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Four artists representing four different musical worlds are breathing new life into organ music. Ellen Arkbro keeps developing new conceptual ideas for using this instrument, Maja Ratkje adds additional sounds to it, Sarah Mary Chadwick uses it as an accompaniment to her songs and Kali Malone creates long, meditative drones, putting the ideas of deep listening into practice.

ent albums by FOQL and Jakub Lemiszewski brilliantly showcase music based on incessantly pulsating rhythm, which forms a crazy yet coherent conglomeration. Dren’s rhythms, on the other hand, are as steady as they are sinister, and the duo skilfully create their ambient space.

Is a revolution even possible? On their new records, Martim Monitz and Jad offer a direct, no-bullshit commentary on current events. And although they’re not trying to be innovative, they’ve still managed to fill an important niche on the Polish music scene.

Parallel Persia is an epic album, thoroughly thought out in terms of both form and narrative. SOTE delivers a brilliant combination of traditional acoustic sounds and electronica, an impressive sonic synthesis, an innovative look at what futuristic folk may sound like.

Amirtha Kidambi’s idiosyncratic vision of improvised music has found a brilliant outlet, informed by new sounds, yet still maintaining its distinctive character. From Untruth ranks among the most interesting, intriguing and poignant musical visions of recent years.

The young jazz scene is constantly growing in strength – like the legendary Polish Jazz series, which releases extremely interesting records by musicians from the young generation. Kuba Więcek Trio, Jerry & The Pelican System and EABS all look at jazz from different vantage points.