istimtā’ – a romanticised take on the Arabic word ‘إِسْتِمْتَاع’, meaning ‘jouissance’ or ‘enjoyment’. The instrumental album from composer Horny Cricket explores this concept wholeheartedly.
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Musically this entire album is unrivalled in its superiority as a fully-loaded, compelling and awe-inspiring journey.
Composer-producers Melissa Grey and David Morneau join forces with guitarist and artist Robert Kirkbride, for this unrivaled instrumental project of deeply-moving arrangements and ideas.
Audio exploration at both its most purely human and vastly experimental – composer and artist Rosemary Bensko (Sound Animal) takes on the creative realm with fearless originality, for By Voicelight.
Intricate design and heartfelt intentions unite beautifully, for the extensive and unmistakable orchestral journey that is MAQ’s Light Up.
Returning to start off the new year with a beautifully complex yet pure of heart new project, composer and producer Darren J Harris delivers the superb new album Beyond; reminding listeners of precisely the soul and contemplative wonder that his approach brings to ambient music. We were blessed with the opportunity to catch up with … Continued
From the creative who brought us Robot Raven, WHISTLEWIT is the multi-faceted new ID, delivering memories of what many considered a simpler, happier time, through the Sunflower ’69 album.
Lifelong composer, teacher and innovator Tom Stone has compiled his years of experience in music theory and practice alike, to invent the new 16-note instruments Sharmachord and Lila.
Heavily creative and theatrically captivating, Throwaway takes artistic expression by storm with the brief yet striking Kyubabe.
“I mainly compose by singing and imagination. I start singing the main idea and imagining the main parts. After I know the vibe that I’m aiming for I’ll continue developing it on the piano and build the parts in Cubase.”
Continuing his fearlessly unique manner of fusing genres and tones, Erik Engelhardt further elevates his audio identity, with the unorthodox yet mighty presentation of a fast-paced and celebratory Happy Again.
Featuring an impressively vast 127 voices from 15 different nations, Sing In Unity is a huge project but with a notably accessible, musically-minded simplicity at its core.