Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou - Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems (RVNG Intl)
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Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems, Félicia Atkinson and Christina Vantzou channel their friendship and atmospheric artistry into ceremonial focus. Spoken-word environments and orchestral imagination flow like tributaries into a unified stream, resulting in a collection of dreamlike songs and soundscapes anchored in sea, sky and stone. Through electro-acoustic instrumentation, voice, and environmental sound,
Water Poems invites listeners into a subconscious space somewhere between everyday intimacy and the oceanic enigma from which all life unfolds.
Fr. Dionysios Tabakis - Paradise Metal (Heat Crimes)
Fr. Dionysios Tabakis is a priest of the Orthodox Church. He serves at the Church of Panagitsa in Nafplio, the Nativity of the Theotokos, and records alone, at home. The music made in that house does not announce itself. It arrives from somewhere older than genre, older than the distinctions we use to organize sound. Tabakis is a musician of the Eastern Mediterranean in the fullest sense: formed in Byzantine theory and practice, fluent on qanun, oud, cümbüş, ney, zurna, Politiki and Pontic lyra, kabak kemane, yali tanbur. The system he works within is Byzantine, not as aesthetic choice or cultural reference, but as logic. The scales, the intervals, the way a note moves toward or away from another: this is the operating system. What emerges is slow, heavy, meditative, drone that carries the mass of stone walls and sustained prayer. It is still Byzantine music.
How to See Know and Fall - Ecologies (Adhyâropa Records)
How to See Know and Fall is an immersive collaboration between interdisciplinary percussionist/composer Brian Shankar Adler and electronic composer/software designer Jesse Stiles, combining intricate hybrid percussion with shimmering synth lines and ambient textures. Live performances transform the stage into a dreamlike audiovisual environment where polyrhythms collide with real-time generative video, weaving data and machine learning processes into a visceral tapestry of sound and light. By bridging far-reaching rhythmic traditions and cutting-edge electronics, How to See Know and Fall offers audiences a revelatory experience at the cross-hairs of music, technology, and digital art.
Lei Liang - Six Seasons: Instrumentation Lab (New Focus Recordings)
Lei Liang crafts multi-disciplinary works that bridge scientific research, electroacoustic composition, and contemporary improvisation to create a cohesive message of holistic symbiosis. Partnering with musicians from Ensemble Dal Niente, Mivos Quartet, loadbang, [nec]shivaree, and pianist Stephen Drury, Lei Liang’s newest release is an ambitious snapshot of his current aesthetic direction.
