Hidden Treasures: Must-Listen Albums of 2024 – Q2

Handpicked essential albums for your collection.

1. Tomotsugu Nakamura – “For A Fleeting Moment” (IIKKI, Brittany, France)

electronic; experimental; ambient; avant-garde; electroacoustic

2. The Rhythm Method – “Pastorale” (New Focus Recordings, New York)

contemporary; classical; flute; soprano; string quartet

3. Bartosz Kruczyński – “Dreams & Whispers” (Earth Trax, Warsaw, Poland)

electronic; ambient; club; electronica; house music; new wave

4. Richard Barrett, Elisabeth Harnik, Milana Zarić – “GLINT” (scatterArchive, Glasgow, UK)

experimental; electroacoustic; free improvisation

5. EAR – Sakura Variations – “4 studies for modular synthesizer” | Dries Geusens (EAR, Netherlands)

ambient; drone; experimental; modular synthesizer

6. ContaQt + Evan Ziporyn + Friends – “Poppy 88” (people | places | records, Toronto, Ontario)

ambient; minimalism; postminimalism; chamber music; contemporary; classical; electroacoustic; experimental minimalism; postminimalism

7. Ana Dall’Ara-Majek – “Radiolaria” (empreintes DIGITALes, Montreal, Québec)

buchla 200; electroacoustic; experimental; musique concrète

8. Malasomma – “SR 025 ~ NEOLINGUA” (Stochastic Resonance, Roma, Italy)

electronic; ambient; contemporary; experimental; IDM; industrial; techno

9. Swamp Donkey – “Psychedelic Lifeline” (Harsh Reality Music, Memphis, Tennessee)

experimental; noise; fusion; abstract

10. DEEAT PALACE – “PIECES POUR SERGE” (ERRATUM MUSICAL, Paris, France)

experimental art; noise; poetry