Fuubutsushi

Fuubutsushi is the project of LA-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Patrick Shiroishi.  New track "Harmony of Irrelevant Facts" is a gentle, avant garde mix of jazz and neo-classical minimalism, and a perfect song to listen to on a Saturday morning while drinking coffee.  Check it out below and get the lathe cut 7" here from Whited Sepulchre Records.

Patrick Shiroishi

Recorded in a parking garage in the middle of the night with a saxophone, a glockenspiel, and a couple of mics in a single improvised take, LA artist Patrick Shiroishi's upcoming third album "I Was Too Young to Hear Silence" plays like a kind of unearthly melody that you only catch in your periphery, experimental ambient jazz floating somewhere in the ether.  It's at once hypnotizing and transcendent.  Check out the album closing "If Only Heaven Would Give Me Another Ten Years" below and pre-order the LP here from American Dreams.

Mars Kumari

Here's some haunting and minimalist ambient music from California artist Mars Kumari that feels like the soundtrack to some of our more somber or isolated moments from over the last year, staring out of bedroom windows and detached.  Download the "Elysian Mourning" album here from the artist and check out the title track featuring Patrick Shiroishi on a very subdued sax below.