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After graduating with a degree in musicology in 2014 and self-releasing the acclaimed albums Njoum and Arb'een (40), dialogues between vocals and oud which explored loops in time and modes of narrative storytelling, the Lebanese composer Youmna Saba left Beirut and settled in Paris, where her research project Taïma' led to a slew of collaborations and the first sound...

Sometimes a wind blows and nothing rises. No plastic bags which remain wantonly discarded on the sidewalk filled with rainwater and city sediment, no helium mysteries or daydream fantasies or premonitions of love. On his third album the South London artist JQ finds frolic instead in a seam of cultural detritus, from overheard conversations to YouTube makeup tutorials, advertisements...

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...