Category Archives: Experimental
Cherim ~ Ğymaq / VA ~ Shyshagh: Imaginary Circassian Underground
Built entirely from fragments from the Ored Recordings catalogue, Cherim’s Ğymaq reconfigures the label’s archival focus into something spectral and unstable by ways of heritage not preserved, but dissolved, stretched, and made to echo. Working with Circassian vocal traditions, shichepshin
Cherim ~ Ğymaq / VA ~ Shyshagh: Imaginary Circassian Underground
Built entirely from fragments from the Ored Recordings catalogue, Cherim’s Ğymaq reconfigures the label’s archival focus into something spectral and unstable by ways of heritage not preserved, but dissolved, stretched, and made to echo. Working with Circassian vocal traditions, shichepshin
Alarm Will Sound ~ Lift
Alarm Will Sound won their first Grammy Award this past February for Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance. They are also currently celebrating their 25th anniversary as a chamber orchestra, an occasion they’re ringing in with a series of
Alarm Will Sound ~ Lift
Alarm Will Sound won their first Grammy Award this past February for Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance. They are also currently celebrating their 25th anniversary as a chamber orchestra, an occasion they’re ringing in with a series of
RIHA ~ V
RIHA’s V is both a family portrait and a journey through the mythological landscape of Svaneti, the mountainous region of north-western Georgia that has long nourished Rati Oniani’s imagination. Conceived as the soundtrack to a forthcoming documentary about his grandfather,
RIHA ~ V
RIHA’s V is both a family portrait and a journey through the mythological landscape of Svaneti, the mountainous region of north-western Georgia that has long nourished Rati Oniani’s imagination. Conceived as the soundtrack to a forthcoming documentary about his grandfather,
Cinna Peyghamy ~ Music For Tombak & Synth
On Music For Tombak & Synth, Paris-based Iranian musician Cinna Peyghamy transforms a technical experiment into something deeply personal. What began as research into contact microphones and live improvisation gradually evolved into a meditation on exile, double identity, and inherited
Cinna Peyghamy ~ Music For Tombak & Synth
On Music For Tombak & Synth, Paris-based Iranian musician Cinna Peyghamy transforms a technical experiment into something deeply personal. What began as research into contact microphones and live improvisation gradually evolved into a meditation on exile, double identity, and inherited
Alessandro Brivio ~ 2:25
Grief comes in multiple shapes and forms. None of them are pleasing to the eye or the ear. On 2:25, Alessandro Brivio confronts loss as a system under stress, short-circuiting in real time. The cover image—a specular photograph of graffiti
Alessandro Brivio ~ 2:25
Grief comes in multiple shapes and forms. None of them are pleasing to the eye or the ear. On 2:25, Alessandro Brivio confronts loss as a system under stress, short-circuiting in real time. The cover image—a specular photograph of graffiti
Dressed in Sound ~ Sharper Than a Needle
Here’s something that has to be seen to be believed; fortunately, we have the video evidence. Those who are in Munich this Wednesday will also have the rare opportunity to experience Sharper Than a Needle in person at the album release
Dressed in Sound ~ Sharper Than a Needle
Here’s something that has to be seen to be believed; fortunately, we have the video evidence. Those who are in Munich this Wednesday will also have the rare opportunity to experience Sharper Than a Needle in person at the album release
Firas Shehadeh ~ Depth Map
Firas Shehadeh’s Depth Map transforms noise music into an act of forensic listening. Where 2025’s The Heaviest Shrouds Are The Smallest Ones unfolded like splinters of raw grief and collapse, Depth Map feels colder, more systematic: an attempt to trace
Firas Shehadeh ~ Depth Map
Firas Shehadeh’s Depth Map transforms noise music into an act of forensic listening. Where 2025’s The Heaviest Shrouds Are The Smallest Ones unfolded like splinters of raw grief and collapse, Depth Map feels colder, more systematic: an attempt to trace
Penelope Trappes ~ OPVS NOVUM: A Requiem Reworked
A Requiem is the gift that keeps on giving. First came the exquisite parent album, followed on Halloween by the companion piece Æternum, and now a reworked version that in many cases completely transforms the original versions, making OPVS NOVUM: A
Penelope Trappes ~ OPVS NOVUM: A Requiem Reworked
A Requiem is the gift that keeps on giving. First came the exquisite parent album, followed on Halloween by the companion piece Æternum, and now a reworked version that in many cases completely transforms the original versions, making OPVS NOVUM: A
a closer listen 