When composer and violinist Galya Bisengalieva first conceived her 2020 album Aralkum, it was to be a meditation on ecological loss and grief, both metaphorically and literally through the shrinking of the Aral Sea, one of the worst man-made environmental disasters on the planet.

Recorded live at KoncertKirken during the Vinterjazz festival in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 18, 2017.

Swedish composer Kajsa Lindgren controls an environment of whisper-quiet fragility on her latest album for Sean McCann's Recital imprint. Clean, precise and contemporary, but rooted in European sacred music of the recent past >> one for fans of Félicia Atkinson, Sarah Davachi, Kali Malone or Arvo Pärt.

Jan Jelinek shifts into sound college mode for 'The Raw and the Cooked', alchemically processing the sound of material as it changes form. Lifted concrete music that's like Luc Ferrari or Bernard Parmigiani thrown into an anti-gravity chamber…

Lawrence English follows the excellent pipe organ-focused 'Lassitude' with another elevated set of syrupy drone poems built around Charlemagne Palestine's concept of "maximal minimalism". Glacial stuff, in the best possible way >> think Kali Malone, Ellen Arkbro, Phill Niblock or Éliane Radigue.

Chock full of humid, resonant soundscapes that bend time and emphasize texture, tone and timbre, Sarah Davachi's latest is her most defining and rewarding full-length to date. We're floored, again - there's nobody else doing it quite like this.

Che’Z Enrique Collins (born January 1, 1990), known as The Enigma TNG, is an American music composer and YouTuber. Before becoming “The Enigma TNG,” Che’Z created older original tracks as a young teen. Gaining inspiration from artists such as Skrillex, Deadmau5, The Birthday Massacre and many others, he began creating his tracks in FL Studio.

In one of the most striking debuts of recent years, Jo David Meyer Lysne’s ‘Henger i Luften’ (literally, ‘Hang in the Air’), magically combines the conversational fluency of contemporary chamber music with the extended sound-making techniques and alertness to the moment associated with experimental improvisation.

Mute presents Cabaret Voltaire's Dekadrone, the first of two drone albums by Cabaret Voltaire to be released in 2021. Dekadrone delves deeper into Cabaret Voltaire’s arsenal of “harsh rhythms and threatening detonations” (Classic Pop).

The kind of time-travel that occurs when listening back to recordings from 30+ years ago is a peculiar experience. I can still vividly remember sitting on the floor of my flat in Battersea, South London, the walls, floor and ceiling all painted black, crouched over my luxuriously expensive Fostex 280 (over £700 in the mid 1980s) and making these recordings. I’d had to save up for countless months for such a machine, and it was a dream come true.

The very talented Mr Vanbergen returns to Music For Dreams with Coloured Cones, inspired at large by Ghent filmmaker and painter Michael Borremans. With Reinhard Vanbergen's days since Das Pop entering him into a world of soundtrack production for movies, short films, documentaries and commercial work, Coloured Cones seems exactly one of those. With little information to surface of this release we can only assume this is the music of a film we've yet to see (or have we?), with the storylines and motifs his Belgian counterparts themes coming through in folky ambient strings, plucked percussion and wavering, surf guitars. A fragmentary John Fahey of the spaced-out cinematic future.

Room 40 follow last year's "Echos+" stunner with a new collection of work from octogenarian Argentinian composer Beatriz Ferreyra, showcasing her exceptional psychedelic electronics, apocalyptic concrète experimentation and disorienting synth wandering.

Alternate African Reality is a follow-up to several compilations I have published on Syrphe since 2007 (the first one, Beyond Ignorance and Borders included various artists from Africa and Asia), and even earlier on my defunct tape label in the 1990s (the last tape, Archives Humaines vol.1, was published in 1996 and included 25 artists from 25 countries, including non-Western ones : South Africa, Japan, Chile, Brazil).

One of NYC’s most curious, fwd mutants Nik Dawson aka Bookworms weaves ancestral rhythms and tempered modular tonalities to express his feelings for Documenting Sound. It’s an Escher-like labyrinth of torched sound design and bleary-eyed isolationist experiments that are both Psychedelic and complex but never impenetrable, digesting like an extended-release blotter for fans of Autechre at their most confounding, Terrence Dixon's mindbending sci-fi neural networks and Arca's melted elastic post-everything soundscraping.

Electro-acoustic sound sculptor Siavash Amini's latest full-length is inspired by a series of repeating nightmares and Muhammad ibn Mahmoud Hamadâni’s ‘Book of marvels’. It's safe to say it's a transportive experience in textural microtonality: suffocating at times and distressing at others, but with occasional cracks of sunlight.