Luciana Bass - Desatornillándonos (Relative Pitch Records)
Luciana Bass is a guitarist who graduated in sound arts & design at the University of the Arts London. She is interested in sound exploration and experimentation and her preferred choice is, normally, the electric guitar.
Merchants - Marrow (ArteTetra)
Merchants is an Italian electronic duo composed of Alberto Ricca aka Bienoise (Mille Plateaux, Red Bull Music Academy Tokyo alumnus) and Davide Amici. The duo was born in 2016 with the intention of conjuring the musical sensibilities and imaginations of non-existent countries through a sample-based approach dedicated to the allure for post-global debris.
Merope - Vėjula (Stroom)
Merope's most experimental full length to date, Vėjula is a celebration of collaboration and playfulness, and features appearances from Shahzad Ismaily, Laraaji and Bill Frisell. Like its predecessors, the duo's fifth album still roots itself in Lithuanian folk forms, but sprouts out spiritedly from that point into unfamiliar landscapes, muddling ancient themes with contemporary philosophies, concepts and technology.
Michaela Turcerová - Alene et (mappa)
On
alene et, Michaela Turcerová, a Copenhagen-based, Slovakia born musician, takes minutiae — the tiniest scrapes and breathiest hums — and distorts them into sprawling, collaged webs that barely resemble the instrument in its natural state. Each shard, when pieced together, makes a rhythmic, undulating sound born from the subtlest motions.
Mike Cooper - Slow Motion Lightning (Room40)
"I made the first set of pieces for this collection during the intense heat of the 2023 Spanish summer; 32 degrees inside the house at night sometimes. I had just finished reading one of the most extraordinary volumes of fiction (something I rarely read) titled The Guyana Quartet by the Caribbean writer Wilson Harris. I came to this book via the works of Nathaniel Mackay, who recommended Wilson Harris as an important influence on his own creative writing." Mike Cooper
Mike Majkowski - November
Double bassist & music-maker, Mike Majkowski, has played in groups led by Oren Ambarchi, Hailu Mergia, is a member of the trio Lotto, has collaborated with the likes of Jules Reidy & members of The Necks. His solo music ranges from purely acoustic to electro-acoustic to electronic.
