CLASSICAL/ JAZZ/ BLUES

Released on February 13, 2026, Temperament arrives as the debut full-length from UK electronic producer Chris Ami, and it is one heck of an entrance. Spanning nine tracks, the album moves through a series of emotional and psychological states, using single-word titles to sketch a loose but purposeful inner journey.…

Following the shadowy pull of Beat The Drum’s earlier release “Black Sunset,” “Into Your Heart” feels like a companion piece that turns inward and upward at the same time. Built from neo-Sufi ambience, space music drift, and stripped-back touches of voice, piano, and violin, the track reaches for something more…

Bassist-composer Daren Burns has always been a musical shapeshifter, but on Fragmentation, he seems to gather all his histories, straight-ahead jazz, rock, avant-garde, and electric edges, into one wild, double-quartet fever dream. With fretless bass at the core and an eight-piece band of Southern California improvisers orbiting around him, this…

Vladyslav Ustiuhov’s debut recording of Beethoven’s “Waldstein” (Op. 53), “Appassionata” (Op. 57), and Op. 111 is like a line in the sand. Shaped by Ukrainian and Russian musical roots, then sharpened through intense training at the Boston Conservatory and the Frost School of Music, Ustiuhov plays these sonatas like they’re…

Montreal-based pianist/composer Pat Piperni is sitting you down in a quiet room, turning the lights low, and letting a single piano tell the truth on “Quiet Storm” (released December 23, 2025). Recorded and mastered solo in his home studio, with digital piano (Ivory 3) through Cubase, the track wears its…

The Lars Pagelsen Trio is gonna make you lean in closer with this one. Formed in early 2025 after meeting at Dr. Hoch’s Conservatory in Frankfurt, pianist and composer Lars Pagelsen, bassist Alisa Pou Montz, and drummer Felix Lothwesen have shaped what they call “mindfuljazz”: not a genre, but a…

Alasdair James Dodds has a rare knack for making silence feel alive, and “Disillusionment” is a powerful reminder of just how much emotional weight a single piano can carry. Released on October 11, 2025, this instrumental piece feels like the distilled essence of Dodds’ long, winding creative journey—one shaped by…

Karen Salicath Jamali begins 2026 with a breath. Her new single, “Angel Sandalphon (The Angel of New Beginnings),” released on January 29, feels like a quiet clearing of the slate—a gentle invitation to step into the year with intention. It’s her first release of the year, and fittingly, it arrives…

New York–based composer Kevin Keller turns silence into something meaningful in his intimate release, “Reflections Below.” Rooted in ambient chamber music, the track draws inspiration from Erik Satie’s emotional restraint and Tangerine Dream’s cosmic drift, and sounds like Keller standing alone at the edge of something vast, letting beauty and…

Brighton-based cinematic experimenter Third Bloom teams up with the ever-unclassifiable Mishkin Fitzgerald on Archive. This album does a slow pan across a ruined landscape of memory. With electronic and classical music, shaped with a soundtrack composer’s instinct, Archive imagines a post-apocalyptic Britain where nothing familiar survives except echoes. It’s heavy…