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'Lush with a gentle, brackish breeze' is how Jeremiah Chiu recalls the Åland Islands, an archipelago of around 6,500 skerries and islands which lie between Sweden and Finland at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea. After visiting the islands to help set up the Hotel Svala, which would host workshop programmes and artistic retreats,...

This week the multi-instrumentalist JJJJJerome Ellis frames speech dysfluency through personal reflections and watery etymologies, river running from the works of the sixteenth-century French poet Guillaume Bouchet and eighteenth-century abolitionist Olaudah Equiano to contemporary thinkers like Toni Morrison and Derek Walcott. Bill Charlap and the rhythm section of Peter and Kenny Washington give a modern swing to a standard...

On raven wings, the violinist Laura Cannell and cellist Kate Ellis are joined by the award-winning sound recordist Chris Watson as they swoop into autumn. Liz Harris is back as Grouper, spanning the breadth of her career with songs of coastal respite recorded in Mount Tamalpais, Portland, and Astoria. And Matthew Herbert finds a moment for introspection among the...