Koyaanisqatsi: A New Score vinyl

Chantal Acda is known for penning and performing immersive dark folk music, while Eric Theilemans reputation as a master of percussion that focuses on anything but drums (well, OK, some drums) precedes him. Put them both together, then, and chances are you're not going to come up with the latest throwaway chart hit. Instead, we're offered one of those records that needs time to digest, not least if you already know the movie Koyaansqatsi and its original soundtrack.
A New Score was written for a live performance accompanying a screening of that film, but also works incredibly well as a standalone record. Adventurous and deeply human, it invokes images of landscapes that never give up, accentuating our spiritual connection to the planet ('Track 3'), while also managing to experiment with structure and samples, in turn nodding to the machines and electronics involved in its creation ('Track 2', for example).