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How to See Know and Fall drop third single off upcoming debut album Ecologies

28 March 2026

Photo: Angela Washko

How to See Know and Fall is the new project of Jesse Stiles and Brian Shankar Adler, and it feels like a perfect musical pairing. Adler’s background in percussion and composition and Stiles’ work in electronic music and sound design complete each other, each bringing out something stronger in the other. They have a debut album on the way, Ecologies, releasing on April 3rd through Adhyâropa Records. Originally created as a remote collaboration during lockdown and later expanded through live performances, Ecologies moves freely between rhythm-driven sections, melodic fragments, and more abstract passages, with a strong focus on texture and the interaction between acoustic and electronic sound. Across nine instrumental tracks, the interplay between acoustic percussion and electronics stays at the centre throughout, shifting in intensity and shape from track to track.

Preceding the album’s release next week, How to See Know and Fall have recently shared the bewitching third single, ‘Rynchops albicollis’. Novelist, poet, and friend of the band Jesse Ball titled all the tracks on Ecologies and wrote an accompanying manifesto, featuring a section dedicated to each song. About ‘Rynchops albicollis’, he wrote:

“Refuse the hegemony of pitch. When that goes, all manner of sound can be heard.”

‘Rynchops albicollis’ comes paired with a video and you can watch it below.

Brian Shankar Adler’s seventh album, Fourth Dimension, out now

09 December 2019

Fourth Dimension, the seventh album from extraordinary percussionist/composer Brian Shankar Adler, hit shelves last week and we may be a little late picking this up but we were clearly missing out. Featuring eleven magnificent compositions immensely multifaceted, drawing from an array of genres, from jazz and rock to psychedelia and experimental music, Fourth Dimension is inspired and informed by Adler’s spiritual upbringing in an ashram. “I remember we would spend one month each year in silence. It was quite profound, because we started hearing the world in another way.” said Adler, adding: “After looking into the mind’s eye and becoming comfortable with what is brewing from within, the outside world appeared to be a reflection of that source.”

A storm of sound, Fourth Dimension is a sublime, bewitching and adventurous record that will leave no one untouched. For a tantalizing taster from it, here’s the two singles that preceded its release, ‘Gowanus’ and ‘Mantra’. The latter is offered with an accompanying video animated by Tenis Studio.


Fourth Dimension is out now through Chant Records