Christina Vantzou ~ The Reintegration of the Ear
Christina Vantzou has released the ambient album “The Reintegration of the Ear,” accompanied by limited‑edition stainless‑steel votive ears crafted in Greece. The work features an ensemble of voice, flutes, synthesizers, double bass and cello, emphasizing slow, embodied listening to micro‑sound textures. Side B, originally issued on Longform Editions in 2023, blends ambient tones with everyday sounds like cutlery and birds. The project positions listening as an active, almost ritualistic practice rather than passive background music.
FH HF – Rewind / Hey, Can I Pick Your Ears?
Georgian experimental artist FH HF releases *Rewind*, a "blindly intuitive collage" that shuns traditional album structure in favor of fragmented, momentum‑driven soundscapes. The record explores memory as a fluid process, pairing glitch‑laden textures with playful humor and personal narratives, such...
Charbel Haber ~ May a Soft Sun Bless Your Sky While You Wait for the Inevitable
Charbel Haber’s new ambient album *May a soft sun bless your sky while you wait for the inevitable* was recorded in Paris, mixed in Beirut with Fadi Tabbal, and mastered in Montreal by Harris Newman. The record unfolds as a...
Taroug ~ Chott
Taroug’s new album *Chott* draws on his Tunisian heritage, translating the salt‑lake landscape into immersive soundscapes. The record blends organic field recordings, family voice memos, and analog synths to explore memory, loss and identity. Tracks such as “Wehmut,” “Saraab,” and...
City of the Sun ~ Under the Moon
City of the Sun, a Brooklyn‑based quartet, released their sophomore album *Under the Moon*, a largely instrumental record that fuses desert‑southwest ambience with California‑coast rock. The album’s cinematic tracks—ranging from spaghetti‑western tones in “Un Disparo al Corazón” to the hook‑laden...
Natalia Tsupryk ~ Vil’na
Ukrainian composer Natalia Tsupryk releases her first full-length album, *Vil’na*, a deeply personal collection reflecting the war’s impact on her homeland. The record revisits earlier EP material, adds a reimagined traditional wedding song, and introduces two new pieces, “Anti‑Drone Nets”...
Old Amica ~ Bländverk
Old Amica’s new ambient album Bländverk delivers a quiet, intimate soundscape built around piano, harmonium, tape loops and field recordings. The Swedish title, meaning “bland work,” cleverly contrasts with its English translation “illusion,” underscoring the album’s subtle trickery. Tracks like...
Monoconda ~ Shadow Shades
Monoconda’s new EP Shadow Shades strips back his recent synth‑heavy layers, returning to a raw, overdriven guitar sound that balances acoustic intimacy with electronic abstraction. The six‑track record is framed as a dialogue with the music, letting “magical accidents” shape...
Canes Of Karabakh ~ S/T
Polish trio Stanisław Matys, Olgierd Dokalski and Paweł Bartnik released *Canes of Karabakh*, centering the Armenian duduk amid the fallout from the Nagorno‑Karabakh conflict. The album weaves the doubling of cane‑reed prices into its sonic fabric, turning material scarcity into...
The Doomed Bird of Providence ~ Meteoric Heralds of Danger
The Doomed Bird of Providence releases “Meteoric Heralds of Danger,” their first album in nine years, expanding from vocal‑driven post‑rock to a fully orchestral sound. Inspired by Marcus Clarke’s 1874 novel “For the Term of His Natural Life,” the record...
Cole Pulice ~ Land’s End Eternal
Cole Pulice’s new album *Land’s End Eternal* expands the artist’s signature saxophone‑centric, pedal‑driven soundscape by incorporating electric guitar for the first time. Recorded in the Bay Area after relocating from Minneapolis and released on LEAVING Records, the record blends live...
Yoichi Kamimura ~ Waterforest
Yoichi Kamimura releases *Waterforest*, a double‑LP that expands his 2025 field‑recording album *ryūhyō*. The record weaves together water sounds from Swiss springs, the Amazon rainforest, Icelandic glaciers, and Kyoto’s canals, offering both raw recordings and layered sonic collages. Liner notes...
~Nois ~ What Is ~Nois
American experimental saxophone quartet ~Nois releases its second album, *What Is ~Nois*, expanding on the genre‑bending concepts of *Kinds of ~Nois*. The record features four composers who weave saxophones, keyboards, bass, drums and vocals into tracks that shift from chamber‑like...
Hollie Kenniff ~ For Those Who Stay
Hollie Kenniff’s new album *For Those Who Stay* arrived in early spring after a meticulously timed rollout of eleven singles spanning December through March. The tracks have been reordered to tell a continuous story of emergence from winter, blending personal...
Mikael Lind ~ Norðaustur
Icelandic artist Sigga Björg and composer Mikael Lind transformed a fish‑oil‑tank installation in Raufarhöfn into the album Norðaustur. The original visual‑sound piece projected moving chalk‑style animation onto tank walls, while synthesizers reacted to the imagery. Lind later expanded the material in...