Producer Marta Salogni and a rotating cast of musicians joined Westerman at an 18th-century mansion on Hydra to record ‘A Jackal’s Wedding,’ an album where high ceilings and creative limitation were as vital as the songs themselves.

Three decades into their existence, Italy’s experimental metal/rock/jazz trio release ‘Ferrum Sidereum,’ a double-album that draws on meteoric iron symbolism, Tibetan philosophy, and the practice of creating inner silence amid external chaos.

The London pianist’s ‘Emotionally Suited To Be A Solo Pianist’ began as a three-hour improvisation that captured winter’s quieter truths about distance, solitude, and the strange calm that arrives when the world slows down.

‘They Shall Take Up Serpents’ marks Sublime Frequencies’ first American release, with Ian Brennan documenting a West Virginia church where drumming grandmas and flatpicking guitarists enter trance states that put decades of rock posturing to shame.

The vibraphonist’s ‘Of The Near And Far’ superimposes constellations over the circle of fifths to generate pitch collections for a ten-piece ensemble while signaling her background in orchestral percussion, alternative rock, and the chamber works of Glass and Xenakis.

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Vibraphonist Patricia Brennan discusses her constellation-based compositional system, blending jazz, classical, and alt-rock on Of The Near And Far.

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