the EP opening track's mimnimal piano is blended with a field recording of what sounds like an evangelical sermon and reversed sounds, so keep an open mind.

If you need some jazz tickled celestial chillout for your summer inactivity then look no further.

A pleasing drone gets the ball rolling, the perfect intro and backdrop to Manson's warm, intricate acoustic guitar work and gently insistent refrains that set a classic folk course

Cowley gets the ball rolling on “Tear” with some minimal, somehow distant keys that set a melancholic tone for the prompt arrival of Tsupryk’s achingly beautiful violin

he’s also got a fondness for fusing pan-Latin sounds with star gazing electronica, and for this new LP on the reliable Shika Shika label he’s marshalled quite the ensemble, made them some sandwiches and packed them off on a cosmic cruise.

Sahko Recordings deserve a long service achievement award for outsider electronica over the decades and you have to admire their continued vision in getting these three boundary nudging artists to align.

She’s had a nice line in ambient Americana for the last ten years, with numerous EPs and albums exploring the genre, at the same time as forming and fronting Once Great Estate who plough a more traditional Southern Americana furrow. She’s living the Americana dream.

but would also be the perfect shoulder to lean on in times of hardship - your next break up will never sound so good

to explore the horizontal star gazing, universal consciousness pondering end of the Americana spectrum

Well Remorae, where once their fusion could occasionally feel a touch unbalanced, have absolutely nailed it this time around.

deep space evoking, shape shifting slice of ambient drift

sees him heading further into soulful pop territory, but this is not autotuned, music by numbers fare, it's loose, live and swinging.

soaring through or levitating above mystic realms, propelled by the mantric minimalism he teases from his acoustic/electric guitars and bass

he's definitely made his mark on the track, but the essence is thankfully intact, and wisely so.

Zoe’s Shanghai dropped their first release in 2019, three years after I’d left Barcelona or else I’d have definitely seen them in...

"altruistic warmth, kosmische zeal & lysergic glee"

"Ha! Only being able to find one song online goes to prove that we were a pre-internet band!! I don't even think we had an email address."