Marie Chain and "Holy Water" come at a time when the lines between styles of music are becoming less natural. For more than ten years, the Berlin-based artist has been making what she calls "Global Soul," and her newest song shows why that term is so perfect. The track's origin story reads like something from a travel journal. Chain conceived the melody during a summer hike...

With her debut album "Komorebi," UK-based composer, producer, and pianist Sylvie Natsume captures something entirely elusive: the chaotic, precise physics of shifting daylight. The title borrows the Japanese term for sunlight filtering through a canopy of leaves, an absolutely fitting metaphor for this nature-inspired, entirely instrumental excursion. https://open.spotify.com/album/2wcL4kspBNshakVWHCZNu5?si=3E_vexVHREaT8Kv9n-O0lA Designed to be digested as one continuous suite, the record ignores our modern urge to compartmentalize. Instead, Natsume...