80s gloss meets heartfelt piano-led pop that shimmers with a uniquely Melbourne accent.

Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird are a Melbourne-based indie-pop collective with a story book name and a reputation for blending heartfelt songwriting with eclectic textures and a taste for retro stylings. Led by the irrepressibly inventive Lachlan Rose, the band have built a reputation for lush arrangements and a theatrical sensibility, equally at home in intimate ballads and widescreen anthems (or ... read more

Reclaiming control of her career, Kesha takes her brand of pop to a hall of mirrors, gleefully blurring genres until the borders are irrelevant.

Kesha arrived on the scene like a glitter-bombed comet crashing into the late-2000s pop landscape. Back then, the music was brash, Auto-Tuned, and unapologetically chaotic, a character she managed to embody and cleverly satirise. But the years since have been defined by transformation: her well-documented legal battles, the reclamation of her artistic ... read more

Rich instrumentation augments raw truth to form into a defiant, soul-bearing odyssey that is as poetic as it is self-revelatory.

Kae Tempest is a British poet, playwright, novelist and recording artist whose work blends spoken word with hip hop, electronic,and live instrumentation. Emerging from London’s performance poetry scene in the early 2000s, they gained acclaim for incisive storytelling rooted in working-class experience, social critique and emotional honesty. Tempest’s ... read more

A sensational debut full of daring and raw potential, that  dazzles, disrupts and frequently disorients.​

Qur’an Shaheed is a pianist, poet, and vocalist from Pasadena, now based in Inglewood, California. The daughter of two professional musicians (her mother a piano teacher, her father a musical director for Marvin Gaye), Shaheed received classical piano training from the age of four.

Over time, she has evolved into a fearless improviser and genre-defying composer. Her music, ... read more

On the landmark New York jazz stage, Cross’s tuba-powered ensemble channels energy, ritual and improvisational mastery across a live set shaped like a DJ's playlist, that is immersive, expansive and (yes) affirmative!

​Theon Cross is the London-based tubist whose Afro‑Caribbean beat fusion and jazz explorations have made him one of the most original voices in contemporary UK jazz. Rising to prominence through Sons of Kemet and associations with Nubya Garcia, Moses Boyd, and ... read more

New Zealand’s finest spiritual-jazz astronauts keep the groove grounded and the soul elevated.​ A unified groove collective, connecting deep jazz, soul-fusion, and masterful improvisation.

Hailing from Aotearoa/New Zealand, The Circling Sun is a shapeshifting ensemble of jazz musicians, producers, and crate-diggers associated with bands like Yoko-Zuna, Avantdale Bowling Club, and the Māori-Polynesian collective movements. Blending Pharoah Sanders-inspired spirituality with ’70s ... read more

A sun-drenched tapestry of neo-soul, jazz, and Pacific rhythms, that blossoms with warmth, groove and global curiosity.

At its core, 'Ripen Vol. 1' is music made by humans - 14 collaborators to be precise - all brought together under Sampology's direction as writer, composer, arranger, producer and mixer.

The EP showcases an array of instrumentation including vocal trios, strings, trumpet, saxophone, bass, double bass, congas, timbales, synths and drum machines, and was written ... read more

A hushed and fragile meditation on grief and renewal - an ambient-pop requiem that is all the more moving for it's context.

Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds is renowned for blending neoclassical minimalism with ambient electronics, creating introspective soundscapes that pair piano, strings, and modular synths with subtle field recordings. His work spans solo albums, film scores, and collaborations with artists like Nils Frahm and Bonobo.

Talos is the recording project of the ... read more

Music has to have everything: overwhelming power, illuminating light, endless gentleness and the deepest darkness. Fury, pain, remorse. Everything that makes us human. And the tender touch of redeeming love. - Erkki-Sven Tüür

Aeris is the ninth ECM New Series album to feature the vibrant and highly expressive music of Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür. Olari Elts, a long-time champion of Tüür’s work, conducts the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in ... read more

A contemporary soul album that is filled with the spirit of Motown and Stax Records - vintage warmth, blooming in slow motion.​

Durand Jones & The Indications are a retro-soul group formed in Indiana, built around the dual vocal leadership of Durand Jones, whose gospel-trained grit evokes Otis Redding and Bill Withers, and drummer-falsetto Aaron Frazer, whose airy tone recalls Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield. Together, they fuse soul tradition with modern nuance.

Flowers finds the ... read more

Blending South Asian, Persian and Arab influences, Balani’s jazz elegy for Sindh is conceptually unified, emotionally layered, and musically sophisticated.

Tarun Balani is an Indian drummer, composer, and producer whose work traverses modern jazz, electronica, and South Asian traditional forms. Based in New Delhi and trained at Berklee, he leads multiple projects including Dharma and Seasonal Affected Beats. Balani’s music is conceptually ambitious, rhythmically intricate, and ... read more

A classic reimagined for today: flute-driven jazz-rap, socially urgent lyrics and dance-floor pulse coalesce in a powerful update that bridges protest-era soul with modern consciousness.

Brian Jackson is best known as the musical architect behind Gil Scott‑Heron’s early 1970s classics; a pianist, flutist, and co-writer whose electric Rhodes and flute lines helped shape albums like Pieces of a Man and Winter in America. After decades behind the scenes, Jackson has emerged as a solo ... read more

The album dazzles with its display of range and rawness: a theatrical feast of folklore and modernity, of ambience and emotional presence.

Natalia Lafourcade, Mexico’s genre-defying songstress and a four-time Grammy winner, channels her “Cancionera”, the theatrical alter ego of a mystical songstress-witch, which she has adopted for this album and tour. A master at blending regional Mexican folk with chamber-pop, she harnesses analog spontaneity and lush instrumentation to ... read more

A 42-track collection made from re-discovered archival recordings becomes a spoken word scrapbook that adds context to the late singer's haunted masterpiece.

Nick Drake (1948–1974) was a reclusive English singer-songwriter whose three albums - Five Leaves Left (1969), Bryter Layter (1971) and Pink Moon (1972) - drew little attention in his lifetime but, a generation on, gained cult status for their haunting beauty and became hugely influential for singer-songwriters in multiple ... read more

Beautifully sung and subtly written, this trio’s promising debut is limited only by its narrow musical and emotional range.

Folk Bitch Trio are a Naarm/Melbourne-based three-piece featuring former high school friends Heide Peverelle, Jeanie Pilkington and Gracie Sinclair. Known for their angelic vocal blend, poetic sensibilities, and acoustic minimalism, they emerged from the city’s fertile indie-folk scene with a shared commitment to lyric-driven, harmony-rich songwriting.
Now ... read more

A collection of songs remembered, reimagined and reverently reborn.

Paul Weller, former frontman of The Jam and The Style Council, has built a formidable solo career marked by reinvention, soulful introspection, and genre fluidity. Over four decades, he’s moved from punk and mod revival to pastoral folk, electronic pop and beyond, remaining a restless craftsman with a poet’s eye for detail.

On first glance El Dorado appears to be a collection of deep-cut covers of songs by obscure ... read more

Minimalism’s Big Bang, joyfully detonated all over again.

Terry Riley is a pioneering American composer best known for In C (composed 1964, recorded and released 1968), a foundational minimalist work that helped reshape 20th-century classical music. Drawing from Indian raga, jazz, and improvisation, Riley’s work bridges composition and spontaneity. His influence extends through Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and the broader experimental and electronic scenes.

Iron Giant Free ... read more

An inward journey through minimalist textures—a luminous blend of jazz precision and emotional resonance.

Vincent Meissner, born in 2000, is a German pianist-composer crafting a singular voice within modern European jazz. Centered in his trio with Josef Zeimetz (bass) and Henri Reichmann (drums), Meissner draws on classical lyricism and the exploratory energies of artists like Vijay Iyer, Esbjörn Svensson, and Michael Wollny.
With Eigengrau, Meissner’s third album, the ... read more

In this meditative odyssey, Lubimov guides Silvestrov’s compositions, like echoes of memory through a tapestry of whispered reverie.

Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov has emerged as a neoclassical visionary, defining “meta-music” with lyrical echoes of past masters.

Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov, a Neuhaus protégé and champion of both period and modern repertoire, delivers this piano portrait with decades of insight and emotional nuance. ... read more

Here is an artist who insists on evolving in times of war and weaponized entertainment, challenging herself and her peers, she asks - “how can this be, how can we live with ourselves, how can we find each other and the truth, how can we get free?”

Brooklyn-based Arab-American DJ, producer DJ Haram (Zubeyda Muzeyyen) is a self-described “multidisciplinary propagandist” whose work fuses Jersey club, punk, electronic, rap and Middle Eastern instrumentation. After carving ... read more