Named for the Finnish concept of resilience, ‘sisu’ documents Kodomo’s Chris Child working with vocalists for the first time, chasing analog serendipity, and making a deliberate case for the album as a form still worth defending.

A fixture in London’s jazz and electronic scenes, Momoko Gill discusses her debut album ‘Momoko’, her years of collaborative work alongside Matthew Herbert and others, and the music she makes as the only home she’s found.

The German production duo discusses their resistance to the music industry’s rat race, the shift to collaborative live-band recording with trusted friends, and why protecting the raw joy of music-making matters more than chasing metrics.

The five-time Grammy winner discusses the daily tension between preservation and intervention, his analog-first approach to archival audio, and what his restoration of unreleased Stax songwriter demos revealed about the ethics of serving the archive.

Holly Tavel, Sarah Morrison, and Beatriz Ramirez-Belt discuss ‘cloud, castle, lake’, their improvisational rehearsal process, and why music that creates a scene beats music that creates a feeling.

Composer and harpist Zeena Parkins discusses her electric harp, new record Lament for the Maker, composing for dance, and the closing of Mills College.

Grammy-winning engineer Michael Graves on restoring Stax demos, Blondie masters, and the ethics of bringing lost recordings back to life.

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Erik Hall discusses Solo Three, his trilogy-closing reinterpretation of works by Reich, Branca, Palestine, and Spiegel.

Saxophonist Patrick Smith talks his new trio record Words Underlined, the Sellers & Newell bookstore label, mentorship, and making creative music in Toronto.

Sound artist Stephen Vitiello discusses his album Trinity with Lawrence English, ethical collaboration, World Trade Center recordings, and punk’s DIY influence.