There are moments in music when a single note — or rather, the deliberate withholding of one — says more than a hundred bars of frenzied activity ever could. Kamila Csenge understands this. The Czech guitarist and composer, who has quietly been sharpening her craft across stages from New York's ShapeShifter Lab to the Prague Congress Center, arrives with her debut single "Against the Wall" not as an artist announcing herself in the usual blaze of self-promotional noise, but as one who simply sits down, picks up her guitar, and plays with the quiet authority of someone who has earned every single second of your attention.

There is a particular kind of longing that has no clean translation in English. The Portuguese have *saudade*. The Welsh have *hiraeth*. Odd Little Thrills — a Prague-based dreampop duo whose members hail from Istanbul and Arkansas — seem to have built a whole sonic architecture around exactly that feeling, a feeling the rest of us have been fumbling to name for years. On *There Was, There Wasn't*, their quietly stunning debut EP, they don't bother naming it. They simply play it back to you, slow and close, like a home video you don't remember making.

George Collins occupies a peculiar position within contemporary rock: the Prague-based American songwriter who walked away from a twenty-year career in finance at fifty to pursue music full-time, who once shared stages with future Dave Matthews Band members Carter Beauford and the late LeRoi Moore, and who now—approaching seventy—delivers work that carries the accumulated weight of a life fully examined. 'Black and White World', the lead single from his forthcoming album *New Ways of Getting Old*, represents Collins at his most purposeful, marshaling hard-won wisdom into a protest anthem for nuance itself.

Twenty years into a career that has seen him traverse the intimate folk clubs of Manchester to festival stages across Europe, James Harries has delivered his most vital statement yet. *Love & Desire*, released today through Tranzistor/Supraphon, represents both a radical departure and a homecoming—an album born from the wreckage of perfectionism and rebuilt on the foundations of trust, instinct, and gloriously imperfect humanity.

There's a curious alchemy at work when a band sheds its skin entirely. Dymytry Paradox isn't merely a rebranding exercise or cynical attempt at international crossover—it's a parallel reality spun from the DNA of Czech metal stalwarts Dymytry, yet possessed of its own voice, vision, and volcanic intensity. With 'Red Sky Remains', released 18 September with accompanying visuals, this masked quintet announces not just a new single, but a manifesto for the disenfranchised.

Czech musician Veanea delivers an earnest if somewhat predictable entry into the contemporary Christian music canon with "Dancing in Your Love," a single that wears its spiritual devotion proudly on its sleeve. Born from what the artist describes as a divine vision of dancing in God's presence, the track aims for transcendent joy but settles more comfortably into familiar gospel territory.

Kitty Kant Collective is a unique project and a group of ideologically united people who bring their common art and their special mission to the masses. The new creative association includes musicians and producers from many countries, including USA, Czechia, Estonia, Sweden, Turkey, and Azerbaijan.

The Czech music project Long Term Parking is a real supergroup consisting of famous musicians on the local professional scene. The band was founded in 2019 and only in early 2022 they released their debut full-length album called 'Luxury Luxury'.

The song '100 Years' by the Czech band November 2nd became the soundtrack and the main musical composition for the film 'Lifeline'. This film can be proud of the participation of famous creative people who worked on its creation, so we will wait for its release (coming to cinemas on Sep 30).

In their new releases, the Czech shoegaze duo Lab on Fire is experimenting with dream pop styles and psychedelic music. Their single 'Connection Failed' is a masterpiece of the alternative year and should be heard by all fans of the 90s.