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Roxy Rawson’s “South Sudan” comes from an artist with a substantial history in orchestral and alternative folk music. Now based in Berlin, Rawson studied violin and piano at a Paris Conservatoire before gaining recognition in London’s alternative folk scene. Her career has included a Sony development deal, performances at Ronnie Scott’s, Royal Albert Hall, Union…
Leyla Romanova’s “9/8” is a cinematic instrumental with a clear sense of motion. The Azerbaijani composer works across orchestral, chamber, piano, electronic, jazz, soul, techno, and pop-rock language, with roots in classical training at the Bulbul Music School in Baku. Her music has been performed at international festivals, and her wider catalogue has earned international…
Francesco Trento’s In Omeostasi is a home-recorded debut EP shaped by piano, feeling, and processed detail. The Italian composer from Bassano del Grappa recorded the project entirely at home on his historic Yamaha U3, using simple equipment and a personal idea he reduces to one word: heart. The music follows that idea closely. It sounds…
Philamelian’s 3 Pieces From An Old Statue returns to a two-bar motif first written for the sci-fi short Adarnia. In “An Old Statue Reimagined,” that source becomes a full piece shaped by piano, voice, strings, and trumpet. The piano sits at the center, while Özge Ürer’s wordless vocal color moves through the arrangement with a…
Mary Knoblock’s Peach opens with “Mustang Clover,” and the album immediately feels close, damp, and emotional. The piano has a soft touch but a sharp taste in the notes. Her vocal enters almost right away, wet and atmospheric, pulling the song into a cinematic place before the strings arrive. When they do, they follow the…
karkinoma’s façades has the nervous energy of a record made after the polite version of life stopped working. Dimitri Turlotte made it alone in a home studio, writing, recording, producing, mixing, and mastering the album himself, and that solitude gives the music a strange pressure. Nothing here sounds social. Even the brighter songs seem to…
Michael J McEvoy composed and performed the score for White Gold, a short film by Luke Bradford. The film was built out of Bradford’s time documenting people living with albinism, and the story is framed around injustice, endurance, and faith. The soundtrack is released through Rezzonator Music as a standalone listen, not just a film…
Two-time Grammy–winning composer Carla Patullo is in the rare position of watching the same record open up twice. Last year Nomadica introduced itself as a dense, grief-struck collage for strings, choir, and voice, written in memory of her mother. Shortly after it picked up the Grammy for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album, she…
Sometimes Julie have spent five records working as a full band, folding classic and alternative rock into a tight live setup. On Transition, singer-songwriter duo Monica Sorenson and Rick Walker zoom in on the most direct parts of that project: piano, voice, and a small circle of players from their San Diego orbit. It’s their…
David Kovacs writes from that place he describes in his own notes: stuck between a busy inner world and a loud outside one, trying to leave “realism” without losing the plot completely. The album pulls ideas from minimalist classical music, electroacoustic pieces, and modern opera, but it feels closer to a single long mood study:…