Rob Giles, the singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist winner of a Grammy award, announces his 'Meditation Drive-Thru'. His solo efforts and association with Andy Summers of The Police as well as Lisa Loeb, among other collaborations have made his journey in music an interesting one. One would easily mistake it for Giles’ dusk phase. Having suffered five studio albums and encountered the turbulence of the industry, he took...

Seishin Takeno's "Echoes," a sonic postcard from Kanagawa. Nine instrumental pieces, I've been told. Not nine songs, mind you – more like nine shaded windows into a particular kind of quiet. This isn't music that yells; it leans in, like a friend confiding a secret you half-hear on a summer porch. Immediately, you're not so much listening as remembering. Or maybe anticipating. It feels...