Celebrated Scottish fiddle player Laura Jane Wilkie’s debut album ‘Vent’ screams confidence from start to finish. There are surprises and delights throughout its nine tracks that will demand many listens, each bringing something new.

While Small Medium Large, the exploratory kosmische jazz debut from SML (Anna Butterss, Jeremiah Chiu, Josh Johnson, Booker Stardrum & Gregory Uhlmann) contains unexpected multitudes, even at its most complex moments, it remains bright and airy, reflecting an impressive and sincere unity to their playing.

With the deeply immersive Wild Silence, we are given a glimpse of the world of Irish ornithologist and sound recordist Seán Ronayne, who captures the sound of nature without anthropogenic noise. This immersive album precedes his memoir, Nature Boy, which will be published in October.

Taken from Dean Owens forthcoming new album ‘Spirit Ridge’, watch the video for ‘My Beloved Hills’, his lead single. The new album is as big and cinematic as Dean’s recent collaboration with Calexico, with an equally deeply rooted sense of place.

The sixth in a series of Loose Music nights at the Betsey Trotwood pub featuring Roseanne Reid, Ollie Cook and surprise guest Will Varley provided a low-key and intimate alternative to the Glastonbury festival.

Lisa O’Neill has announced two very special ‘Symphony for the Moons’ orchestral shows this winter at Dublin’s National Concert Hall with the National Symphony Orchestra and London’s Barbican with the Britten Sinfonia.

In their latest Echos documentary, Murailles Music presents the music of Borja Flames. ‘cosmogonie pop’ examines Borja’s music and synesthesia. It’s a beautiful insight and an informative documentary that offers plenty of food for thought on music today.

The overall sound of The Key tends toward a hard-edged, rocky sub-species of post-punk, but in Chris Corsano’s hands, everything is up for grabs, and those genres become mutable and malleable…not a moment of it is anything less than engaging, and it is frequently astonishing.

With What Is Not Strange? Tashi Wada has announced himself as a truly distinctive voice, capable of creating experimental music on the most human level.

A New Monday Morning Brew – ft. Kettel & Secede, Black Decelerant, Nathan Bowles Trio, Ursula K. Le Guinn, Drew Gardner, Tashi Wada & Julia Holter, Naima Bock, Msaki x Tubatsi, David Mansfield and Van Dyke Parks, The Chitinous Ensemble and more.

Gabriel Birnbaum’s ‘Patron Saint of Tireless Losers’ is haunted by subtilty, shade and shadows, he seems to know the landscape and the landmarks well.

Spanish artist Alba Haro shares her video for ‘Lo que sueña de noche’, inspired by Federico García Lorca’s Zorongo Gitano. Its refined and dreamlike qualities also highlight her evolved and inventive relationship with the cello.