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The vault might seem to connote a sense of authority, visions of round doors, time locks and bank currency or rows of booklets and stacks of boxes whose contents have been carefully packed away. Yet musically the prising open of a vault can prove a cacophonous and contentious affair. What should be scrapped or saved for posterity, who gets...

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...

Born in Oslo and splitting his childhood between there and Bali as he learned circular breathing through the resonances of the flute and didgeridoo, attending a music conservatory in Copenhagen before basing himself betwixt the heady nightclubs of Berlin, the saxophonist Bendik Giske spent ten years traversing the margins and peeling away the excesses of his instrument. Seeking a...