CLASSICAL/ JAZZ/ BLUES

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…

Oxford-based artist Antonio Celotto is building inner landscapes. A multi-instrumentalist, composer, and filmmaker with Italian roots and years of live performance behind him, Celotto approaches music the way a director approaches a scene, with emotion first, atmosphere next, and pacing always in mind. That mindset flows seamlessly into his original…

Annstiina’s field waits, listens, and then quietly floors you. Known for her experimental art pop, the Finnish artist strips everything back here, sitting alone at the piano and letting improvisation do the heavy lifting. It comes off cinematic as it evokes the connection to land, memory, and survival, echoing the…

New Zealand–born, London-based keyboardist and producer Ben Stewart captures a beautiful tug-of-war on Live from Lloyd’s Place, his latest two-track EP. This EP comes off intimate, restless, and profound all at once. Released via HUMMUCIDE Music, this short but potent live session thrives on contrast, pitting mental overload against calm…

British-born musician and composer Peter Dulborough returns with William. Released on December 5, 2025, this EP comes as a letter set to music. Rooted in piano-led songwriting and rich with folk, art rock, classical, and trumpet-led textures, the EP draws deeply from family history, memory, and a longing for peace…

Wanderlust is the sound of a life packed into a suitcase and shaken across borders until it glows. Scottish-based artist LUISA, a classically trained pianist, producer, and military spouse, spent 2019–2025 living in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine, and Albania. Instead of just collecting photos, she collected sounds from street…