Motion Music Reviews
In masses of live electronic sound, Jad Atoui built an opus
It Will Take Forever moves through emotions in swells, as if pulling us through feelings. Composed and played live on modular synths from 2023 to 2025 in Beirut, Jad Atoui’s work almost sings grief through those electronics, in a world being ripped apart. Behind it, club-sized sub-bass impact rumbles like our own bodies. There’s now a video by Ralf Moussa, as well.
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Temp-Illusion’s video for “Sketchy” captures senseless cacophony
The news can be numbing in all its violence and mindlessness, compounded by a chorus of shills across media and social media. Temp-Illusion, the duo formed in Tehran by Shahin Entezami and Behrang Najafi, cuts through those feelings like a knife. Then stick around for the deeply meditative Bayal بیل (Shanin + Adel Poursamadi).
POST playlist: a mix of new music for sleepless nights
For my semi-regular program POST for Refuge Worldwide this week, I focused on new releases. This highlighted Lebanon in particular and still didn’t cover the flurry of releases there, but it covered other places, too. It’s all recommended, so here’s the full playback and track listing with links.
Drew Daniel, aka The Soft Pink Truth, hits home talking strings and survival
Peter Kirn - November 19, 2025
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Coffee cups, pizza boxes, everything’s an instrument: watch clipping. play
Peter Kirn - November 7, 2025
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