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Velella

‘Velella’ refers to Velella velella - the “by-the-wind sailor,” a colonial hydrozoan whose way of life, floating across the surface of the open ocean, carries it by the wind to many places, as we hope our music does for our listeners. Recorded live in Brisbane by the extraordinary Melbourne-based sound engineer Siiri Metsar, this album further extends the band’s unique sound and style, inviting listeners to immerse themselves in its finely-crafted soundscapes and improvisations. Over the eight years of their collaboration, East of West have developed an intuitive musical relationship, flourishing through their dynamic interplays, virtuosic unison melodies and expressive soloing. Gajić’s compositions explore gentle melodic motifs nested in uptempo passages set to Balkan-influenced rhythms, interspersed with moments of mesmerising musical sparseness. “I had two new ideas for this album,” Gajić says. “One of them was to arrange tunes allowing for improvised sections to become more open and interactive, and to be as important part of the recording as the melody. I believe we managed to achieve this in a couple of tracks and I am quite pleased with that. Another thing I wanted is to give more opportunity for Malindi to express herself on percussion. She always carefully crafts her percussion arrangements, but this time she had a few more opportunities for open solos which she played rather beautifully.“ Philip Griffin, the trio’s oud player and a highly skilled naturalist, has also contributed two compositions to this album: a Distinct Lack of Parrotfinch - a driving piece in the unusual time signature of 50/8 - whose title links to his adventures in search of the elusive bird. His second piece, Camille, was written for his god-daughter.

Sunken Cages

Neram Pularumbol (As The Dawn Breaks)

12 track album, released August 7, 2026 Neram Pularumbol (As The Dawn Breaks) is Sunken Cages’ long-awaited follow-up to his 2021 debut on On The Corner Records. Over the past 5 years he has developed an idiosyncratic production style that blends South Indian folk instruments with electronic drums, dark synths, drones and industrial textures to create a freshly deconstructed global club music. Evoking resynthesis - a processing method in electronic music that analyzes sounds to extract their fundamental component, as a guiding metaphor, he has produced tracks that confronted conservative views of culture as something frozen, solidified and sanctified, thus resistant to change. For this collaborative album, he tapped genre-blurring music producers, vocalists and multi-instrumentalists from all over the globe. Rani Jambak, an Indigenous Indonesian composer, producer, instrument designer and vocalist, brought haunting vocals, chants to “Athiraavile.” Indo-Californian producer Kush Arora, known for fusing deconstructed Punjabi music with Industrial, Dancehall, reworked “Idakka” for a noisier and more propulsive narrative. Kuza, a Classically trained South African vocalist, bridged the gap between Gqom and a ghostly Aria. Additionally, remixers Lila Tirando a Violeta (Uruguay), Masma Dream World (Gabon/US), and El Kontessa (Egypt), along with Mahorka staples Weldroid (Hungary/Sweden), and Moki McFly (Phillipines) brought their distinctive signature sounds to reinvent the original tracks. All tracks written/arranged/produced by Sunken Cages (Lungees & Combat Boots Music, ASCAP), 2024-2026, Philadelphia, USA Mastered by Weldroid (Tamas Zsiros), May 2026, Stockholm, Sweden Graphic design by Angel Draganov "Deep gratitude to Mahorka Records for believing in this project and to all the amazing guest collaborators - Rani Jambak, Kush Arora, Masma Dream World, Lila Tirando a Violeta, El Kontessa, Weldroid, Moki McFly & Kuza - for bringing the fire!" [mhrk503]

East of West

Pastorale

This album began with a small piano being crammed into the back of a family car. Malindi, our percussionist, was on a mission to buy a piano that could fit in our tiny apartment. After visiting and rejecting a number of them, Malindi found a beautiful old spinet upright. She called the owner, we drove to the suburbs, walked behind the house - and there was the piano, sitting on the grass, covered in a tarpaulin, in the middle of the rainy, sweaty Brisbane summer. Our hearts sank deeper than our feet into the suburban floodplain mud. The owner's ex had turfed the piano and all his music gear out of the house to the mercy of the subtropical summer weather. He offered it to us for zero dollars. Malindi bargained the price up, three of us somehow loaded it into the back of Subaru Forester and took it home. The piano tuner worked hard to give the piano back some self-respect, and on it I sketched out the compositions on this album which were played by the remarkable Romano Crivici to complement East of West's oud, double bass and percussion. We recorded on a beautiful Steinway piano with an equally interesting story, but we'll leave that for another time.

Zenekar

Swirls

‘Swirls' is the adventurous debut album from Zenekar – a collaboration between global music travellers Catharina Kemp (clarinet, bass clarinet, composition), John Reeves (button accordion), Samuel Vincent (double bass) and Dave Kemp (percussion, composition). Recorded at Alchemix Studios with Marly Lüske at the controls, ‘Swirls' is a journey through ten compositions that run the gamut from African based rhythmic styles, through Eastern European harmonic systems, to free flowing jazz inspired improvisations.