Genre-bending & spine-tingling music

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

  • Nala Sinephro: Space 1.8

    Nala Sinephro: Space 1.8

    There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres – Pythagoras Nala Sinephro is a young harpist, keyboard player and composer from Belgium now based in London. Composed and recorded between 2018 and 2019 and released on…

  • Galya Bisengalieva: Aralkum

    Galya Bisengalieva: Aralkum

    Born in Kazakhstan and based in London, Galya Bisengalieva is a classically-trained violinist, composer and electronic musician. As the current leader of the London Contemporary Orchestra, she has been involved in a series of high profile collaborations with musicians as diverse as Pauline Oliveros, Steve…

  • Otto A Totland: Companion

    Otto A Totland: Companion

    Otto Andreas Totland is a Norwegian self-taught pianist and electronic musician also performing under the Nest moniker or as half of the Deaf Center electronic duo with Erik K Skodvin. Released on the excellent Berlin-based boutique label Sonic Pieces on 26 November 2021 last as…

  • New Age Doom & Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Guide to the Universe

    New Age Doom & Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Guide to the Universe

    Opening to the crash of a gong whose cosmic vibrations metaphorically linger throughout the entire recording, Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Guide to the Universe has the allure of a religious ceremony, a shamanic ritual calling on the spirits of the other world, a Rastafarian sermon dispensed…

  • Théo Girard: Pensées Rotatives

    Théo Girard: Pensées Rotatives

    Théo Girard is a double bass player, composer and independent record label owner based in Paris who has been involved in a multitude of musical projects over the years – from the Gypsy/Jazz/Klezmer collective Bratsch co-founded by his father Bruno Girard in the mid-1970s to…

  • Eoghan Neff: unrecalled

    Eoghan Neff: unrecalled

    Eoghan Neff is a fiddler, researcher and lecturer based in Ennis who has already performed extensively on the international stage either as a solo artist, as the NeffBros duet with his brother and piper Flaithrí or as part of the Riverdance band. Informed by a…

  • In The Echo: Field Recordings from Earlsfort Terrace

    In The Echo: Field Recordings from Earlsfort Terrace

    A drummer (with Lisa Hannigan and Villagers), producer and electronic musician (with I Am The Cosmos and The Din), Ross Turner was also artist in residence at Dublin’s National Concert Hall between 2014 and 2016. During that time, the musician curated a series of collaborations…

  • Damon Locks – Black Monument Ensemble: Now

    Damon Locks – Black Monument Ensemble: Now

    Damon Locks is a Chicago-based activist, poet, teacher and visual artist whose work might already be familiar to many as it has featured as the cover artwork of dozens of records including several International Anthem releases. A long-time deejay and singer with various post punk…