PLAYLIST
- [0:00] INTRODUCTION
- [01:41] “RainSong” by David Aimone from “Changes” (Passed Recordings, 2025)
- [05:32] “Midnight Oasis” by dreamwarper from “The Truth is Beautiful” (Independent, 2025)
- [11:00] “Transgalactic Silence (Extended version)” by Eguana from “Antimatter Bloom” (Cosmic Leaf Records, 2025)
- [17:28] Featured Artist Segment
- [19:43] “Signals from a Distant Afterglow” by Rafael Anton Irisarri from “Points of Inaccessibility” (Black Knoll Editions, 2026)
- [28:00] “Inside The Static” by Extremis from “Dive In - Chapter 8” (Mare Nostrum, 2025)
- [31:05] “Golden Pond” by Naneum from “Dreams Remembered Pt. II” (Heart Dance Records, 2025)
- [34:17] “Morphia” by Guentner + Spieth from “Conversion” (Affin, 2025)
- [42:42] Featured Artist Segment
- [44:23] “With Trees Where We Can See” by KMRU from “Kin” (Editions Mego, 2026)
- [47:52] “From A to B” by Clarice Jensen from “In Holiday Clothing, Out Of The Great Darkness” (FatCat / 130701, 2025)
- [55:01] “City Of Dawn - Sapphire Hour” by City of Dawn from “Solar Return: Gollden Hour Mix” (Imaginary North Records, 2025)
Artist Information
Rafael Anton Irisarri
Ibero-American composer and ambient experimentalist Rafael Anton Irisarri has a new EP available now through Klang Signals* that effortlessly transcends ambient, experimental, and modern classical music. Born in Puerto Rico and now based in both Spain and rural New York, he first emerged in Seattle’s 2000s scene under the moniker “The Sight Below”, where blurred guitar textures and submerged rhythms met the skeletal pulses of minimalist techno. Irisarri spent days working alongside Dutch visual artist Jaco Schilp improvising inside the former Pieter Baan Centre in the Netherlands, a psychiatric prison whose charged atmosphere shaped the project’s sound and tone. His new album, “Points of Inaccessibility”, is the resulting work of his contemplation about how disconnection feels in an age obsessed with connectivity. Irisarri writes, “We are constantly online, constantly visible, yet we drift further apart. The real distance isn’t geographic anymore, it’s emotional.” It’s that emotional chasm that he’s consummately encapsulated with broad-sweeping strokes of washed out guitar, slow evolving soundscapes, ghostly textures, veneers of soft noise, and emotionally charged motifs that reflect the strange loneliness that subverts our need for constant connection. In Irisarri’s own words, “a loneliness that hums quietly beneath the surface of everything.” From his EP “Points of Inaccessibility”, here’s Rafael Anton Irisarri with the track “Signals from a Distant Afterglow”, here on The Relay Station.
*correction: The representing label is Black Knoll Editions, and Klang Signals is the PR firm.
https://irisarri.bandcamp.com
https://klangsignals.mmm.page
KMRU
Joseph Kamaru, who operates under the name KMRU, is a Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist whose work is grounded on the discourse of field recording, noise, and sound art. His work makes the case for expanding our listening cultures of sonic thoughts and sound practices, a proposition to consider and reflect on auditory cultures beyond the norms. His work has earned him international acclaim from the likes of Barbican, Berlin Atonal, CTM festival, and more. Kamaru’s latest work “Kin” is a six-song album that explores a noisier palette of sounds encompassing distortions reminiscent of his guitar playing in his younger years. Layered in with that distortion are complementary warm swaying melodies, glaciers of shimmering drones, clouds of shadowy noir, and euphoric electronic storms of sound. It’s an overall esthetic that encourages further investigation with repeated listens — and it’s those additional sessions that brings out subtleties of colors, texture, and nuance — an album that rewards concentration with magic. From his album “Kin”, here’s KMRU with the track “With Trees Where We Can See”, here on The Relay Station.
https://kmru.bandcamp.com
https://mego.at
ARTIST LINKS
Rafael Anton Irisarri
https://irisarri.bandcamp.com
KMRU
https://kmru.bandcamp.com