Music recommendations

Ben Lukas Boysen: Mirage

ormerly operating and also known under the pseudonym Hecq, Ben Lukas Boysen releases his third album under his own name. Let's make it short: It's a great longplayer, which oscillates between modern film music, progressive IDM and ambient and changes shape from the first to the last moment. The six songs also contain vocals (by Lisa Morgenstern), but they are so subtle and more like an instrument that you can basically speak of instrumentals. Basically the compositions are electronic, but organic instruments such as piano, cello (played by Anne Müller), drums, saxophone, harp or flugelhorn bring organic life into the music. This, in turn, does not mean that friends of electronic music have to fear an excessive break in style. The pieces are very atmospheric and open a wide space, but at the same time inspire with a passionate joy of experimentation and ambition. Somewhere between Nils Frahm and