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  New Release:  Self-Titled from Arid Landscapes Label:  Signal Chain Records Release Date:  September 19, 2025 Websites: https://www.dan-pitt.com https://www.noahfranche-nolanmusic.com https://aridlandscapes.bandcamp.com/album/arid-landscapes Toronto-based guitarist Dan Pitt and Vancouver pianist Noah Franche-Nolan come together to form Arid Landscapes.  Their self-titled CD demonstrates their commitment to curious-minded music-making, generating a body of work that probes the realm of abstract electronica.  Combining elements of sci-fi imaginings and atmospheric aesthetics, the pair delve into ghost-like textures and floating apparitions, prompting the listener to sink into the celestial soundscapes.  The charismatic gait and caressing fluidity of the sonic passages move like astral bodies, shimmering and gliding in a random schematic.  Sparse and roomy, the compositions produce an intimacy with the listener as though the music speaks to the min...

  New Release:  Stars, Engines from Harrison Argatoff's Valley Voice Label:  Elastic Recordings Release Date:  October 10, 2025 Websites:  https://harrisonargatoff.com https://harrisonargatoff.bandcamp.com/album/stars-engines Toronto-based tenor saxophonist and composer Harrison Argatoff leads jazz quartet Valley Voice into an ever-changing prism of harmonic forms and melodic trimmings in their debut CD Stars, Engines.   Comprised of vibraphonist Michael Davidson, bassist Dan Fortin, drummer Ian Wright, and Argatoff on saxophone, the quartet travels through an assortment of tropes from the soothing emanations of "Analemma" to the cryptic verses of "As Though I Knew" adorned in gyrating flares and undulating trickles, before coursing into the myriad of fluctuations across "Sun Patch," ribboned in percolating ringlets, oscillating motions and fluxing patterns.  Valley Voice experiments with enigmatic fissures and chimerical raptures, exploring abstract i...