Black Flute Brigade announce Under The Covers: Live From 2220 and share their take on ‘Folded’

28 October 2026

Photo: Isaiah Thomas

Black Flute Brigade are a Los Angeles-based flute collective featuring NOAMZ, B~Free, Aaron Shaw and Jon Ta Douglas. Bringing together influences from R&B, hip-hop, jazz and soul, the four musicians reinterpret familiar tracks through their arrangements for flute. After gaining attention online for their flute versions of well-known tracks by artists across genres, the group are now preparing to release their first live mixtape, Under The Covers: Live From 2220, arriving on November 6th through Leaving Records. Recorded during their debut live performance at 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles earlier this year, the mixtape features a selection of covers that reflects the range of the collective’s musical influences, with each member adding their own touch to the arrangements. A spontaneous collaboration to begin with, it has grown into a shared project built around musical freedom, community and a different take on what a flute ensemble can be.

Alongside the announcement, Black Flute Brigade have released their version of Kehlani’s ‘Folded’, bringing their flute arrangements to the contemporary R&B track. Take a listen now.

Ana Palindrome join World of Echo and share new single ‘A Man A Cure’

23 October 2026

Photo: Celeste Burdon

Irish trio Ana Palindrome have released their new single, ‘A Man A Cure’, through World of Echo, the label’s newest signing. Niamh Dalton (vocals, fiddle), Ruairi de Búrca (synths, programming) and Sara Leslie (bass, vocals), who make up the project, recorded the track in bedrooms, wardrobes and homemade vocal booths, ‘A Man A Cure’ reflecting their DIY approach to making music. The lyrics playfully question whether anyone can really be entirely self-made. It also offers a glimpse into Ana Palindrome, the  fictional character at the centre of the project, whose personality and aesthetic inform the trio’s songwriting and creative vision.

The release also marks an exciting moment for Ana Palindrome as they join the World of Echo roster. The trio are set to appear alongside labelmates Tara Clerkin Trio at two sold-out UK dates, as anticipation builds for their debut album, expected in early 2027.

‘A Man A Cure’ comes with an accompanying video and you can watch it below.

Conjunto Media Luna and Turbo Sonidero team up for new 7″ release Kumbia Temor / Kumbia Bogotà

22 October 2026

There’s an exciting new collaboration on the way from Bogotá’s Conjunto Media Luna and Puebla’s Turbo Sonidero, who have joined forces for a new 7-inch on Les Disques Bongo Joe. Both projects have been exploring the possibilities of contemporary cumbia from different perspectives, bringing together Bogotá’s experimental music scene and Mexico’s vibrant sonidero culture, rooted in sound systems, record collecting and neighbourhood parties. The two-track release features ‘Kumbia Temor’ on the A-side and ‘Kumbia Bogotá’ on the flip, and it marks the beginning of a larger collaboration between the two outfits, with a forthcoming album also in the works.

The 7-inch lands on November 6th, but we can already listen to ‘Kumbia Temor’ ahead of the release. The track mirrors the anxieties of our times, bringing a darker and dystopian edge to cumbia. But as the press release describes, “beneath this atmosphere of tension lies an invitation to keep moving, making noise and dancing despite everything.” Take a listen below.

Masayoshi Fujita to release new album, Forest of Tranquility, next month

19 October 2026

Photo: Ryo Noda

We’re thrilled to hear that Japanese vibraphonist, multi-percussionist, and composer Masayoshi Fujita has a new album on the way. A longtime favourite of ours, he has an extraordinary ability to conjure vivid landscapes and otherworldly atmospheres through sound. Following 2024’s Migratory, Fujita is now ready to share a new full-length album, Forest of Tranquility, out on November 13th through Erased Tapes. Originally composed as the soundtrack for Expo 2025’s vast living nature installation in Osaka, the album finds Fujita exploring the relationship between music and the natural world. Conceived as a peaceful sanctuary where visitors could escape the noise of everyday life and reconnect with their surroundings, Forest of Tranquility features seven long-form pieces that unfold like the changing rhythms of a day in the forest. Fujita explains:

“They had a biorhythm – in the morning you start a little bit slowly and with a little bit more space, and then around noon you get a little bit more active. Then in the afternoon you get more settled and calm, and around 6 o’clock you are more active, before revisiting calm.”

Having moved from Berlin to rural Japan in 2020, Fujita has found a close connection with nature, and that sense of wonder runs throughout the upcoming record. His marimba, vibraphone, and percussion are interwoven with field recordings of birds and frogs, atmospheric drones, and the sounds of Armenian duduk, played by Hayk Karoyi, and Japanese shō, played by Mattias Hållsten. The album’s underlying inspiration reaches beyond the forest itself. “I had this image of nature being a portal to the universe,” says Fujita. “The idea I have lately about nature is that it makes us aware of the universe that exists beyond it.”

Fujita has already shared two wonderful pieces from the album, the immersive opener ‘Portal to the Universe’ and the velvety and gentle title track. ‘Portal to the Universe’ was conceived as the final piece of the day, evoking a dark night. “I had the image of a very dark night sky in my head for that one… It feels like you are slowly drifting in the vast universe and the sea of memory”, remarks Fujita.The title track evokes the first light of day and the quiet awakening of the forest. As Fujita puts it, “This song was the opener of the day. The feeling of birth, a soft beginning of a day in the forest.”

Listen to both singles below.


Watch the video for Arandel’s new single ‘L’Heure du Loup’; new album Cosmogonies du Silence out in January

19 October 2026

French composer and producer Arandel has announced the release of his sixth album, Cosmogonies du Silence. The new record follows the two volumes of InBach, released in 2020 and 2021, in which he reworked the music of J.S. Bach using historical instruments from the Musée de la Musique in Paris. Six years later, he returns to his own compositions with a new album drawing on a decade of work, memory, absence, and mourning. Across ten pieces, Baroque motifs surface among spectral choirs, analogue electronics, and beats drawing on drill, R&B, chiptune, and lo-fi house. Arandel also takes inspiration from the experimental sound work of BBC Radiophonic Workshop pioneers Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, and John Baker, using manipulated recordings, altered voices, and fragments of melody to explore sound as a way of preserving traces of what has disappeared. To bring Cosmogonies du Silence to life, Arandel has also enlisted the help of Louis Delorme (Air, Sébastien Tellier), Ben Shemie (Suuns), Meryem Aboulouafa, Douglas Dare, and Félix Maritaud.

We’ll have to wait until January 22nd for the album to be out through InFiné, but we can already get a tantalizing taste of what’s coming with the first single, ‘L’Heure du Loup’. Named after the darkest hours before dawn, the track moved between sleep and waking, day and night, and this duality is reflected in the 2D animated video that accompanies it. Marina Dard directs. Watch it below.

Anna Butterss, John Raymond & Ben Lumsdaine share second single, ‘Parallax’, from upcoming LP Beginningless

19 October 2026

Photo: Robbie Jeffers

We’re less than a month away from the release Beginningless, the forthcoming album from Anna Butterss, John Raymond, and Ben Lumsdaine. Their first album as a trio, Beginningless is the the fruit of years of friendship and musical exchange, and was recorded live over two days in a Los Angeles studio, with very little overdubbing or post-production. Following the hazy, enveloping and gripping title track, Butterss, Raymond and Lumsdaine have shared a sublime new cut from the album, ‘Parallax’. Speaking about the new track, Raymond says:

“Over the course of the two days we were together in the studio, I think we tracked over 400 minutes of music. Everything was improvised, but at times the energy felt so good that these spontaneous moments turned into something like a song…a melody appeared, we intuitively heard a form together, and there was this almost telepathic connection as we created an arc and developed it together. “Parallax” was one of those moments for me. Anna and Ben throw down in the most beautiful of ways throughout the song, and it felt like we found something in this one.”

Listen to ‘Parallax’ below and grab the album when it drops on November 13th though Northern Spy.