Embark on a resplendent scenic fantasy adventure to seek self-importance and internal strength with this empowering anthem. Ever-fluctuating and colourful future neon winds and wisps are felt in an expansive floral world of new age reverie and dance trance energy. Let Isla Den help guide you with their emotional-fused melodic vocals and sense-elevating analog electronic textures. (BONUS: It is inspired by Navi from The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time video game!) Navi.6 (ID06) by Isla Den ..read more

As water fountains forth from a spring and the nightingale calls out in the stillness of dawn, tranquility is embodied in a rippling otherworldly charm in Toronto avant folk singer-songwriter Clara Engel’s “Mayfly Day”. Crystalline celestial tones ring and drift from the vivid psychedelic guitar riff that imprints this strophic folk song, decorating a minimalistic amorphous soundscape of sublime bowed glockenspiel, cello tremolo, and ambient guitar drones. Above these enchanting layers is Clara’s poetic thought-provoking lyrics, a novella of the ethereal strive for universal equilibrium betwee ..read more

Guelph-based Philipinx experimental kulintang player Luyos MC produces a meditative healing tranquility in her new instrumental work “Lake Agco Droplets”. Surely this is what it must feel like next to the hot steaming body of water in the Southern Philippines this work is based on: full of rich patient energy and beautiful augmented textures. Luyos MC plays her resonant kulintang gongs backed by tectonic electroacoustic layers of drums, guitar, bass, and ethereal subtle violin samples provided by Saskatoon experimental ambient violinist respecftulchild (敬兒). A calming complex soundscape refle ..read more

Get carried away with this lively electronic number from Graham Van Pelt. His soft, melodic voice provides a anchoring point in a rich swirl of rhythms and beats. From ‘Time Travel ..read more

When the lights fade and the passage of time has takes its toll, ‘Abandoned Planetarium’ becomes a requiem for lost wonders and a lament of modern structural and metaphysical dissolution. Clara Engel, minimalist holy blues and folk noir singer-songwriter based in Toronto, invites us to join them, reproducing the sights and sounds within and around in the deserted cosmic chamber through their simple existential poetic words. Laying down and gazing onward, the spirit of the planetarium resonates through Clara’s ambient cyclic progression on electric guitar affected with rich heavy reverbera ..read more

Devouring Saturn wears a mask of textural bipolarity. This Toronto technical progressive metal band has released their first official albums this year: a dichotomic EP duo, Of Light / Of Dark, that effectively demonstrates the band’s clear-quality prowess and raw-mighty power. ‘Equanimity’ from Of Light demonstrates their calm ambiance and passive musicianship with clean reverberated picking and strumming electric guitar and sustained warm bass guitar tones. Within this peaceful aural-atmosphere, you spot a short distorted wailing guitar solo emerge; a momentary shadow that hints at what is to ..read more