Listening Bar Albums

Midori Takada – Through the Looking Glass (1983)

Midori Takada – Through the Looking Glass (1983)

Midori Takada’s Through the Looking Glass (1983) is a visionary ambient masterpiece — layered percussion, marimba, and gongs creating imagined landscapes.

Midori Takada – Through the Looking Glass (1983)

Midori Takada’s Through the Looking Glass (1983) is a visionary ambient masterpiece — layered percussion, marimba, and gongs creating imagined landscapes.

Stars of the Lid – And Their Refinement of the Decline (2007)

Stars of the Lid – And Their Refinement of the ...

Stars of the Lid’s And Their Refinement of the Decline (2007) is a two-hour ambient masterpiece — drones and strings creating vast, luminous stillness.

Stars of the Lid – And Their Refinement of the ...

Stars of the Lid’s And Their Refinement of the Decline (2007) is a two-hour ambient masterpiece — drones and strings creating vast, luminous stillness.

DJ Sprinkles – Midtown 120 Blues (2009)

DJ Sprinkles – Midtown 120 Blues (2009)

DJ Sprinkles’ Midtown 120 Blues (2009) is deep house as testimony — a queer, political, slow-burning masterpiece that reclaims the dancefloor’s history.

DJ Sprinkles – Midtown 120 Blues (2009)

DJ Sprinkles’ Midtown 120 Blues (2009) is deep house as testimony — a queer, political, slow-burning masterpiece that reclaims the dancefloor’s history.

Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe (2013)

Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe (2013)

Julianna Barwick’s Nepenthe (2013) is a luminous, wordless masterpiece — layered vocals creating cathedral-like spaces of stillness and care.

Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe (2013)

Julianna Barwick’s Nepenthe (2013) is a luminous, wordless masterpiece — layered vocals creating cathedral-like spaces of stillness and care.

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid – Tongues (2007)

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid – Tongues (2007)

Tongues (2007) by Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid is a powerful dialogue — live improvisations where jazz drumming and electronics merge in real time.

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid – Tongues (2007)

Tongues (2007) by Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid is a powerful dialogue — live improvisations where jazz drumming and electronics merge in real time.

Kamasi Washington – The Epic (2015)

Kamasi Washington – The Epic (2015)

Kamasi Washington’s The Epic (2015) is a three-hour, triple-album manifesto — jazz as symphony, community, and cosmic vision, bold yet welcoming.

Kamasi Washington – The Epic (2015)

Kamasi Washington’s The Epic (2015) is a three-hour, triple-album manifesto — jazz as symphony, community, and cosmic vision, bold yet welcoming.