Vigilia

“Deep Space” by French pianist Victor Bouzard is a contemplative and spacious felt-piano piece that invites the listener into a quiet, immersive universe. Its slow, deliberate phrasing and deep tonal warmth evoke a sense of vastness and inner stillness. 
A thoughtful, atmospheric work that highlights Bouzard’s refined musical sensitivity. Released by the reflective neoclassical piano label ad21.

Deep Space

Buy the album: https://dougthomas.bandcamp.com/album/fluxus-096-2025

Andy Findon // Wind instruments

All tracks composed and arranged by Doug Thomas and Andy Findon

Produced, engineered and mixed by Doug Thomas
Recorded, mixed and mastered at NOOX Studio, London

Artwork by Doug Thomas

www.dougthomas.co.uk

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谢谢 / Thank You / Gracias / धन्यवाद / ﺷﻜﺮﺍﹰ / ধন্যবাদ / Спасибо / Obrigado / ありがとう / Danke / Merci

04 John

Following his debut Dolere (2024) and a collaboration with Joachim Spieth and Markus Guentner on Arcadia (2025), zakè returns to Joachim's Affin imprint with an intensely captivating work that explores the resonance of low frequencies and subsonic vibrations. There are only three pieces on this 55-minute release (the first track runs for over 28 minutes!), and you get to preview one of them before the album is out. This is music shaped for your deep, immersive, and glacial listening sessions. Good headphones and a subwoofer (yes, at the same time) are recommended. Perfect for my slowly-waking, frazzled mind this morning!

"Low Harmonics builds upon the reflective world first introduced by Zach on Dolere, which explored how time stretches during periods of sorrow and how sound can create a brief shelter from that weight. The predecessor fluctuated between ache and relief, and now its follow-up dives further into the inward, existential space beneath those emotions. Here, the use of deep and subterranean tones feels both intimate and vast, pulling you deeper into the lower spectrum of sound, shaped by heavy bass ebbs, low-frequency flow, and slow-moving drift. This album echoes the textural gravity of artists like Thomas Köner and the cold Arctic brush of Geir Jenssen, while remaining rooted in Affin’s commitment to sound that lives outside the expected."

HEADPHONE COMMUNITY EXCLUSIVE: zakè - Low Harmonics, Part 3

Everything has always been here; perhaps it was only arranged differently.
Nothing has ever been lost, as in the moment it happened, it eternally shaped us.
"Otto Vite" (Eight Lives) delves into the mysterious permanence of love in the never-ending current of life. The Album seals frames of one's life story, in a mosaic built on metaphors, behaviours, memories, people, and gestures. The Record is structured in a way that each track films a discrete segment of life: describing an object, a person, or a feeling, and at the same time deepening a different connotation on the meaning of love, while remarking its foundation as the only permanent sublayer of an ever-changing world. The objective is to focus on the moment and its details, to understand that love is always before our eyes. And the rule is to mix things up, with the intention of putting them back together, in a configuration that makes us understand that we have always been. "Otto Vite" is an Album that, in some way, tributes the people who made me feel something, some kind of hope, a feeling of understanding, soft vibrations, those rare breathing moments in which our feet are grounded to earth, and we feel we are where we are meant to be.

Ci Incontreremo Questo Autunno

Darkness Isn’t a Place

sketch in life

“Deep Space” by French pianist Victor Bouzard is a contemplative and spacious felt-piano piece that invites the listener into a quiet, immersive universe. Its slow, deliberate phrasing and deep tonal warmth evoke a sense of vastness and inner stillness. A thoughtful, atmospheric work that highlights Bouzard’s refined musical sensitivity. Released by the reflective neoclassical piano label ad21.

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Pianist Ara_piano unveils Hojas Mojadas, the second preview from her upcoming EP Petricor. The piece carries a subtle melancholy wrapped in calm and heartfelt expression. Its warm felt piano tone creates an atmosphere of intimacy and tenderness. A moving composition that resonates with quiet beauty and emotional depth. Released by the reflective neoclassical label ad21.

Hojas Mojadas

You don’t have to read the press release for Rafael Anton Irisarri‘s latest opus, Points of Inaccessibility, to know all of its conveyed emotion. It’s already all there. That is the power of music when it’s delivered through the heart and mind by an amazing artist. Sure, there is an interesting background behind this work [and one which you can read on Bandcamp anyway], but for me, it doesn’t matter. When I listened to this album for the first time, I was immediately overwhelmed with its immersive poignant arc, and then I listened to it again, and again, and again… until the four pieces became not just the sounds for the story to be discovered later through these words, but they became the sounds for the story of my own, the one where words are not enough, the one that only speaks in music. This music touches something deeply personal, and then these words come out in abstract. But when you read them, you will know at least one thing: they have been written by a human. They have been triggered by a human. And when two humans speak without words, there is a true and genuine connection. One, which we can’t replace with a digital domain. And as we sink a little deeper every day into a world of artificial emotion, remember that you can return to music. Remember that this music is the key.


Points of Inaccessibility came from thinking about how disconnection feels in an age obsessed with connection. We are constantly online, constantly visible, yet we drift further apart. The real distance isn’t geographic anymore, it’s emotional. We mistake connectivity for community. The more we share, the less we seem to feel. This album is about that strange loneliness that hides inside constant communication, a loneliness that hums quietly beneath the surface of everything. The record isn’t nostalgic. It’s about the way the present is haunted by all the futures that never arrived. We live inside systems that promise connection but deliver repetition. Everything loops, nothing resolves.

— Rafael Anton Irisarri


The album is scheduled to be released on February 6th, 2026, via Irisarri’s own Black Knoll Editions. Preorder the beautifully mastered limited edition 12″ by Stephan Mathieu at his Schwebung Mastering, with a bleak yet stunning cover art by Jaco Schilp. Once again, you can grab the digital and vinyl versions directly from Irisarri’s Bandcamp. Don’t sleep on this one.

https://irisarri.bandcamp.com/album/points-of-inaccessibility

Points of Inaccessibility

Breaking the Unison

TRACK PREMIERE : Rafael Anton Irisarri - Breaking the Unison

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