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On the banks of Livorno, Italy, instrumental post-rock outfit Platonick Dive create beguiling and soaring music. It’s the type of music that can transport you skyward with its passionate and atmospheric expressions, but also keep you grounded with its corporeal impact. The groups fourth album “Take A Deep Breath” operatesContinue Reading

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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

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  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

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  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

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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

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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

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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

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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