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Melbourne-born, New York City-based saxophonist and composer Stephen Byth returns with Growth in Stasis, an emotionally expansive new album exploring the tensions that define contemporary life. Joined by a formidable New York quartet, Yessaï Karapetian (piano, synthesizers), Simón Willson (bass), and Angus Mason (drums), Byth presents music that balances lyrical beauty with searching intensity.
Melbourne trio HYPERBAROQ bring centuries-old music into direct dialogue with the present on Tripudiis Sonis Variis, a striking new album that reimagines works by Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Carissimi, Strozzi, Purcell and others through jazz improvisation, electronics and sound art. Led by Italian-Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer Mirko Guerrini, with vocalist Ilaria Crociani and guitarist Stephen Magnusson, HYPERBAROQ approaches baroque repertoire not as something to be preserved behind glass, but as living material.
For more than twenty-five years, Clocked Out - the acclaimed duo of Erik Griswold (prepared piano) and Vanessa Tomlinson (percussion) - have carved out a singular place in Australian experimental music.
TL;DR is one of the most distinctive groups to emerge from the Australian jazz scene in recent years. Their influences, including Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, Laurie Anderson and The Necks, are refracted into propulsive forms that are, in equal measure, accessible and surprising.
With a friendship that dates back to their high school years, Delay 45 perform with a rare cohesion and sensitivity. This album is a celebration of that shared history.
Experience an enchanting collaboration of Armenian folk, jazz, and contemporary sounds in Awakening - the luminous new album by Visions of Nar. Recorded at the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s stunning Pier 2/3 Studios, Awakening weaves transcendent beauty, dynamic interplay, and hypnotic rhythm into a spellbinding musical journey.
The Vampires celebrate 20 years together as one of Australia’s most distinctive and acclaimed ensembles with the release of their eighth studio album, Skydancer. The record sees the quartet reimagining their fundamentals - expanding their sound while remaining grounded in their signature of hypnotic grooves, intertwining horn lines, and melodic invention.
Sydney collective Microfiche mark a decade together with With Time, a bold third album and their debut on Earshift Music. Moving between acoustic intimacy and immersive electronics, the record captures a band refining its language while opening new sonic terrain.
Even Quiet Embers Carry Fire brings together guitarist Jess Green, saxophonist Sandy Evans, and drummer Dylan van der Schyff in a deeply attentive exploration through free improvisation that evokes experiences of space and nature, through shifting patterns of light, sound, and feeling.
Open Thread return with Waiting Music, a richly textured new album that documents the continuing evolution of this Australia–Canada collaboration. The ensemble unites four singular voices, who each bring deep roots in creative music, moving fluidly across genres and contexts, united by a shared ethos of listening, trust, and transformation.
Bengali-Australian ensemble, The Three Seas return with their most expansive and spiritually charged work to date. ‘Antaḥkaraṇa’ is a luminous meeting of Baul mysticism, Himalayan folk, rock and dub, recorded at Peter Gabriel’s legendary Real World Studios in the UK.
Recorded in a single day in December 2023, Redleaf is pin point-a space created here by each instrumental voice, each track of Redleaf is exquisite in its clarity of gesture, its own sonic terrain of mood and moment.
The Australian-Japanese trio Polyglot return with Before Words, a compelling new album that deepens their exploration of cross-cultural exchange. Recorded across two sessions at Tokyo’s Studio Dede in 2023 and 2024, Before Words captures the trio’s rare creative rapport and the breadth of their cultural and sonic research.
Wellington-based saxophonist and composer Jake Baxendale brings together a remarkable collective of Aotearoa’s leading jazz and contemporary musicians for Waypeople, a luminous new album inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s English-language version of the Tao Te Ching. Drawing from jazz, Chinese classical music and improvisation, the project fuses lyrical storytelling with meditative textures and powerful ensemble interplay.