This CD is here to make your summer better. It arrives in the form of a recording by three magnificent percussionists. Their sound is warm, soft, and yet fresh. It pumps and pulses like the heartbeat of the earth’s interior, and then, before you know it, here comes the one I've been waiting for: Hello, happiness!

I’ve wanted for a long time to introduce the music of Mazen Kerbaj. I had originally been thinking more of his solo work. Then I came across this recording, which immediately caught my attention with its title and its charming cover image.

Tizia Zimmermann and Chris Pitsiokos, Eleatic Records, September 2025. I feel as if something in me had been waiting for this CD. It had been sitting innocently enough on the pile of discs I still had to listen to, but even there it already felt a bit cheeky.

“Immutable Traveler” by Tangent Mek was released as a physical CD on March 6, 2026, on Ligne de crête / Carton Records, and had already been released digitally in June 2025 on Montagne Noire.

On March 27, Relative Pitch Records released Live Bahdu, a recording of the Dietrichs’ concert at the Ear We Are Festival in Biel 2025.

E il y aura… by Christine Abdelnour / Frantz Loriot / David Maier / Pascal Niggenkemper
 Released February 1, 2026 on Veto Records

In December 2025, the independent label Discordia Records released Behenii – Part II, the second album by the trio featuring Don Malfon on saxophone, Vasco Trilla on drums, and El Pricto on synthesizer.

Oneiric means “dreamlike” - a fitting title for the latest CD by the Berlin‑based trio Jane in Ether. The group, founded in 2019, consists of recorder player Miako Klein, pianist Magda Mayas, and violinist Biliana Voutchkova.