Lucy Liyou - Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name (Orange Milk Records)
"Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name is an album I wanted to make since college. I began most of these songs when I was 19 in my dorm room, but I struggled to finish them. I didn’t feel skilled enough as a songwriter and a producer. Finishing this music now, almost 6-7 years later, has been interesting. It is nice to know that there are ideas here that I can still stand by. But the differences in my emotional state, then and now, made this process more difficult than I expected. " Lucy Liyou
Nicole McCabe - A Song To Sing (Colorfields Records)
In search of fresh melodic pathways, McCabe built most of this warped electronic jazz around on-the-spot explorations on synthesizer, piano, percussion, and clarinet. Her improvisations in producer Pete Min’s Los Angeles studio, Lucy’s Meat Market, became raw material for processing, looping, and layering grooves, often before McCabe ever touched her alto. For the talented young composer, it was an experiment in process, an "extension of myself into a different world."
Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian - Noor-e Vojood (Radio Khiyaban)
Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian was born on the first of January, 2002 in Kermanshah, a city in western Iran. Kermanshah is the home of the tanbur, a pear-shaped lute whose origins can be traced in the region for more than 5000 years. The Yarsans, a millennium sect of Kurdish people, have long made this region of the country their home. Their mystic rituals (jâm) are performed with tanbur, and the sacred music they play is a heritage that is steeped in one thousand years of tradition.
Paco Rossique - Diálogo del hombre doble (Republica Iberica Ruidista)
Paco Rossique lives and works in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). He has lived and studied in Madrid and Florence (Italy). With a career spanning over twenty years as an artist, his work include paintings, murals, sound art pieces, sculptures, prints, magazine articles, art-books, illustrations for newspapers and curatorship.
Puce Moment - Sans Soleil (Parenthèses Records)
Sans Soleil is an immersive musical piece that brings the ancient traditional Japanese music of Gagaku into dialogue with electro-acoustic and electronic music within a liminal soundscape—a meeting and transitional space orchestrated by Puce Moment. Imperial and centuries-old, Gagaku encompasses the repertoire of court music and dances of Chinese and Korean origin, preserved in Japan and transmitted unchanged from generation to generation since the 5th century. In February 2020, Nicolas Devos and Pénélope Michel traveled to Tenri, a suburb of Nara, Japan’s former capital, to meet and record the musicians of the Gagaku Music Society of Tenri. These recordings formed the foundation for the musical and stage creation of 'Sans Soleil', developed in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Vania Vanneau.
