"Even after nearly 30 years and more than 25 CDs of large ensemble music, Satoko Fujii continues to search for new ways to write for and perform with big bands. On Second Attempt (Libra Records, release date September 4, 2026), her thir...

"On Korekara (October 2, Libra Records) Satoko Fujii's Orchestra Nagoya celebrates the musicians and arts community that make the central Japanese city's culture scene so special. Fujii composed the four-part suite to honor the 20th ann...

"Dumb Tangerine Dream presents a somewhat different side to the group from that of Hand Signals, consisting of four extended space-y improvisations, but still served with plenty of their trademark burble and squeak. Or, in their own wor...

"A follow up to 'A Year In Any Other Place' (Falt) from 2022, 'The Root, The Interim' is a tape composition in four parts, drawing on the influences of musique concrete, cinema and dub. Constructed over 14 months in 2022-3, it is a tour...

"A new collaboration between Ross Scott-Buccleuch (Diurnal Burdens) and Andy Jarvis, Precedes has its origins in the series of blank tape compilations released by Ross on his tape label Steep Gloss. After being invited to contribute to ...

""In Uptown Bogland things sound great 'cardboard humans fall to pieces' was top-forty and the money was rolling in I should not have trusted dad I knew his weakness for the horse god but I am Dan Koelacanth I am a simple man I do not u...

"Creep Of Paris is the solo project of Thomas LaRoche (aka Eudocimus Ruber). Complementing his audio and visual output, he moonlights as an insect breeder and secondhand book seller. He has recorded on labels such as Drowned by Locals, ...

"Two longer live works of the now-patented blend of sound collage, crude tape mangling and music concrete sound events executed in a somewhat slapstick manner, where everything is balanced so thin that it can fall apart at any point. Fi...

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"French musician Bruno Duplant, who uses both analog and digital instruments in his performances, has produced a succession of excellent solo and collaborative works and released many recordings on numerous labels including Ftarri. Pier...

"Philadelphia-based artist Morgan Evans-Weiler performs on violin and is known as a member of the contemporary classical music ensemble Ordinary Affects. Percussionist Carlo Costa, who was born in Rome, has lived in New York since 2005....

Four major electroacoustic improvisers — Bryan Eubanks on soprano saxophone, electronics and modular synthesizer, Gert-Jan Prins on electronics and percussion, Tetuzi Akiyama on guitar, and Toshimaru Nakamura on no-input mixing board — each recorded separate solo performances, assembled by Prins, Eubanks and Nakamura into four distinct collective works of shifting textures and sonic interplay.

Using microphone, tractor, shovel and tape, Henry and Ken's Dead Mallard project turns rural machinery and found objects into raw electroacoustic noise on a winter 2026 recording from Pennsylvania, extending the absurdist farm-equipment experimentation of their self-titled debut through mechanical drone, object percussion, environmental resonance and tape manipulation.

Indonesian sound artist Theo Nugraha shares a split with Steve Davis' long-running +DOG+ project, pairing Nugraha's 15-minute "Dokset" with +DOG+'s equally expansive "April" in a meeting of Samarinda's experimental noise culture and an American project active since 1991, joining two independent approaches to electronics, improvisation, texture and underground sound.

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