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Atsushi Matsumoto built Études around an old upright piano he discovered in his family home and a rescued double bass. Working alone in Osaka, he restored the instruments, tracked, mixed, mastered, and even designed the cassette art himself. The record plays like a private notebook, a four-year return to sound after silence, written in short…
Sheila Rafferty writes electronic music with a very physical anchor point. Working with her husband Ian on congas and percussion, she builds tracks around feel and environment as much as around melody. “Soaring On” was recorded out on the North Yorkshire Moors, and you can hear that in the way it stretches out: no rush,…
Mr Briggs has stepped away from bands and volume into something much smaller and more private. Working alone in his Devon studio, sharing space with his painter wife and two chaotic dogs, he’s chasing the kind of music that feels like it was recorded late at night for no-one in particular. The touchstones he mentions,…
My Lovely Haunting is the project of Alex and Lucy, a Melbourne duo who treat songs like scenes. The name fits: everything they make seems built for dim rooms and late-night screens, with Lucy’s voice out front and Alex filling in the spaces with film-score detail. They call it “Bladerunner folk,” which sounds like a…
Soek is the outlet for composer Grant Borland when he steps away from briefs and trailer work and writes for himself. Under his own name he scores ads, films and TV, but with Soek he pares things down to piano, a few electronic touches, and live strings from players in Croatia, giving him a small…
Misteriseparli make electronic music that feels like it started with a film scene first and the chords second. The duo’s work has always leaned toward mood over genre rules, and Mondo Exotico pushes that even further, treating each of its six tracks like a short, self-contained story. “Big Tail” opens on seagulls and shoreline noise…
A.D.A.M. Music Project build songs the way some studios build game worlds. The collective, led by Adam DeGraide with long-time collaborator Dameon Aranda, writes rock tracks around characters and settings pulled from classic and modern video games. Different singers step in depending on the story. On “They Are Here,” that role belongs to Lacy Saunders,…
OLI is a London-based artist who grew up between New Jersey and the UK. Her music moves between pop and film-score territory, built from piano, strings, and quiet emotion. She’s performed at festivals like Isle of Wight, but this debut album is where her sound fully takes shape. The record opens with soft piano and…
Gianfranco Malorgio has spent decades moving between jazz, film, and classical guitar. Based in Rome, he’s played with figures from the Gypsy Jazz world like Dorado Schmitt and Angelo Debarre, and his background shows in the precision of his writing. Lately, Malorgio has turned toward composition for film, creating pieces meant to live between sound…
Christchurch-based composer and pianist Mark Sutton builds his music around tone, balance, and atmosphere. Odyssey opens with a soft piano figure that sets the scene in a quiet, open space. As strings rise around it, the sound widens and deepens. A low choir moves in slowly, adding weight and dimension without overpowering the piano. Sutton…