Rati Oniani’s new album doubles as a soundtrack to a documentary about his grandfather, weaving Svaneti folklore and progressive experimentation into an archive of personal memory.
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Rati Oniani’s new album doubles as a soundtrack to a documentary about his grandfather, weaving Svaneti folklore and progressive experimentation into an archive of personal memory.
Across four succinct pieces, the Tokyo-based composer uses the sounds of storms, lawnmowers, migrating geese, and winter fires to trace the calendar’s moods, with help from Ayako Fujii and Dan West.
The album uses a thematic tagging system to reorganise field recordings, producing collages where water phases, animal calls, and electromagnetic fields collide with unforced logic.
The album mines declassified recordings and Indonesian horror to ask hard questions about democracy, power, and historical amnesia.
The remote collaboration collects sound memories from London, Japan, and New Zealand, then pairs them with a custom fragrance to anchor a quiet meditation on travel and environmental loss.
Taja Cheek returns with a 13-track follow-up to I Killed Your Dog, out August 14 on Mexican Summer, and a lead single that moves from coiled calm to explosive release.
The Montreal band’s ninth album sets aside percussion entirely, letting Robin Wattie’s voice and layers of distorted guitar carry the emotional weight.
A.G. Syjuco does not announce himself loudly. Under the name Black Leather Birds he has spent the last five years building a body of work that feels less like a catalogue of releases and more like a series of rooms you enter and do not entirely leave. Launched during the 2020 pandemic as a personal …
The ensemble brings sewing machines, spinning wheels, and credit cards to the stage for the release of Sharper Than a Needle, a work that reconfigures the sounds and stories of garment workers.
The composer returns to form with three pieces built from note sequences, chord roots, and almost nothing else.
