After a career that ran from Swiss rock stages to Hollywood guitar school and a late return through ambient lo-fi, the Thun producer treats September light as an instrument.
After a career that ran from Swiss rock stages to Hollywood guitar school and a late return through ambient lo-fi, the Thun producer treats September light as an instrument.
Faroese composer and producer Benjamin Djurhuus spent a long stretch of his working life just off camera. He mixed, wrote, arranged, and helped other records find their shape. He grew up around church music, then moved through folk, pop, rock and jazz until production became the job. By 2019 that work had a public edge. …
The Chicago instrumental group’s second preview from Begin Yr Singing trades the twitchy energy of their debut single for chunky, riff-driven guitar work.
The guitarist’s new album for Bass Ritual trades category for patience, building reverb-heavy figures into something closer to landscape than song.
The Ecuadorian-Swiss duo use the mountain range as both landscape and memory on their Dan Auerbach-produced instrumental record, out September 25.
Dan Webb returns with “Things Rise and Fall,” a cinematic jazz-fusion single featuring Logan Kane. A restless, layered instrumental that moves like light changing over an unfamiliar city.
A Belgian composer maps the pressure systems of the self with piano, strings and rare restraint.
The producer and musician, known for shaping albums by Bob Dylan and U2, points past his signature atmospherics on Belladonna Nocturne.
The duo’s new album summons the textures of 1960s and 1970s film scores, arranging instrumental sketches as if they were scenes from movies that never existed.
The Japanese instrumental group’s new album, *Snowdrop*, channels the late producer’s spirit through Brad Wood and a full choir and orchestra.