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ko.valainen’s life is an experimental electronic album with a severe concept: human emotion translated into machine language. The Brooklyn artist frames the record as a passage through different states of life, using coded chess movements as titles. Birth, childhood, desire, isolation, fragmentation, decay, and death become sound systems, each one unstable in its own way….
Kirk Monteux’s Total Tranquility is relaxation music with a direct function. The German composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist behind Mysoftmusic has worked in television, film, and advertising, then built a catalogue used in relaxation apps, wellness programs, spa treatments, and yoga classes. This album follows that path through eleven instrumental pieces made for stress relief, meditation,…