For the past decade, US musician Helen Yee has been honing her craft. By live looping her violin with various other instruments and electronics, she creates otherworldly and delicately balanced compositions, collected carefully on her debut album, Orchestrope. While Yee ostensibly put much effort into the composition and production ofContinue Reading
Studies have shown that rock music affects psychological tension, albeit not always for the better, with one study showing it can increase hostility, sadness, tension, and fatigue. That study didn’t use Mind Party by Myopia in its trials. This new album from the English upstarts utilises rock music’s oscillatingContinue Reading
English electronic musician LateNightBeatFeast may not boast the most urbane stagename, but his music is cleverly assembled and sophisticatedly produced. The elusive artist doesn’t share biographical information like their real name, gender, age, or musical history online, so there’s no way of knowing who is behind this energetic sonicContinue Reading
Jonsjooel. Photo by Jonne Heinonen Berlin-based Finnish artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jonsjooel has shared his latest track “Somewhere Else Than Here”, a dreamy and soulful exploration of modern classical and contemporary alternative, from his upcoming EP, Voices of A First Day. No Transmission caught up with Jonsooel to find out moreContinue Reading
Avant-garde trumpeter Nathan Plante has thrown caution to the wind; after 20 years of performing as a classical musician, he releases his first EP as a purveyor of darkly subduing ambient explorations, Electric Birds. The Californian started at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and continued his academic training atContinue Reading
Photo by Ivan Mani Kurt Leege – A Cephalopod Rebellion ambient Guitarist Kurt Leege has a storied past. From studying jazz at Swarthmore, populating New York’s thriving indie scene in the bands Curdlefur and Noxes Pond, to starting a family and relocating to the island of Ireland, we find himContinue Reading
The line straddling accessibility and innovation is hard to draw, perhaps no place more so than in art. Artists risk either alienating their audience or insulting their intelligence, with little breathing room between the two extremes. And while combining frantic jazz piano, wizardly electronics, and effervescent drumming in an avant-gardeContinue Reading
Photo by Sasha Matveeva Antoine Loemba – Montparnasse jazz Montparnasse is a neighborhood in Paris known for its rich cultural history. It is also the title of the first track from French jazz drummer Antoine Loemba’s upcoming EP, Quartet. Like that area of the City of Lights, “Montparnasse” has anContinue Reading
NY-based artist John Beckmann is having a purple patch. Since 2022, his work as Mortal Prophets has yielded three EPs, numerous singles, and five albums. The latest album, ICNCLST/, is billed as an EP, but with seven tracks, it also meets the criteria for an album by some metrics. ThoughContinue Reading
Stefen Robinson, aka Yea Big, discusses his improvisational work with Tatsu Aoki. The pair’s 2nd EP, The Hand and The Moon, Part Two, is out now on FPE Records. NT: Hello, Stefen. Thank you for agreeing to this interview. Congratulations on your recent EP with Tatsu Aoki, The Hand andContinue Reading