Sonic Cinema 33- Music videos from Noah Rott, Laura Wolf, and Mounika.

The music video for “Lay My Shield Aside" from German composer Noah Rott is a captivating piece that showcases the amazing talent of young jazz musicians from New York. With a blend of modern jazz and electronic sounds, the music blurs boundaries and puts creativity and innovation at the forefront. Filmed in an industrial space in Brooklyn, New York, the video takes the listener on a journey between scenes featuring the band performing, and those showing the musicians simply being in that space. Featuring clever edits and unobtrusive cuts, director Margot Bennett encapsulates the sound within a natural and organic visual narrative while cinematographer Omer Berger frames the group artistically. Noah Rott's outstanding skills as a jazz pianist and composer are on full display, making it an unforgettable listening experience of billowing synths amidst acoustic touches. An essential listen for fans of well-recorded contemporary electronic jazz that strikes the perfect balance between technical chops and natural flow.

Laura Wolf's new single "Calligraphy and Calculations" is a stunning example of her signature off-kilter chamber-pop style. The track features a unique blend of cello, clarinet, and vocal samples over a beat-driven world, creating a playful and intimate atmosphere. Laura's vocals are ethereal and float over the intricate instrumentation, adding to the dreamlike quality of the song. The use of the clarinet sample and the inspiration drawn from the Wikipedia page of Kane Tanaka is a testament to Laura's creative process and the unique sources she draws inspiration from. "Calligraphy and Calculations" is a beautiful and captivating piece of music.

Mounika.'s new single "Nomadics" is a dreamy and ethereal piece that transports listeners to an introspective state reflecting on the concepts of identity and self. The track's slow and mellow beat is accompanied by vocal samples from the children of the state orphanage in Ulaanbaatar and gentle samples collected from stringed instruments on the Mongolia Expedisound" sound library @ I.O.T Records. The music video, directed by Julien Phillips, beautifully captures the song's nomadic message, exploring moments of self-reflection, struggle, isolation and connection. "Nomadics" is a beautiful and moving piece of music that showcases Mounika.'s talent for creating emotive and immersive soundscapes that resonate deeply with both the heart and the mind.

Sonic Cinema 29- Music videos from Elsakvon, Alexandra Stréliski, and Foam and Sand

Elskavon is Minneapolis based artist Christ Bartels, and he is set to release his next album Origins next month. The album is a collection of electronic pop sounds and ambient music created from his previous excisions into the genres. Through an innovative approach to production, he has created the single “Blossom and the Void” which epitomizes the merging of the genres. Accompanying the single is a video that plays with light, color, and form, ultimately featuring a solo diver jumping off a boat at sea into the mysteries of the ocean’s unknown.

Alexandra Stréliski has announced her latest upcoming album Néo-Romance set to release at the end of March. The Montreal-based pianist will feature her minimalist approach to modern classical music while delivering an emotionally striking experience that looks to move its viewers to feel all that life has to offer. The most emotional track on the album is “Élégie,” which features a violin and is intended to serve as a final farewell to someone you love, indulging in feelings of vulnerability. The accompanying video features a close-up study on a woman’s face, allowing the viewer to an intimate sense of the subject.

Electronic artist Robert Koch is Foam and Sand, and he has announced his upcoming album by the same name set to debut in March. As an accomplished ambient electronic musician, this new album represents a fresh path for an artist who has become known for his ambient textures, emotional tones, and precise craft. With this new record, the artist further proves his mastery by showing something new to the world of ambient music and it promises to make an impact.

Sonic Cinema 21- Music videos from Ebi Soda, Deru and LDN Monos

‘Pseudocreme’ is a track selected from Ebi Soda’s new album Honk if You’re Sad. The musical compilation is a result of ten-hour jam sessions influenced by an archive of internet music culture and the UK jazz scene. Collaborating with trumpet player, Yazz Ahmed, the artist’s second album is noteworthy for its exceptional sense of experimentation and technical acumen. The accompanying video gives a voyeuristic feel as viewers watch the artists and a prawn-headed figure through a blurred, color-adjusted lens.

This track is the first single to be released from the artist’s album We Will Live On. Created with a Disklavier acoustic piano that has software allowing it to play itself with digital controls, the song and video alike make a commentary about humanity, technology, and the climate crisis we are living through. The debris and trash shown in the poetic video ask questions about loneliness, hope, and the current state of the world. The track itself follows a geometry-based pattern in its composition, making it different from most western music and producing a unique sense of order and structure.

This is the latest single from producer and multi-instrumentalist LDN Monos, a pseudonym for Curtis Neil. The track features an atmospheric sound, vocals sung in a Chinese dialect, and a sampling on instruments from around the world. The track explores the relationship between light and dark and the infinite cycle of life and rebirth. Depicted through the movements of synchronized swimmers above and below the water, the music traces physicality, water, belonging, and form as the swimmers form a natural beauty in their teamwork and anonymity.

Sonic Cinema 11- Music videos from Finnoh, Superpoze and GoGo Penguin

Formerly known as III Chill, artist Finnoh has released his debut album Focus as he starts a new chapter in his musical career. Working across electronic, hip-hop, and experimental sounds, his lyrics follow a stream of consciousness as he describes life as a global citizen amid a world in global crisis. His accompanying video for single “Opaque” depicts the duality of this experience as he stands duplicated numerous times within the building, representing a multitude. Delivering a genuine and honest vocal performance, his chilling words, and the isolation of the visual scenery call to attention the true threats to society today.

Artist Gabriel Legeleux, under the name Superpoze, has released his favorite track from the upcoming album Nova Cardinale. As a musician, composer, and electronic producer, the track merges piano, cello, and vocal hums. Paired with the visuals of the video which juxtapose similar visual compositions across times, generations, and genres, the layers of imagery and instruments create a mystical open-endedness that the artists intends to use to inspire viewers to forge their own paths. This album follows previous releases Opening, For We the Living, and his work with the band Kuage.

As a collective that integrates electronic and club motifs with minimalist and jazz themes, the work of GoGo Penguin transports listeners to a meditative state, and the video for “Ascent,” forges on that path. The track represents the artists’ first new work to feature their drummer, Jon Scott as well as the first work from the band in their partnership with Sony/XXIM Records. The track provokes internal interrogation and the visuals that accompany it feature a morphing set of digitized colors that allow for escapism, relaxation, and enjoyment in a peaceful, level state of mind held together by a reliable rhythm.

Sonic Cinema 08- Music videos from Seamus O’Muinechain, Teleskop & Wooden Peak, and Holodrum

From his fifth and latest album, Different Time Zones, “Over” is a reflective track by ambient and minimal composer and instrumentalist Seamus O’Muinechain. The musician composed the album across both the Czech Republic and his native Ireland, crafting a composition that is inspired by the role one’s environment plays in the creative process. The video accompanying “Over,” filmed in the Czech Republic, delivers a meditation on place, through abstracted water ripples, snowfall, and a sublime feel of isolation and calm. With not a single human in sight, the video shows a snowy street, absent of all life, making the ambient track deeply existential and accepting, bringing back a sense of connection at the end when a duck swims across the water marking the first sign of life for the duration of the video.

Sebastian Bode and Jonas Wolter release experimental pop music through the name WOODEN PEAK and sound art for films and museums through the name TELESKOP. “Human | Nature | Machine” is their electro acoustic and archaeological composition resulting from years spent collecting sound samples from the Energiefabrik Kanppenrode. A former briquette factory in East Germany that was closed at the end of the GDR and turned into a museum, the site is rich with the area’s mining history. Coming together with bass clarinet player Wencke Wollny, trombone player Antonia Hausmann, and bass player Christian Dähn, the video documents the group’s performance of the piece in the hall of the museum bringing the found sound and ethereal sonic texture to the industrial site.

“Free Advice” is a single from the upcoming debut album by Holodrum, set to drop at the end of February. A collaboration featuring members of Hookworms, Yard Act, Cowtown, Virginia Wing, Drahla and more, the album represents a collaboration and team effort that has been in the works among this community of musicians, for years. The disco rock and synth pop track is accompanied by a video of fun candy pop colors and a nostalgic, innocent set of pixelated video game imagery. Made by Emily Garner and the artist behind PastelFortress, Jonathan Nash, the visual story depicts the true lighthearted, fun, carefree tone of the track.

Sonic Cinema 06- Music videos from Chiminyo, Drum & Lace, Uèle Lamore

London-based drummer and producer Chiminyo has reimagined his song ‘See Me’ featuring K.O.G. in an innovative collaboration. Working with dancer Multi Musafiri and filmmaker Jordan Rawi, Chiminyo presents a live session video to emulate a stage performance all captured in one 5-minute shot. The song originally featured on the artist’s 2020 album I Am Panda and comes to life through the awe-inspiring choreography that moves the three dancers through the space during Chiminyo’s immersive drum performance. The warehouse space of the video provides the perfect scene for an experimental video shot by a filmmaker on roller-skates, moving around the space to capture the separate yet intertwined elements of drumming, vocals, and dance.

A sneak preview into the artist’s first full length LP due to drop in spring of 2022, ‘Creatura’ is a reflection on birth and life. As a metaphor for Drum & Lace’s new work, the exploratory use of natural sound is juxtaposed with hyper-zoomed-in views of organisms and fungi. Both the visual and auditory abstraction of nature allows the song to take on a pulse of its own, referencing motifs of psychedelics, magic, celestial worlds, and meditation. The artist’s experience writing music for film and media shines through as her piece creates a melodic soundtrack to a natural visual landscape, deep in the fractals of nature.

An other-worldly composition of black and white visuals draws the viewer into the video for this track, as one seeks to decipher the inverted natural world that is presented. In the meantime, the tranquilizing and soothing movement of every visual element allows this curiosity to move aside for an overwhelming calm and trance that is offered. As a new single from the artist Uèle Lamore’s upcoming album “Loom,” the song gives a sneak-peak into the indie pop, alternative, and electronic elements that will shine in the upcoming album, following the artist’s work for the soundtrack of Marcher sur l’eau earlier this year.