisation project of Matthias Dewilde (Nagløed, Matterhorn Well) and Nicolas Van Belle (Suura, Ever Present, Sarcastic Fringehead). Although the two musicians were longtime friends, it still took until 2023 for the two to begin “playing” together, stimulated by a shared interest in sound, texture and transformation. A series of improvisation sessions and some tasteful performances (including at the Ghent Citadelic festival) followed, which only stimulated the…
Polar Sequences
In October 1995, as part of the annual Polar Music Festival, Geir Jenssen of Biosphere and Bobby Bird of The Higher Intelligence Agency, were commissioned by Nor Concerts to collaborate together on a musical project to take place in Geir's home town of Tromsø, Norway. The brief was for them to perform three concerts, using sounds sourced from the area as the basis of the music - the machinery of the local mountain cable lift, the snow, the ice. The performances from which this recording is taken…