The Monthly Dig - June 2026

The Monthly Dig - June 2026

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Dragoș Rusu

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Your monthly music companion is here to soundtrack this hot summer, bringing a carefully curated selection of albums and compilations released in June 2026. From ambient to experimental, jazz, electronics, psychedelic rock and beyond; expect both new releases and essential reissues to help you beat the heat.

What's new, what's good, what's hot or not, what's obscure or under the radar, music wise, here's the Monthly Dig. If you think that we've missed something or want to send a tip, please get in touch.

From Assa'd Khoury to Félicia Atkinson

V.A. - Flowers Not Bombs (Beacon Sound)
V.A. - Flowers Not Bombs (Beacon Sound)
Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun (Black Knoll Editions)
In spring 2025, Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri developed the source material for their second album, Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun, during a three-day residency at Morphine Raum in Berlin. The space has no stage, placing musicians and listeners on the same level. Working within an open framework, the duo reshaped the music each evening while recording the performances live to multitrack. Rotary speakers, modular synthesizers and bowed guitar formed the core of their sonic language, routed through a 1970s mixing console. Back in Mogard’s studio in Rome, these recordings were reworked, passages stretched, fragments isolated, tempos dissolved and forms reassembled. Irisarri expanded layers of textured drones, while contributions from Martina Bertoni and Andrea Burelli gave breath and resonance, softening the boundary between acoustic gesture and electronic mass. The sessions were developed further through layering, subtraction, and shifts in temporal scale.

Assa'd Khoury - Electronic Touches Belly Dance (We Want Sounds)
Assa’d Khoury’s 1978 rarity Electronic Touches Belly Dance is reissued for the first time in nearly 50 years, in partnership with Byblos Records founder Mozart Chahine. The album features Oriental classics reimagined through Khoury’s pioneering funky, electronic keyboards together with the monster breakbeat of cult track "Al Ghaba."



Eli Wewentxu & Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė - Después de llover (Stroom)
Después de llover is about musical conversations between two people who have only recently met; they come from very different places, do not speak the same languages, and perhaps have little in common other than the resonance of their instruments.

F/i - Invisible Men (Birdman Records)
Invisible Men is the early space exploration of electronic music pioneer F/i. In the mid-80s F/i was on the cutting edge of electronic bombast, producing cassette tapes of late-night interstellar sessions to be traded world over with the handful of heads that were plugged into similar perambulations. As a link between Throbbing Gristle and the Spacemen 3, this period of F/i has been woefully forgotten, until now. Later in the 80s, F/i would morph into Vocokesh continuing their space rock explorations.

Félicia Atkinson - Sans Visage (Viernulvier Records)
Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face) is a 1960 horror film by Georges Franju. This recorded version of the soundtrack is a 34-minute synthesis of the full 90-minute score, presented on LP along with an essay by writer-musician Claire Cronin and drawings by Momo Gordon.

V.A. - Flowers Not Bombs (Beacon Sound)
Flowers Not Bombs is the second in a series of grassroots benefit compilations supporting Palestinian-led mutual aid groups on the ground in Gaza. Organized between Palestinians in the diaspora and Palestinians fighting to remain on their land in Gaza, these projects support daily survival, education, access to food, and community self-determination in the face of genocide and ongoing colonization.
Los Orientales de Paramonga 1972-1976 (Analog Africa)
Los Orientales de Paramonga 1972-1976 (Analog Africa)

From Lagoss to Safia Tachtoukt

Gūsū - Inhabiting Me (Subject to Restrictions Discs)
Gūsū returns with a second release, Inhabiting Me. What began as a shared approach, sprouted from intuition, has grown denser and more defined, holding on to that same fragility and openness. The duo continues to befriend with contrast, friction and proximity, shaping a language that inhabits their uncommon ground.



Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders - Liquid Donnon (Riot Season Records)
Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders are a household name for evolving their own musical space that overlays dusty folk, cosmic jazz, deep psych, free improv, and even (gasp!) indie rock, building an audience that ranges from open-eared curiosity seekers to deep committed music weirdos that’s also yielded the Heavy Lidders an infamous sub-cult of concert tapers that you’re already sick of hearing about. But in this consensus reality (and probably the other one, too), Liquid Donnon catches the Lidders at their heaviest, “heavy” in the Lidderverse being far from a monolithic musical idea.

Lagoss - Música para Plátanos (Discrepant)
Música para Plátanos takes its name — and much of its inspiration — from the group’s recording studio, situated in the heart of a banana plantation on the humid north shore of Tenerife, Canary Islands. The ever-present sight of the green, sun-drenched fields surrounding their weekly sessions seeped directly into the music: improvised jams that are playful, layered, and deeply connected to place.

Los Orientales de Paramonga 1972-1976 (Analog Africa)
In the late 1960s, the coastal city of Paramonga, just a three-hour drive north of Lima, gave rise to a vibrant music scene shaped by surf, rockabilly, and tropical sounds. Among its protagonists were two musicians, Víctor Ramírez and Maximiliano Chávez, who, with their psychedelic guitars, Fender amplifiers, and wah-wah pedals, would define not only their own sound but also shape the musical identity of the region. Under the mentorship of their manager, Néstor “Romanito” Robles, the two guitarists added a few remarkable percussionists to the lineup and formed Los Orientales.

Safia Tachtoukt - Safia Tachtoukt (Hive Mind Records)
This month’s limited release from the Hive Mind Cassette Archive is a fantastic tape by Soussi Amazigh singer, Safia Tachtoukt. It’s got a great, rough Tagroupit sound, with the distinctive mix of banjo and guitar that you might recognise from more famous Agadir based groups such as Inrzaf or Oudaden.
Turmeric Acid & Diurnal Burdens - Straight Into Extravaganza (Beach Buddies Records)
Turmeric Acid & Diurnal Burdens - Straight Into Extravaganza (Beach Buddies Records)

From Seabuckthorn to Tomoyuki Trio

Sandy Chamoun - Sawt El Doumouh (Ruptured Records)
On her second album, Sawt El Doumouh (The Sound of Tears), Beirut-based Sandy Chamoun summons flickers of light from sadness. Influences from the Arabic tradition of Tarab – one of the first styles Chamoun learnt to sing – and polyphonic Cantu are reinterpreted and reimagined through her voice and electronics, synths from her SANAM and Ghadr bandmate Anthony Sahyoun, and live percussion from Ali Hout.



Seabuckthorn - Never the Same River (Lost Tribe Sound)
Never the Same River is Seabuckthorn's most rhythmic effort to date. Many of the songs began by assembling percussive objects—hand percussion, kitchen pans and capturing simple DIY beats. Cartwright then reshaped the recordings using software, where chance helped to deepen the material. Rhythms were stretched, fragmented and reassembled, allowing unexpected textures and patterns to surface.

Stefano Massari - Signal
Signal is the debut album by Stefano Massari, comprising six electronic/experimental tunes "from the damaged underside of sound. Pressure low signals residual machines survival after the air has broken."

Tomoyuki Trio - High Oxygen Blood (Feeding Tube Records)
"Guitarist Aoki Tomoyuki, who founded and led Up-Tight from 1992 to 2024, is one of the prime exponents of Japanese string-based underground insanity. The way the Tomoyuki Trio balance the overload of their sound is definitely in the tradition of Japanese underground guitar noise of the past 35 years, but the Tomoyuki Trio seems bent on destroying the boundaries that have usually separated their precursors into distinct categories. They demand all access to all styles at all times. And the success of their attack on extant generic norms is abundantly clear throughout this album." Byron Coley

Turmeric Acid & Diurnal Burdens - Straight Into Extravaganza (Beach Buddies Records)
On this new release out on the Romanian imprint Beach Buddies, Turmeric Acid and Diurnal Burdens bring altogether "swampy marshes, corporate lingo, the death of a robot and the final breath of a radio-wave caught in a whirlwind, this has it all."
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Dragoș Rusu

Co-founder and co-editor in chief of The Attic, sound researcher, DJ, and allround music adventurer, with a keen interest in the anthropology of sound.

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