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10/05/2026

Album of the Day: Andreas Tschopp - What If We Align Our Breath (Kit Records)

Find it here: https://theatticmag.com/news/2530/the-monthly-dig-_-march-2026.html

Pioneering Swiss trombonist and composer Andreas Tschopp marries contemporary jazz with South African horns and homemade ocarinas, creating a record quite unlike anything you've heard before. "What if We Align Our Breath" disregards the curvature of borders, genre, and time itself - tugging a thread through the history of wind instrumentation with ghostly agility.

06/05/2026

📡 The Sonic Turn Podcast, episode 8: Field Recordings (part 2)
🎙️ Guests: Maria Balabas, Manja Ristić

In this episode we’re diving into the complex, layered world of field recordings — not just as a technique, but as a way of thinking, listening, and relating to environments, people, and nonhuman agencies.

Today's guests are Maria Balabaș and Manja Ristić, two sound artists who have opened up rich perspectives on listening as a situated, ethical, and deeply embodied practice. Together, these perspectives reveal how field recording contains multiple layers and modes of approach: artistic, ethnographic, ecological, political.

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04/05/2026

Album of the Day: José Martínez - Short Stories ( New Focus Recordings)

From the Monthly Dig: https://theatticmag.com/news/2530/the-monthly-dig-_-march-2026.html

Composer José Martínez releases Short Stories, a collection of his compositions that integrate tradition, technology, and text to tell stories, both direct and surreal. Drawing on his Colombian heritage as well as influences from film and literature, Martínez brings inquisitiveness, curiosity, and thoughtfulness to the phenomenon he explores through music, shedding new light on sounds and ideas.

03/05/2026

Album of the Day: Lukas Ligeti - Notebook (New World Records)

Find it here: https://theatticmag.com/news/2530/the-monthly-dig-_-march-2026.html

Lukas Ligeti’s Notebook is several things: an album and an ensemble, but also a creative practice and an ongoing series of pieces, all situated in the liminal space “somewhere between composition and improvisation.” As a creative practice, Notebook is Ligeti’s evolving methodology for creating conditions in which structure and spontaneity blur and overlap, manifesting his musical voice while also giving players a great deal of expressive agency, as musicians who are willing and able to “think aloud.”

01/05/2026

Album of the Day: AL.Ehtifal Project - Live Sessions I | Bucharest 2024

Find it here: https://theatticmag.com/news/2530/the-monthly-dig-_-march-2026.html

The AL.Ehtifal Project is a musical ensemble that integrates spontaneous thoughts into performance moments, as a way of communication. It challenges the dominant musical landscape and established norms through authentic forms of artistic expression, born out of the need for experimentation. The project has a flexible body of musicians from Romania, Syria and Iran.

29/04/2026

Album of the Day: NAKE DE - Alla Sorrentina (Kythibong)

Find it here: https://theatticmag.com/news/2530/the-monthly-dig-_-march-2026.html

Snake De, a potential reference to Snake II, the snake game preinstalled on our mobile phones in the late 1990s, seals the musical meeting of Maxime Canelli and Aymeric Chaslerie. The former made his mark with Carton, an unstable, occasionally sung synth-pop project, while the latter—whose background leans more toward electricity, notably as guitarist for Room 204 and Papaye—is endowed with an insatiable musical curiosity, which he has been satisfying since 2002 by co-running the Kythibong label.

28/04/2026

Album of the Day: Maryam Saleh - Syrr سِرّ (Simsara Music سمسارة للموسيقى)

Featured in the Monthly Dig - March 2026: https://theatticmag.com/news/2530/the-monthly-dig-_-march-2026.html

A mythic and introspective work, Syrr (Arabic for “secret”) transforms memory, loss, and lived experience into a shifting world of sound, voice, and embodied emotion. Written and composed by Maryam Saleh, a luminary of Egypt’s alternative music scene, the album traces a journey in which the self is fractured, questioned, reassembled, and ultimately expanded. Blending raw lyrical expression with subtle dramatics, Saleh crafts an immersive sonic autobiography rooted in intuition, embodiment, and human becoming.

26/04/2026

Album of the Day: Ohkami No Jikan - Black Tape II (Black Editions Group)

Find it here: https://theatticmag.com/news/2530/the-monthly-dig-_-march-2026.html

Black Tape II is only the second widely available release by Ohkami No Jikan (The Time of the Wolf), one of the more esoteric groups of the 1990’s Tokyo underground. Recorded in 1992, it illuminates a largely undocumented facet of Nanjo Asahito’s psychedelic cosmology, distinct form his better known work with High Rise, Musica Transonic and Toho Sara.

24/04/2026

Album of the Day: V.A. - Land 03 (أرض ٠٣): A compilation for the displaced in Lebanon (Tunefork Studios)

*From the March issue of the Monthly Dig: https://theatticmag.com/news/2530/the-monthly-dig-_-march-2026.html

This is Volume 3 of the Land series, a compilation curated by Tunefork Studios & Beirut Synth Center, to help raise funds for those displaced by Israeli attacks on Lebanon in March 2026. Sales and contributions from this volume will be given to Beit Aam and other local grassroots initiatives in Beirut and the South.

22/04/2026

🏆 The Monthly Dig - March 2026🏆

Spring is here, so check out a selection of albums and compilations released in March. What's new, what's good, what's hot or not, what's obscure or under the radar, music wise, here's the Monthly Dig. If you think that we've missed something or want to send a tip, please get in touch.

cc: AL.Ehtifal Project, Kit Records, Digital Regress, International Anthem, New Focus Recordings, Tunefork Studios, Simsara Music سمسارة للموسيقى, Maryam Saleh, Black Editions Group, Discrepant, Infrequent Seams, EM Records エム・レコード

Here's an exquisite digest of albums and compilations released in March.