Portico Quartet’s Jack Wyllie announces debut album, Eternal Spring, and shares title track

19 June 2026

A central figure in the UK jazz scene, Jack Wyllie is best known as a co-founding member of Portico Quartet and a member of Szun Waves. Wyllie has also explored new territory in recent years through Paradise Cinema, the project he launched in 2020 with a debut album followed by a second one in 2024. Now, the the multi-instrumentalist and composer is stepping into the spotlight with the announcement of his first album under his own name. Entitled Eternal Spring, the album arrives on September 11th through Gondwana Records, and marks a significant new chapter for a musician whose work has consistently pushed beyond the boundaries of jazz. Eternal Spring draws inspiration from both Wyllie’s love of nature and the idea of an enduring sense of hope, and it finds him exploring a wide musical landscape, bringing together elements of jazz, ambient music, contemporary classical and post-rock. Joining Wyllie on the record are fellow Portico Quartet members Duncan Bellamy on drums and Milo Fitzpatrick on bass, alongside pianist and composer Hania Rani, cellist Dobrawa Czocher and Australian mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean.

Ahead of the album’s release, Wyllie has shared the ravishing and resplendent title track, which serves as a very exciting taste of what’s coming. Speaking about the track, Wyllie says:

“I tried to capture that feeling at the start of this piece, with a layered string quartet playing harmonics and arpeggios, hovering rather than settling. Underneath it all are these Riley-esque synth lines, really quite simple, but always turning. I feel like the whole tune sounds as if the album is slowly waking up.”

‘Eternal Spring’ comes paired with a live video directed and produced by Francesco Martinuzzi. Watch it below.

Corey King’s new album, Change the Wind, out in July

17 June 2026

Wonderful news from Corey King, who has a new album on the way. A brilliant composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, King has worked with an incredible range of artists over the years, including Esperanza Spalding, Gil Scott-Heron, Milton Nascimento, Bonobo, DJ Premier, and Iggy Pop. Now, the GRAMMY winner is preparing to release Change the Wind, his latest full-length album. Arriving on July 24th through Western Vinyl, the upcoming Change the Wind is informed by a period of major change in King’s life. Written across years that included lockdowns, constant travel, and the experience of becoming a father, the album reflects on uncertainty, growth, and the people who keep us grounded. The album explores the emotions that come with change, and the relationship with his daughter sits at the heart of it. Across its nine tracks, King blends soulful songwriting, jazz-inflected arrangements, groove, and rich horn parts. He enlisted the help of close collaborators to bring the album to life, including Esperanza Spalding and Takuya Kuroda.

Two tracks have been unveiled so far. Lead single ‘Distant Ray’ pairs elegant instrumentation with a message about trusting yourself and pushing forward when the way ahead isn’t entirely clear, and the newly released ‘Off the Embankment’ is driven by an infectious Afrobeat-inspired groove, bold brass arrangements, and Kuroda’s excellent trumpet contribution. Lyrically, the track captures the contradictory feeling of wanting to create and finding reasons not to. Take a listen to both singles below.


Dan Webb drops brand new track, ‘Hungry Ghosts’

16 June 2026

Photo: Ya Ting Kee

Australian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Dan Webb has spent the past two decades developing a genre-crossing sound, drawing from disparate genres like jazz, rock and electronic music. A 2024 Music Producers & Engineers’ Guild of Australia Award nominee for Self-Producing Artist of the Year, Webb has built a reputation for taking an adventurous approach to composition and production. He has unveiled a brand new track, ‘Hungry Ghosts’, an energetic instrumental that blends psychedelic jazz-rock, daring improvisation and a driving groove. To bring ‘Hungry Ghosts’ to life, Webb assembled an impressive cast of musicians, including drummer Clive Deamer (Radiohead, Portishead), keyboardist Dennis Hamm (Thundercat) and guitarist Bob Lanzetti (Snarky Puppy). The track is inspired by Webb’s move from Melbourne to Singapore in 2023 and takes its title from Singapore’s annual Hungry Ghost Festival. Drawing on the festival’s themes, ‘Hungry Ghosts’ reflects the experience of leaving one chapter behind and adapting to life in a new environment. “‘Hungry Ghosts’ became a meditation on leaving one life behind and stepping into another,” Webb explains. “The festival is rooted in rituals of remembrance, wandering spirits, and the space between worlds, which mirrored my own psychological experience of relocating and rebuilding.”

Accompanying the single release is a striking and vibrant music video created entirely by Webb using his own Webb Warp, a free, synesthetic browser-based audiovisual platform, which lets users transform music into reactive 3D visuals in real time. Watch the video below.

Horse Lords unveil video for title track ‘Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!’; new album out this Friday

10 June 2026

Photo: Kasia Zacharko

We’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of Horse Lords’ new album, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, ever since they announced it back in March. Having already shared the insanely brilliant and infectious ‘Eureka 378-B’ and ‘Brain of the Firm’, followed by the jaw-dropping ‘First Galactic Utopia’, Horse Lords continue to prove they are one of the most exciting bands out there. Now, with the album’s release just a couple of days away, the quartet keeps raising expectations. They have unveiled its glorious title track, ‘Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!’, an ecstatic and propulsive track, pulsing with energy and packed with the kind of intricate interplay that Horse Lords make sound effortless. The single arrives with a mesmerising accompanying video created by Dan Conrad, who explains:

“In the 70s, I built a visual performance instrument that displayed areas of colored light on a translucent screen and used manually controlled dimmers to change the colors. I named the instrument a ‘chromaccord’, meaning ‘colors together,’ and performed it live with musicians.”

When Horse Lords invited Conrad to create a visual accompaniment for their new album, he turned to an evolved LED version of the Chromaccord, developing a series of patterns and improvising colour changes in response to the movement of ‘Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!’. The performance was filmed by Will Schorre and edited into the final video, which you can watch below.

Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! is out this Friday, June 12th, through RVNG Intl.

Firas Zreik announces third album, Tarabesque, and shares lead single ‘Fields of Figs’

08 June 2026

Photo: Felicia Abban

Some records take a while to find you. Tarabesque did, but we have barely stopped listening since. The new full-length from Palestinian composer and kanunist Firas Zreik is the third release from Amir ElSaffar’s Maqām Records, and another stunning addition to the musical worlds the label is bringing into focus. Based in New York City, Zreik is a Palestinian composer, performer, lyricist and educator, widely recognised as one of the most compelling voices working with the kanun, a Mediterranean harp. He has spent years performing, recording and collaborating across the world, expanding perceptions of the instrument and preserving its identity while revealing its remarkable versatility across different musical settings and traditions. Zreik’s music draws on the improvisational spirit of the maqam tradition, treating it as a living and evolving language open to new possibilities. On Tarabesque, Zreik places the kanun at the centre of a jazz quartet, a hybrid ensemble and an Arab takht ensemble. The new album sees him creating a musical world where maqam-driven melodies move effortlessly through rich harmonic and modal landscapes. The result is an enthralling and beautiful piece of work, rooted in tradition but also open to new sounds and forms.

Coinciding with the album announcement, Zreik has shared the gorgeous and compelling ‘Fields of Figs’ as the first single. The track comes with an accompanying video and you can watch it below.

APNI shares reinterpretation of ‘Yaar Vehko’ feat. Matthewdavid and Stuart Bogie

06 June 2026

Photo: Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr.

APNI is the brainchild project of multimedia artist and composer Surabhi Saraf, bringing together her interests in voice, experimental sound, and composition. Rooted in her training in Hindustani classical music and informed by years of work across sound and performance, the project has become a space for immersive and carefully crafted listening experiences. She has unleashed a new single, ‘Yaar Vekho’, an ambient interpretation of the traditional Sufi song, combining layered vocals with electronics and clarinet. Featuring Matthewdavid on electronics and Stuart Bogie on clarinet, the track unfolds with patience and emotional depth. Speaking about her latest release, APNI shares:

“I enter this chapter with a reverent curiosity toward the Divine. This song carries a devotional longing, a reaching toward love beyond identity, almost like a blueprint for what might be possible. It feels like an offering from the oldest part of me to the part still brave enough to love.”

Gentle and soothing, ‘Yaar Vekho’ is a real transportative listen. Here it is.