Kirsten Agresta Copely – Winter’s Bone (Spotify)
”Winter’s Bone” is an atmospheric meditation on the stark days of a year’s last season. It was inspired by life in a tiny NYC apartment during a bitter and bone chilling winter. The darker ambiences are offset with glimmers of hope from the purposeful harp melody. It is the final song on ’Around The Sun,’ a compelling nine song cycle designed to take the listener on a unique 365-day journey.
Moshi – Here, Always (Spotify)
This is a peaceful piano ballad over a beautiful ambient backdrop of synth pads, evoking a "longing" feeling by using inverted chords and a flexible tempo to give the effect of always almost arriving home, but always leaving a desire for resolution, finally landing on it by the end of the song.
Jacob LaVallee – This Time (Spotify)
This is a track written with a melancholic, classical music tone. It was written during a time of personal trial by the artist , the music itself helped pull him through.
Holographic Field – Illuminate (Spotify)
The third single and title track of the upcoming album, ILLUMINATE, is a warm and deeply ambient track, that envelopes you within its muffled slow beats and joyous melodies - bringing you to a higher plane.
GARRETT PAKNIS, JAYDOT – Honey. (Spotify)
JAYDOT returns from his underground hit 'Stories' with a collaboration with GARRETT PAKNIS bringing chill, sexy, hypnotic vibes that'll have you wishing honey was dripping from *your* lips.
Jakspin – Aquarius (Spotify)
After going all acoustic on his last success of the single „Taurus“ Jakspin returns to his boom bap roots with the 90s sampling vibe while he still keeps it super soulful and super chillllllll....
Aquarius is a soothing minimalistic track that's both simple and varied at the same time. The glistening sparkling Rhodes chords get a surprise visit by distant horns that seem to draw you deeper into this energy of conteplative reflections.
Mastered by critically acclaimed sound engineer Steril One of STAUB Audio in Austria.
Macgray – Oblivion (Spotify)
The album "Journey to the Dawn" is the collapse of a man's world and its subsequent reconstruction. Panic attacks follow glimpses of absolute calm. When the inner voice awakens, reality is buried. Shadows of the unconscious become real. The whirlwind of thoughts suffocates. There is no way out, only a sense of the imminent arrival of the end.
In this story, "Oblivion" is a moment of passage, a transition to forgiveness. When one accepts and learns to forget...
Tableland – My Dreams Are Slowly Dying (Spotify)
Following Tableland’s debut release at the end of the decade that picked up support from the likes of DJ Bone, Danny Daze, Laurent Garnier, Jon Hester and Nemone on BBC 6 Music, the Girls of the Internet producer re-joins his self-titled imprint in 2020. The Girls Of The Internet continue to feed their superb reputation of delivering funk-fuelled electronics that draws inspiration from a variety of electronic music styles from the last 40 years.
‘My Dreams Are Slowly Dying’ kicks things off with pulsating kicks, undulant euphoria in the form of dreamy leads and stabbing melodies that fluctuate throughout. ‘Pyramid Scheme’ surges into squeaky modulations, jazzy tones and funky atmospherics that rolls with vibrant energy while ‘Charlie + Suzie’ offers up shuffling rhythms, subdued yet emotive synths underneath clattering highs and snares that get introduced in the latter stages.
Flowing grooves, a sultry sax line and inviting soulful elements take the focus in ‘This Must Be The Place’ before ‘Wormwood’ rounds off the enchanting EP with a calming house cut harmonising together exquisite keys, deep bass vibrations and uplifting oscillations which carry you away until the end.
Paul Haslinger – Berlin 86-11 (Spotify)
On Paul Haslinger's forthcoming LP Exit Ghost, the Tangerine Dream alumni has put together a solo offering that’s a world removed from the explorations of the seminal electronic outfit, as well as the recent sonic trips of Neuland. It sees him in a more reflective territory, from organic ambient constructions a la Colin Stetson to inward looking piano pieces a la Hauschka. All material emanated from a grand piano, and expanded outward from there.
Exit Ghost is his long thought out opus, a moment caught in time, flicking through reference points, taking an ethereal excursion that permeates musical genres as it becomes awash with intricate sounds and cross-pollinating rhythms. It’s out on new label Artificial Instinct on February 7th, 2020.
Ryuichi Sakamoto – The Staggering Girl (Spotify)
On his score for Luca Guadagnino's (Suspiria) The Staggering Girl, acclaimed visionary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto says, “When approaching the score for The Staggering Girl, I wanted to incorporate the tactile sound of Valentino's fabrics. So I asked them to send me some samples and utilizing special sensitive microphones, I experimented ‘playing’ the fabrics. I love the sound and how it forces one's attention to a sound all around us, yet almost entirely ignored.” Score details at Pitchfork.