Nadia Struiwigh (Interview)
Dutch electronic musician Nadia Struiwigh released her new album IKIGAI about a month ago, a synth‑driven record that shifted direction after her father’s death to capture emotional honesty. The album was crafted using modular synths, a Push 3 controller and Ableton, blending ambient textures with 808‑heavy beats. Struiwigh also highlighted her 2023 LP Birds of Paradise, citing influences from Aphex Twin to Bauhaus x Audi. She announced a busy slate—including the upcoming STOOR project, a set at Stone Techno Festival, and expansion of her Distorted Waves label.
The Budos Band
The Budos Band, a nine‑member nonet from Staten Island, emerged from a 2004 Brooklyn recording session and draws heavily on Afro‑beat, funk, psychedelic rock, and later stoner metal. Their self‑titled debut in 2005 paid homage to Fela Kuti with vibrant brass,...
Deniz Cuylan
Deniz Cuylan, a Turkish‑American multi‑instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, blends psychedelic classical textures with post‑jazz and electro‑pop roots. He has scored multiple Netflix series and recently highlighted two solo instrumental releases: the 35‑minute "Rings of Juniper" (2022) and the 27‑minute...
Casiopea
The blog spotlights Casiopea, a pioneering Japanese jazz‑fusion quartet formed in Tokyo in 1976 by guitarist Issei Noro and bassist Tetsuo Sakurai, later joined by keyboardist Minoru Mukaiya and drummer Akira Jimbo. Their self‑titled debut (1979) and the same‑year release...
Mulatu Astatke
Mulatu Astatke, the Ethiopian multi‑instrumentalist who pioneered Ethio‑jazz, was the first African student at Berklee College of Music and later blended jazz with traditional Ethiopian folk. His early recordings from the late 1960s and early 1970s are compiled in Ethiopiques,...
Pop Ambient 2026 (Various Artists)
Kompakt released Pop Ambient 2026, the 26th edition of its long‑running ambient compilation series. Curated by co‑founder Wolfgang Voigt, the album features 18 tracks from 19 artists and runs just over 101 minutes. The collection debuted in December and is available across...
Kaytranada
Kaytranada, a Haitian‑Canadian producer raised in Montreal, began crafting beats in FL Studio in 2006, drawing on Madlib, J Dilla and A Tribe Called Quest. He coined the term “boogie music” to describe his hybrid of hip‑hop, electronic and R‑B sounds, earning...
Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker, the Kansas City‑born alto saxophonist who died at 34, pioneered bebop in the 1940s, reshaping jazz’s harmonic and rhythmic language. The blog spotlights two recent releases: the historic 1953 live concert “Jazz at Massey Hall,” featuring Parker with...
Across the Horizon Ep. 61: Marine Eyes
In Episode 61 of Across the Horizon, host Bob Holmes chats with Cynthia Bernard (Marine Eyes), a prolific ambient musician and curator championing women in the genre. They discuss Bernard’s collaborative project Almost an Island, her work curating the Across...
Ricardo Villalobos
The blog post spotlights Chilean‑German DJ Ricardo Villalobos, noting his exile from Pinochet‑era Chile to Germany and his rise as a minimal techno pioneer. It highlights his recent 25‑minute "Swamp" remix of Mohammad Reza Mortazavi’s piece and revisits his 2006...
Meg Bowles
The post spotlights Meg Bowles, an American ambient composer who transitioned from classical flute studies at Northwestern and Boston University to an MBA at Columbia and a stint on Wall Street before returning to music. Drawing on Jungian psychoanalysis, she...
Flow State Ep. 318: Film Scores
Episode 318 of Flow State is titled "Film Scores" and appears to focus on the role of music in movies. The host repeatedly thanks listeners, but the provided transcription contains little substantive dialogue or specific discussion points about film scoring....
France Jobin
France Jobin, a Montreal‑based Canadian sound artist, merges classical piano roots with electronic modular synthesis. Her work, described as “sound sculpture,” draws on quantum mechanics and string theory concepts. The 2017 ambient LP “Scènes” showcases four longform pieces built on...
Personal System 個人システム
Brazilian electronic musician Felipe Bortoloti, now based in Porto, has expanded his Personal System 個人システム project with three new releases: Distant Paradise (2025), Transcoastal Night Drive (2024) and Soundtrack for Laundry Dreams (2023). Each album fuses vaporwave, easy‑listening and hip‑hop...
Across the Horizon Ep. 60: Big Ears 2026
In this special Across the Horizon episode, host Bob Holmes spotlights the lineup for the festival’s Big Ears showcase, featuring conversations with key artists such as pedal‑steel pioneer Chuck Johnson, virtuoso guitarist Hayden Pettigrew, Nashville steel player Luke Schneider, and...
Cédric Elisabeth
Cédric Elisabeth, a French electronic musician based in Paris, released his latest album Le Chemin du Rêve at the end of February 2024. The seven‑track record continues his signature blend of cool synth pads and floating melodies, echoing the ambient‑house style...
STL
The blog post spotlights STL, the electronic music project of German producer Stephan Laubner, tracing his roots from video‑game‑inspired early listening to Frankfurt’s techno scene. It highlights two key releases: the 2014 album At Disconnected Moments, noted for its sanded‑smooth dub techno percussion,...
Shane Parish
Shane Parish, an American fingerstyle guitarist, has issued two new instrumental albums. "Autechre Guitar" features ten acoustic renditions of the IDM duo Autechre, derived from painstaking slow‑motion transcriptions. The follow‑up "Repertoire" pairs acoustic covers of jazz icons Alice Coltrane and Charles Mingus...
Christina Vantzou (Interview)
Christina Vantzou, the Greek‑American composer known for her work on Kranky, released the electroacoustic suite The Reintegration of the Ear, recorded at the historic GRM studio in Paris. The project features her tuning Éliane Radigue’s ARP 2500 to explore how sound interacts with...