Masayoshi Fujita to release new album, Forest of Tranquility, next month

19 October 2026

Photo: Ryo Noda

We’re thrilled to hear that Japanese vibraphonist, multi-percussionist, and composer Masayoshi Fujita has a new album on the way. A longtime favourite of ours, he has an extraordinary ability to conjure vivid landscapes and otherworldly atmospheres through sound. Following 2024’s Migratory, Fujita is now ready to share a new full-length album, Forest of Tranquility, out on November 13th through Erased Tapes. Originally composed as the soundtrack for Expo 2025’s vast living nature installation in Osaka, the album finds Fujita exploring the relationship between music and the natural world. Conceived as a peaceful sanctuary where visitors could escape the noise of everyday life and reconnect with their surroundings, Forest of Tranquility features seven long-form pieces that unfold like the changing rhythms of a day in the forest. Fujita explains:

“They had a biorhythm – in the morning you start a little bit slowly and with a little bit more space, and then around noon you get a little bit more active. Then in the afternoon you get more settled and calm, and around 6 o’clock you are more active, before revisiting calm.”

Having moved from Berlin to rural Japan in 2020, Fujita has found a close connection with nature, and that sense of wonder runs throughout the upcoming record. His marimba, vibraphone, and percussion are interwoven with field recordings of birds and frogs, atmospheric drones, and the sounds of Armenian duduk, played by Hayk Karoyi, and Japanese shō, played by Mattias Hållsten. The album’s underlying inspiration reaches beyond the forest itself. “I had this image of nature being a portal to the universe,” says Fujita. “The idea I have lately about nature is that it makes us aware of the universe that exists beyond it.”

Fujita has already shared two wonderful pieces from the album, the immersive opener ‘Portal to the Universe’ and the velvety and gentle title track. ‘Portal to the Universe’ was conceived as the final piece of the day, evoking a dark night. “I had the image of a very dark night sky in my head for that one… It feels like you are slowly drifting in the vast universe and the sea of memory”, remarks Fujita.The title track evokes the first light of day and the quiet awakening of the forest. As Fujita puts it, “This song was the opener of the day. The feeling of birth, a soft beginning of a day in the forest.”

Listen to both singles below.


Watch the video for Arandel’s new single ‘L’Heure du Loup’; new album Cosmogonies du Silence out in January

19 October 2026

French composer and producer Arandel has announced the release of his sixth album, Cosmogonies du Silence. The new record follows the two volumes of InBach, released in 2020 and 2021, in which he reworked the music of J.S. Bach using historical instruments from the Musée de la Musique in Paris. Six years later, he returns to his own compositions with a new album drawing on a decade of work, memory, absence, and mourning. Across ten pieces, Baroque motifs surface among spectral choirs, analogue electronics, and beats drawing on drill, R&B, chiptune, and lo-fi house. Arandel also takes inspiration from the experimental sound work of BBC Radiophonic Workshop pioneers Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, and John Baker, using manipulated recordings, altered voices, and fragments of melody to explore sound as a way of preserving traces of what has disappeared. To bring Cosmogonies du Silence to life, Arandel has also enlisted the help of Louis Delorme (Air, Sébastien Tellier), Ben Shemie (Suuns), Meryem Aboulouafa, Douglas Dare, and Félix Maritaud.

We’ll have to wait until January 22nd for the album to be out through InFiné, but we can already get a tantalizing taste of what’s coming with the first single, ‘L’Heure du Loup’. Named after the darkest hours before dawn, the track moved between sleep and waking, day and night, and this duality is reflected in the 2D animated video that accompanies it. Marina Dard directs. Watch it below.

Anna Butterss, John Raymond & Ben Lumsdaine share second single, ‘Parallax’, from upcoming LP Beginningless

19 October 2026

Photo: Robbie Jeffers

We’re less than a month away from the release Beginningless, the forthcoming album from Anna Butterss, John Raymond, and Ben Lumsdaine. Their first album as a trio, Beginningless is the the fruit of years of friendship and musical exchange, and was recorded live over two days in a Los Angeles studio, with very little overdubbing or post-production. Following the hazy, enveloping and gripping title track, Butterss, Raymond and Lumsdaine have shared a sublime new cut from the album, ‘Parallax’. Speaking about the new track, Raymond says:

“Over the course of the two days we were together in the studio, I think we tracked over 400 minutes of music. Everything was improvised, but at times the energy felt so good that these spontaneous moments turned into something like a song…a melody appeared, we intuitively heard a form together, and there was this almost telepathic connection as we created an arc and developed it together. “Parallax” was one of those moments for me. Anna and Ben throw down in the most beautiful of ways throughout the song, and it felt like we found something in this one.”

Listen to ‘Parallax’ below and grab the album when it drops on November 13th though Northern Spy.

Aksak Maboul share brand new single ‘Montagne’

12 October 2026

Photo: Philippe Cornet

There’s exciting news from legendary experimental pop group Aksak Maboul, who have a new album on the way. It’s due in early 2027 through CrammedLab, and follows 2023’s Une aventure de VV (Songspiel) and 2020’s Figures, which ended a 40-year recording hiatus. With a greater emphasis on instrumental and abstract excursions, the upcoming album finds founder Marc Hollander returning to the sound of Figures. Written and arranged by Hollander, the upcoming album brings together an impressive cast of collaborators, including guitarist Fred Frith, drummer-in-demand Tom Skinner, Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier, members of Tuxedomoon and Aquaserge, and Nihiloxica’s Spooky-J, alongside Aksak Maboul regulars Lucien Fraipont and Faustine Hollander. Across fifteen tracks and three interludes, the music ranges from electronica, pop and jazz to sound collage, krautrock, ambient and contemporary classical.

The album also has a special and poignant significance as the last to feature Véronique Vincent’s poetry and unique vocals, which have been an integral part of the group’s work in recent years. Vincent, Hollander’s longtime creative partner, completed her writing and recording for the album in the summer of 2025, shortly before her death in October that year.

Aksak Maboul are offering a dazzling glimpse of what’s to come with ‘Montagne’, written and performed by Hollander and Vincent. Inspired by an alphorn melody, Vincent’s lyrics use the image of a mountain being climbed, conquered and eventually reduced to dust as a metaphor for masculine domination. As Hollander explains in the album’s liner notes, the lyrics leave room for two opposing interpretations:

“This alphorn melody made me think of a majestic mountain landscape. Véronique’s imagination was fired by this idea, she wrote a text, originally subtitled “Lettre à un salopard” (“Letter to a Bastard”), in which a mountain is climbed, conquered, and finally reduced to a pile of dust. She said the story was a metaphor for masculine domination (somewhat like Le Mur, in our previous album). It now occurs to me that the lyrics can work in more than one way: does the mountain represent an oppressive man, eventually defeated by a woman? Or is this the tale of a woman being ruthlessly annihilated by a man? Maybe Véronique had both interpretations in mind, but we can’t ask her.”

‘Montagne’ comes with an accompanying video directed by Yoann Stehr & Izia Pinkman, and you can watch it below.

Pevin Kinel teases upcoming album, The Match Factory Strike, with lead single ‘Mirrors’

09 October 2026

We’ve been following Pevin Kinel’s musical adventures for a long time, and few artists have kept us as consistently intrigued as this immensely talented multi-instrumentalist and one-man-orchestra. One of those rare musicians who never seems to run out of ideas or lose his appetite for doing things his own way, Pevin has never shied away from exploring different sounds and musical territories. Now the Normandy-born, Porto-based musician is gearing up to release a new full-length album titled The Match Factory Strike. This time, when he started writing and recording back in January, he set out to look beyond his own personal experiences and say something about the world around him. As he puts it:

“I made the conscious decision to talk about bigger issues than my own personal experience because I was a bit fed up with the superficiality of modern pop music. I mean, whilst the world is in turn burning then drowning, whilst we’re witnessing an arms-race and at the same time seeing live the effect those weapons have on people just like us, it feels really unsettling that popular music still bangs on about broken hearts, the woes of unrequited love and whether or not I could get your telephone number. I kept asking myself “If I have a voice, I also have a responsibility, what message do I want to share? What urgently needs to be said right now?”

The Match Factory Strike is expected to arrive in about a month, once the mixing is finished. Ahead of it, Pevin has shared the first gripping and magnetic single off it, ‘Mirrors’. The track turned out to be one of the songs that didn’t quite fit the brief, with Pevin admitting that the lyrics reflect his own feelings. He comments:

““Mirrors”, like a couple of others on the album, fell through the net. The words are just about my own feelings really. So here you go.”

As with all eighteen tracks on the upcoming album, on ‘Mirrors’ Pevin plays all the instruments himself, continuing his long-standing tradition of writing, recording and producing music entirely on his own. The single comes with a self-directed video and you can watch it below.

Caixa Cubo share first glimpse of upcoming new album Ultracooked

08 October 2026

Brazilian trio Caixa Cubo are back with a brand new full-length album. Entitled Ultracooked, the record finds Henrique Gomide (keys), João Fideles (drums) and Noa Stroeter (bass) delving further into the Brazilian music traditions that have long informed their work, with their electric jazz-funk sound front and centre. The album pays homage to a number of the trio’s musical heroes and teachers, including Azymuth, Antonio Adolfo, Cesar Camargo Mariano and Marcos Resende. Produced by Caixa Cubo alongside Frederico Pacheco, Ultracooked was recorded and mixed at O&O Studios in São Paulo, with mastering by Casper Sutton at Gearbox Studios in London.

Ultracooked arrives on November 20th through Far Out Recordings, and ahead of it Caixa Cubo have unveiled the first single, ‘Expresso 2222’, a bold and endlessly catchy take on Gilberto Gil’s 1972 classic. The track features Zé Leonidas on vocals and Ed Woisk on guitar and you can listen to it below.