Ami Dang | Parted Plains
Ami Dang fuses sitar, voice, and electronics to create east-meets-west, ambient/trance music. On the all-instrumental album Parted Plains, she draws inspiration from South Asian and Middle Eastern folktales, specifically, the four tragic romances of Punjab, Sohni Mahiwal, Sassi Punnun, Heer Ranjha, and Mirza Sahiba; Flora Annie Steel’s Tales of the Punjab: Folklore of India, and […]
Shafiq Husayn |- The Loop
The Loop’ is the new LP by Los Angeles based polymath Shafiq Husayn, an epic project which saw its inception in 2012 through a series of studio sessions at Shafiq’s home, including collaborations with the likes of Thundercat, Erykah Badu, Flying Lotus, Bilal and Anderson Paak. Amongst a close knit circle of friends and family […]
Black Taffy | Elder Mantis
Black Taffy (Donovan Jones) is a Dallas-based composer and performer whose current focus lies in pairing ambient music with big bass and percussion. The first born son of Pentecostal music ministers, Donovan grew up witnessing the power music has to induce trance and encourage spiritual awakening. Eventually drawing parallels between christianity, voodoo, […]
Bastien Keb | 22.02.85
22.02.85′ is the new album from Bastien Keb. Initially conceived as a concept album about a stripper lost in the city (like a straight-to-video follow up to Showgirls), ‘22.02.85’ has a distinctly nocturnal edge to it. The city at night, lost in a crowd, abandoned petrol stations, empty kebab shops, broken florescent lights. Like a […]
Kid Koala | Music To Draw To: Satellite
Kid Koala’s “Music To Draw To: Satellite” is an uncharted musical journey for the legendary scratch DJ, producer, and composer. Kid Koala’s fifth studio album is an expansive work of ambient electronic soundscapes and chilling ballads sung by Icelandic artist Emiliana Torrini. Created during the gelid Montreal winter, its eighteen movements tell a tale of discovery […]
Bardo Land | Bardo Land E.P.
London based duo Bardo Land dropped their new EP, which is the first release on the Jon Kennedy Federation record label. It’s a spiritual journey navigating through different genres. “Their music is an invite for the mind to transcend its state opening to the travel through the various realms of the soul.” Out on Jon Kennedy Records – […]
Hidden Orchestra | Wingbeats
Hidden Orchestra is the solo studio project of multi-instrumentalist composer/producer Joe Acheson. The album features drummer Tim Lane and Jamie Graham, pianist/violinist Poppy Ackroyd and long-time collaborators including harpist Mary Macmaster, cellist/saw player Su-a Lee and Czech bass clarinettist Jiri Javurek. Although written for sampling, the pieces included on the “Wingbeats” EP stand on their own […]
the gaslamp killer | instrumentalepathy
With many new roads traveled over the last few years, The Gaslamp Killer is back with the full-length LP “Instrumentalepathy”. The new LP features Gonjasufi, Miguel Atwood Ferguson, Niki Randa, Kid Moxie, Mophono, Amir Yaghmai and The Heliocentrics. As many know, GLK used the triumphs of battling a near death experience three years ago when […]