We are doubly excited, as today marks a release of not just one but two great albums on NEXT Festival Records. Fero Király’s ‘How Much Can We Understand’ and Barbora Tomášková – ‘zDNA’ are out now. Get your copy via Bandcamp.

Fero Király: How Much Can We Understand maps out some of the foggy territory where technological systems intersect with organic complexity. The result is as much a feat of cold engineering as a tender ode to musical minimalism. Király´s previous works in microtonality and generative processes have pushed boundaries and bridged the gap between the digital and the organic. How Much Can We Understand sees the artist at a zenith, where the composed and the emergent, the organic and systemic, coexist as music.

The latest album by innovative Slovak composer, Barbora Tomášková, offers a unique suite of sounds, where boundaries between acoustic traditions and exploratory electronics dissolve. The Slovak composer and performer’s practice revolves around innovative use of ’objets trouvé’ and western classical instruments via hefty electronic manipulations and many extended techniques. There’s a ritual sensation to the interaction ofsounds on Tomášková’s mesmerising pieces; a dark and deeply resonant spin on composedimprovisations with as much in common with Iannis Xenakis as Don Cherry. The project was supported from public funds by Slovak Art Council.