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Skúli Sverrisson with Bill Frisell - For All Your Flowers cover artwork. A painting of a mountain top with gray rocks and yellow-green ground cover. Two tiny humnoid figures stand on top.

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Bill Frisell and Skúli Sverrisson Reunite for Duo Album ‘For All Your Flowers’

Skúli Sverrisson with Bill Frisell – For All Your Flowers (Newvelle Records, 2026) For All Your Flowers (NV040), the latest entry in its Newvelle Ten…

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Onségen Ensemble – A Tale

Professor Mark August 5, 2026 No Comments Jarmo Väärä Mikko Vuorela

“A Tale,” the fifth, and latest album from the Finnish collective Onségen Ensemble was released on Karisma Records, on June 26th of this year. …

Bluetech - Petite Constellation cover artwork. A close-up microscopic image of a plant stem cross-section, rendered in vivid blue, teal, purple, and white.

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Bluetech’s Inventive electronic Sound Design on Behind the Sky

Stefan Bruno August 4, 2026 No Comments ambient Arturia PolyBrute 12 BBC Radiophonic Workshop Bitwig Studio Bluetech Buchla Music Easel electronic music Erica Synths Syntrx II Evan Bartholomew GForce M-Tron Pro (MAP)GForce TVS Pro GS Music e7 Korg ARP Odyssey Meris Mercury X Pulsar Audio Plugins Softube Model Series Softube Modular Softube Plugins Spitfire Audio TipTop Buchla 200t Series Modular UAD Plugins VCV Rack

Bluetech – Petite Constellations (DiN/Behind the Sky, 2026) Electronic music composer Evan Bartholomew, who records as Bluetech, has released a 13-track album titled Petite Constellations.…

Brass Camel - Brass Camel cover artwork. A gold and blak cover with a camel in the middle.

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Brass Camel Deliver a Mouthwatering Cocktail of Prog and Classic Rock

Aiden Robinson August 2, 2026 No Comments Aubrey Ellefson blues-rock Brass Camel Cat Madden classic rock Curtis Arsenault Daniel Sveinson Dylan Lammie Progressive rock Wyatt Gilson

Brass Camel – Brass Camel (self-release, 2026) Vancouver-based progressive rock band Brass Camel put together a mouth watering cocktail of sounds of ins their third…

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Onségen Ensemble Weaves an Enigmatic Nordic Tale

Angel Romero July 25, 2026 No Comments Esa Juujärvi Finnish music Heikki Hallanoro Jarmo Väärä Joni Mäkelä Merja Järvelin Mikko Vuorela Onségen Ensemble Progressive rock psychedelic rock Samuli Lindberg Tuuli Jartti Vilma Pesola

Onségen Ensemble – A Tale (Karisma Records, 2026) Onségen Ensemble is a northern Finnish group that began as a trio and gradually expanded into a…

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Anthony Garone Returns With OK, but why?, First Album in Nearly Two Decades

Kevin Baker July 24, 2026 No Comments Anthony Garone Progressive rock

Anthony Garone – OK, but why? (Moonjune Records, 2026) Anthony Garone, founder of the progressive music platform Make Weird Music, has released his first full-length…

Sex Magick Wizards Suola ja Noaidi cover artwork. A high-contrast cover featuresn inverted-color landscape in reds, blacks, and whites beneath a dark crimson sky. At the center, a mirrored white form resembling feathers, bones, or ritual totems stands against a barren marsh with leafless trees. A black banner across the top displays the artist name "SEX MAGICK WIZARDS" and the album title "SUOLA JA NOAIDI" in bold white capital letters.

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Sex Magick Wizards Explore Sámi History on Suola ja Noaidi

Charlie Melville July 23, 2026 No Comments contemporary jazz improvisation joik Norwegian music psychedelic rock Sex Magick Wizards world music

Sex Magick Wizards – Suola ja Noaidi (Is it Jazz? Records, 2026) The intersection of indigenous tradition and creative music in Scandinavia has produced a…

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Eye of Melian – Forest of Forgetting

Professor Mark July 19, 2026 No Comments Eye of Melian – Forest of Forgetting J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Silmarillion Johanna Kurkela Martijn Westerholt Mikko P. Mustonen Patty Gurdy Robin La Joy Troy Donockley

One of the best albums of 2026 will no doubt be Eye of Melian’s “Forest of Forgetting.” It was released way back on February 20th,…

Volker Lankow - Thermal Drift cover artwork. A photo of a city street with a very bright sun in the middle.

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Volker Lankow Channels Extreme Heat on Thermal Drift

Stefan Bruno July 18, 2026 No Comments ambient electronic music Volker Lankow

Volker Lankow – Thermal Drift (self-release, 2026) Volker Lankow finds beauty in stillness on Thermal Drift. Lankow recorded Thermal Drift during the hottest period of…

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Karmamoi – Eternal Mistake

Professor Mark July 15, 2026 No Comments Adam Holzman Alex Massari Daniele Giovannoni Gabriele Giovannoni Italy Kamamoi – Eternal Mistake Karmamoi Progressive rock Randy McStine Susanna Brigatti:Valerio Sgargi

Eternal Mistake is the seventh studio album by the Italian progressive rock band Karmamoi (often misspelled as Kamamoi); officially released on April 17, 2026. It…