Our Recommendations for You - Last Updated 30/07/2026
// Jazz & Improv //
Bobby Previte:
A half-century into his career, Bobby Previte is still pushing himself: "For the first time my music is coming through the drums rather than around them." On his new album, he channels them into fluent, focused improvisations, each instrument holding its own space, locking tightly into a mystery.
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Kamila Csenge:
Guitarist Kamila Csenge wanted to deal with phenomena and philosophies defying the limits of human comprehension. Paradoxically, the results - somewhere between blissful jazz and progressive fusion – do not take the listener to the borders of the galaxy, but an intimate inner cosmos.
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Jan Lukas Roßmüller:
There is something magical about the moment when, after a disc of solo piano, Roßmüller's trio rises from a state of stillness for another album's worth of music. Thinking horizontally and painting with light lines, the experience never feels excessive – and more like catharsis through clarity.
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// Electronic Music, Hip Hop //
Marconi Union:
Many artists have felt a kinship with the work of Mark Rothko. Marconi Union, however, managed to pull off something quite unique in creating music based on Rothko's multiforms which feels like weightlessly drifting through his paintings – navigating a world of dark colours and emotional resonance.
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Chris Maico Schmidt:
One of Germany's original techno pioneers, Chris Maico Schmidt keeps carrying the torch for some of the fundamental values that turned electronic club music from an underground phenomenon into a new philosophy of life – as a DJ, a radio host or, as on his atmospheric new EP, with his music.
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Danalogue:
Drawing from sci-fi and a lifetime of production experience, Danalogue's debut solo LP opens up a portal into a state where forms crumble and the mind opens up to receive sound in its purest, most powerful form. Imagination is a “radical act” here – of creating world we actually want to live in.
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// Sound Art, Experimental Music //
Heli Hartikainen:
On the “Interbody EP,” the sound artist engages with a self-programmed software organism, Hartikainen responding intuitively to unpredictable transformations of her gorgeously recorded sax lines. The machine is a distorted mirror here, leading her to places between chaos and control.
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Cosimo Fiaschi:
Fiaschi's new work is written entirely around a single saxophone multiphonic which he slowly raises, rotates and reveals. Maximally minimal in its outward appearance, the music is actually a result of extreme focus: ”Many possibilities simply fell away by following the logic of the material.”
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BAG:
“Field recording is truly magical. Once the record button is pushed, you are almost forced to listen instead of just hear.”
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// Rock, Indie, Folk //
Chevreuil:
Most bands think of music as an expression of electricity. To French duo Chevreuil, it is a subset of magnetism – metallic particles aligning into patterns, minds drawn together by forces of sonic attraction. Dark, yet sensual and strangely refined, this is the arthouse version of post rock.
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Natacha Atlas:
Borders have never been able to contain the Belgian-Egyptian songwriter's creativity. Together with her congenial partner Samy Bishai, even classical music theory crumbled, as the duo fused Arabic pop with scifi electronica, enriching Western harmonies with a little quarter tone magic.
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Marcelo Callado:
For 90s club act Snap!, rhythm was a dancer. For drummer Marcelo Callado, it is a songwriter. In his floating, sensual world, percussive layers support melodies and harmonies, which, in turn, inspire grooves and patterns, occasionally discharging into hypnotic loops of psychedelic eruptions.
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// Classical, Neoclassical, and Contemporary Composition //
Sarah Rothenberg:
“Daring” is not a word you hear often in classical music. To pianist Sarah Rothenberg it is pivotal for picking the pieces for her programs: Repertoire too daring for its time, so daring it questions your ideas about music, so daring it still sets your pulse racing 200 years after it was written.
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Simone Dinnerstein:
For pianist Simone Dinnerstein, playing a piece is always personal, a process of mental digestion and physical performance which yields an emotionally complex result. In the end, however, neither composer nor performer ought to over-rate their importance: “The music has a much greater life.”
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Johanna Summer:
In the studio, Johanna Summers asked three of her pianist colleagues to play her a classical or contemporary composition as a starting point. Her instant responses fall in between continuation, transformation and composition, liquifying the dividing line between original and variation.
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