Khôra & Mas Aya - Primordial Mind (Marionette)
Primordial Mind forms the mysteries and intensity of inner life into eight mandalic instrumentals where Mas Aya and Khôra, artists who share 15 years of music making, orchestrate an inspired, prismatic palette of percussive and melodic sources. Each composition presented stages a vigorous meshwork of colours and textures, contrasting riveting polyrhythms with towering arrangements for flutes, synths, and processed acoustic instruments. Tendencies which the artists trace in their solo practices are amplified, blended, and refracted sublimely in unison, serving as energetic portals to collective awareness.
Manja Ristić - Lights shimmered like whispers in the depths of the trees (Sawyer Spaces)
Lights shimmered like whispers in the depths of the trees is the title of an experimental electroacoustic album by the acclaimed Serbian sound artist, violinist, and poet Manja Ristić, released through the boutique avant-garde label Sawyer Spaces. The title itself originates from a poignant poem Ristić wrote to honor her grandmother, Negosava Ristić (née Stefanović), and the youth of post-WWII Yugoslavia who quite literally rebuilt their country from the ashes with their bare hands.
Meridian Brothers & Mexican Institute of Sound - Ruido Tovar (Ansonia Records)
Mexican Institute of Sound (MIS) and Meridian Brothers join forces on
Ruido Tovar, a cross-border collaboration that reimagines the tropical traditions linking Mexico and Colombia. Drawing inspiration from icons like Rigo Tovar and the psychedelic Mexican cumbia era, the project blends danzón, son, cha-cha-cha, and experimental electronics into a vibrant new language. MIS’s genre-bending electronic tropicalism meets Meridian Brothers’ avant-garde eccentricity, resulting in a sound that is both reverent and playfully distorted. Together, Camilo Lara and Eblis Álvarez pay tribute to decades of musical exchange while pushing tropical music into unexpected territory.
Osiana - Vol.1 (self - released)
Osiana is a "three-headed psychedelic heavy rock entity in the style of the ancients. We worship the legacies of Mizutani, Nanjo and Narita as well as the paths of Ash Ra, German Oak and Trad, Gras och Stenar. It's not about innovating, it's about locking into a high energy zone thru the spirit of Rock." With Ernie G (guitars/vocals) aka Bear Bones Lay Low, Nils Vomit (bass/vocals) and Seb from the Hood (drums). The first volume comprises four heavy psychedelic demo tracks.
Parasite Jazz - ♫ ⎜II (Disques de la Spirale)
After its first release in 2023, the tiny big band Parasite Jazz brings its public iterations to fruition with “♫”, a testament to an alternate reality, matured voyaging across France over the span of four seasons. It sees the music flee through exuberant forests and steep troglodytes; a parallel genre movie with a soundtrack of diluvian rhythms, mocking chants, jazz noir and voodoo accidents. In this shifting, autonomous world, the elastic orchestra—whose members keep on appearing and disappearing—plays for nocturnal secrets and feverish cavalcades. For this album, the band comprises of Tamara Goukassova (violin, synth, ocarina, voice, objects), Alexandre Larcier (samples, tapes, live dubbing), Théo Delaunay (drums, percussions, bass), Nadia Mars Goodwater (voice and original bass idea on ケタケタ, trumpet on Piano Cat & Choir Culture), Radio Hito (voice on Bongopoly - words are from Octavio Paz - “Piedra del Sol”) and Kyle Knapp (saxophone on Mascarade).
