Guitarists who dream in orchestral colour are rare enough. Guitarists who can persuade Vinnie Colaiuta, John Patitucci and the Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Prague to dream alongside them, on a debut single, are rarer still. NOR.BE has managed it, and "All For You" announces him not as a hopeful newcomer but as a fully formed voice who simply hadn't been heard yet.

Shorty has spent a career serving other people's songs — first in Millhouse, then Symbiosis, then IONS — learning the architecture of a band from the inside before deciding to strip it all away and build something alone. *home*, his debut as motko, is the sound of a musician finally answering a question he'd been circling for years: what happens when nobody else is in the room?

Every so often a record arrives from somewhere entirely unexpected — not from the rehearsal rooms of Hackney or the coffee-stained studios of Brooklyn — and has the audacity to feel more necessary than anything the established centres of cool have managed to produce in months. *MomentuM*, the debut long-player from Ephemera Veil, is precisely that kind of record. Born in Slovakia, conjured by the pianist and vocalist Alexandra Cisárová, it lands with the quiet authority of someone who has absolutely nothing to prove and, for that reason alone, proves everything.

The Slovak artist MARS_999 has delivered a music video that functions as both aesthetic statement and philosophical provocation. "Odpoj Svet z Prístrojov" ("Disconnect the World from the Devices"), from his debut album EUPHONIA, arrives with the grainy authenticity of a rediscovered artifact, shot entirely on 8mm film by cinematographer Tereza Havadejová – whose recent work on the Student Academy Award-winning documentary *Confession* established her as a formidable visual storyteller.

'BRIDGES BETWEEN WORDS' is a new track from the promising artist AGON. Combining elements of hip-hop and ambient in his music, AGON creates an original layer of art where philosophy, poetry and modern musical trends intersect.

Slovak musician Absorver gave a pleasant surprise to fans of electronic music by releasing a new EP 'Absorvations'. In the new work of the musician, we got acquainted with 7 tracks that follow one another, carrying the main idea of ​​the author, complementing each track with something new.