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Spellbinding Music is an independent blog based in Ireland curating contemporary, modern classical, ambient, roots, electronic, jazz and folk music…and everything in between. Read More
Arooj Aftab: Night Reign
In the wake of two independent ambient experimental electronic projects (Bird under Water in 2015 and Siren Islands in 2018), Pakistani American singer-songwriter and composer Arooj Aftab emerged on the international stage in 2021 with the incredible Vulture Prince. The ambitious project embracing Hindustani classical…
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek: Dost 1 & 2
Over the last decade or so, Anatolian psychedelic rock has been enjoying a phenomenal revival both in Turkey with artists like Gaye Su Akyol and further afield. Spurred by members of the Turkish diaspora, London-based fusion duo Kit Sebastian, Satellites from Israel or the formidable…
Cinder Well: Cadence
Born in California and now sharing her time between her native homeland and County Clare in Ireland, Amelia Baker is a singer songwriter who started her career as a member of Santa Cruz-based folk-punk band Blackbird Raum. She launched her solo career in 2015 as…
Matthew Halsall: An Ever Changing View / Bright Sparkling Light
Proudly rooted in Northern England and the Manchester jazz scene, influenced by global and electronic music and constantly returning to the ecstatic masterpieces of the early 1970s Afro-American spiritual jazz for inspiration, Matthew Halsall continues to enchant with an impeccable series of releases on his…
ØXN: CYRM
Comprised of Radie Peat on vocals, keyboards and guitar, Katie Kim on vocals and piano, John “Spud” Murphy on vocals and bass and Eleanor Myler on vocals and drums, ØXN is the first new act in eighteen years to record for historical Irish traditional music…
Shana Cleveland: Manzanita
A Michigan native now based in rural Northern California, Shana Cleveland is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and visual artist. A founding member and lead vocalist of all-woman surf rock band La Luz with whom she has released five albums to date for the Seattle-based Hardly Art…
Laurel Halo: Atlas
Originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan and now based in Los Angeles, Laurel Halo is a DJ, pianist, composer and a regular host on NTS radio. Since her 2012 début “Quarantine”, the electronic artist has been releasing albums that resist classification and which are deliberately not…
Human Being Human: Disappearance
Led by double-bassist Torben Bjørnskov, whose teachers at the Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium of Copenhagen included legendary bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Human Being Human is a Danish jazz trio whose music is anchored in the “traditional” melodic Nordic jazz tradition while also leaning towards a more progressive…