Charlotte Greve set to release debut solo album, Waterbodies, in October; shares lead single ‘Membranes’

08 July 2026

Photo: Annika Nagel Photography

Five years on from the release of Sediments We Move, German-born, Brooklyn-based saxophonist, composer and singer Charlotte Greve has announced the release of Waterbodies, arriving on October 2nd through New Amsterdam Records. The record marks the first release under her own name, following nine albums released through various band projects and collaborations.

Produced by Shahzad Ismaily, the album features an impressive group of collaborators including the New York-based vocal ensemble KHORIKOS and the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra. Written while Greve was pregnant with her first child, Waterbodies finds her bringing together the many different sides of her musical life, “shifting from spoken word to a full symphony orchestra, improvised jazz to bizarro synth-pop, power ballads to the serene, arpeggiated album closer”, as the press release describes. Charlotte comments:

“Although this is my 10th release, in many ways it feels like a debut. It captures the full range of what I’ve been drawn to musically. Rather than narrowing things down, I wanted to open them up, placing these disparate influences side by side and trusting their connection would come through because they’re all channeled through me.”

Soon after finding out she was pregnant, a friend encouraged her to record the album before the baby arrived, leading Greve to capture this particular moment in her creative life, resulting in a record that moves through many different landscapes. “This is the most holistic representation of my musical interests,” she says. “I wanted it to feel like a playground — the opposite of an easy-to-sell, career-minded, one-kind-of-thing record. In some ways, it made no sense. I was pregnant and pouring my money into something that was clearly not commercial. But this was a personal wish. Something I felt I had to do.”

She continues:

“With Waterbodies, I hope to invite the audience to experience the music as if walking through a film. Contrasting scenes unfold one after another, yet remain connected by a common thread.”

Coinciding with the album announcement, Greve has shared the first single from the album, ‘Membranes’, a bright and captivating track. The song reflects on the experience of holding different parts of oneself together and allowing them to exist alongside each other. “Membranes is a song about the challenge of carrying several hearts in one breast and wanting to feed them all,” explains Greve. “As a kid, I lived like a chameleon, changing my clothing, language and behavior, depending on who I was spending time with and where. The older I grew, the bigger the wish to combine all the different shapes and forms, both in my character as well as in my music. Let them all live alongside each other – the picture of the semi permeable membrane captured this desirable way of living for me.”

Listen to ‘Membranes’ now.

Echoes of Zoo preview upcoming third album, Collective Intelligence, with lead single ‘Flock Logic’

08 July 2026

There’s wonderful news from Echoes of Zoo, who have announced their third album, Collective Intelligence, arriving on October 2nd through Rebel Up! and Zephyrus Records. Bringing together Nathan Daems, Bart Vervaeck, Lieven Van Pée and Falk Schrauwen, whose credits also include other favourite outfits like Black Flower, Compro Oro and De Beren Gieren, the Belgian quartet continue to refine a distinctive musical language that draws from jazz, psychedelic rock, dub, African rhythmic traditions and adventurous improvisation. Inspired by the collective behaviour found throughout the natural world, the forthcoming Collective Intelligence takes swarms, flocks and ecosystems as its central point of departure. The album explores the forms of cooperation and communication that emerge between species, asking what they might reveal about the ways humans organise, respond and coexist.

Leading the announcement is ‘Flock Logic’, an exhilarating and electrifying first single sparked by the band’s time touring Brazil in early 2024. Watching vast flocks of birds move in perfect synchrony, while absorbing the infectious rhythmic energy of carnival, planted the seeds for the track. Echoes of Zoo comment:

“We had seen flocks of birds whirling in the sky and were wondering how they could navigate collectively as one mind. The madness of the carnival helped us to percolate some ideas for grooves and melodies into a hypnotic frenzy which finally became this energetic song.”

Listen to ”Flock Logic’ below.

Àbáse & Kacsó Hanga unveil collaborative new track ‘Fekete Szem / Black Eye’

07 July 2026

Àbáse‘s Awakening was one of our Album Picks of 2024, so we’re naturally excited to hear he has a new single out. ‘Fekete Szem / Black Eye’ finds the Berlin-based Hungarian producer, composer, improviser and keyboardist reconnecting with the folk traditions of his native Hungary, blending Hungarian folk music, jazz, hip-hop, electronic and avant-garde classical music. ‘Fekete Szem / Black Eye’ brings together an inspired cast of collaborators, including Hungarian folk singer Kacsó Hanga, cimbalom virtuoso Jenő Lisztes, bassist Petter Eldh, drummer Silvan Strauss and saxophonist Otis Sandsjö. Built around the music of composer Márta István, it also draws on Mihály Vörösmarty’s 1830 poem Fekete Szem and a folk melody collected by Béla Bartók, all reworked through Àbáse’s distinctive musical lens. Speaking about the starting point for the track, Àbáse says:

“I started researching Martaʼs work and came across his 1985 ‘Heartsʼ LP. As soon as I heard the opening track, I immediately heard these drums over it, and as soon as I hit the studio I did the draft idea. At its initial instrumental form, Mártaʼs composition is practically the core of the track, with added drums and bass that later received added layers and depth from Hangaʼs vocals and Jenoʼs cimbalom playing.”

On expanding the piece with the wider ensemble, he adds:

“Returning to Berlin, we had a two day session at the Brewery Studios where we further developed my beat ideas and demos on tape. It was important to me to involve international musicians so the Hungarian storyline gets a contemporary and outsider twist. Thatʼs how we developed the second section and improvised over Jenoʼs solo.”

Take a listen to ‘Fekete Szem / Black Eye’ below.

‘Fekete Szem / Black Eyeʼ is out now through Bridge The Gap & Oshu Records

Vanishing Twin set to release new album, Archives, in October; share two new cuts

03 July 2026

London supergroup Vanishing Twin have announced the release of their fifth full-length album. Entitled Archives, the record finds the trio of songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Cathy Lucas, drummer and percussionist Valentina Magaletti, and bassist and multi-instrumentalist Susumu Mukai continuing to push the boundaries of their singular sound, effortlessly weaving together psychedelic pop, avant-garde, jazz, kosmische and experimental influences. As the press release describes, Archives is “a collage of postmodern songcraft that finds transcendence in the shared experience of creation”. The album’s title reflects Vanishing Twin’s distinctive creative process of assembling and reshaping recordings, improvisations and musical sketches into richly textured compositions. Lucas describes the process as “gathering material together, riffing with it, turning it around on itself, trying to put the pieces together and create a story with it”. With Lucas now living in rural France and Magaletti and Mukai based in London, the trio exchanged songs and instrumental fragments remotely before transforming them into a cohesive whole. The result is another shapeshifting record that embraces experimentation and collective creativity, with “concepts of authorship and ownership dissolv[ing]” as the three musicians swap instruments and ideas throughout the recording process. As Magaletti notes, “music is just an energy, it doesn’t belong to anyone. No one channels it. It is bigger than the sum of its parts.”

Archives arrives on October 29th through Fire Records and ahead of it Vanishing Twin have let loose two singles from it, the title track and ‘Bring Me The Axe’. Speaking about the latter, the band says it is “loosely based on the story of Lizzy Borden, famous for the 1892 Fall River Murders. It’s about extremes. Extreme acts, extreme heat, and sonic extremes, the folkloric and the industrial.”

Listen to both cuts below.


Marina Herlop teases upcoming album, Dja Dja, with lead single ‘Jaque’

01 July 2026

Photo: Silvio Deiaco, Danilo Gambara & Christian Kondić

The first time we saw Marina Herlop perform was at Le Guess Who? in 2022, where her intricate vocal work, layered compositions and unconventional approach to songwriting quickly drew us into her singular musical world. The Catalan composer, vocalist and pianist blurred the lines between contemporary classical music, experimental electronics and pop, creating a performance that was as disorienting as it was captivating.

Now, and following the piano-centred minimalism of 2016’s Nanook and 2018’s Babasha and the adventurous electronic explorations of 2022’s Pripyat and 2023’s Nekkuja, Herlop has announced the release of Dja Dja, her fifth album. Arriving on October 9th. the new record brings together those different strands while also introducing new elements, including brass arrangements and Balinese gamelan. Developed over the past three years, with most of it written, recorded and produced by Herlop in her home studio, Dja Dja was conceived as a single, interconnected work, with each composition forming part of a larger whole. It also marks Herlop’s first self-released album, reflecting the independent approach behind its creation.

Alongside the announcement, Herlop has shared the the lead single, ‘Jaque’, an utterly gorgeous and wildly exhilarating and absorbing piece. Take a listen below.

Firas Zreik unleashes video for second single ‘Ambivalent’

27 June 2026

Palestinian composer and kanunist Firas Zreik is just weeks away from releasing his new full-length album Tarabesque, arriving July 31st through Amir ElSaffar’s Maqām Records. The New York-based musician is one of the instrument’s most inventive contemporary voices, expanding the expressive possibilities of the kanun.  On the upcoming Tarabesque, Zreik brings the kanun into conversation with a jazz quartet, a hybrid ensemble and an Arab takht ensemble, creating a rich musical landscape where modal traditions and contemporary harmonic ideas coexist with ease. After introducing the record with the gorgeous and compelling ‘Fields of Figs’, Zreik has now shared a second preview in the form of ‘Ambivalent’, another beautiful and engrossing track. The single comes with an accompanying live video recorded live at Figure-8 Recording and you can watch it below.