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There’s something different about this issue. Not just in the way it looks, although it does look sharper, more layered, and intentional, but in how it moves. Issue #8 feels like a space where different practices collide: music, visual art, digital experimentation, and everything in between. CVLTARTES Issue #8 brings […]
The organizers of the Rock la Mureș festival, scheduled for July 10–11 at its traditional location on the banks of the Mureș River, at Periam Port in Timiș County, announce a new wave of artists joining the already confirmed lineup. The announcement includes four bands from different sonic areas, selected […]
Lira Bekbolatova’s latest releases unfold like a quiet interior dialogue, shaped by memory, grief, and the search for an inner sense of home. Moving away from external narratives and toward a deeply introspective language, her recent work treats music as a form of creative meditation, a space where questions are […]
Some albums announce themselves loudly, and others insinuate their presence over time, quietly rearranging the furniture in your head. “Mekanikaru” belongs firmly to the second category, and that is precisely its strength. It did not win me over instantly. Instead, it returned, insisted gently, and ended up occupying a space […]
Emerging from the theatrical world, Galore is an artist who defies simple categorization. What began as a stage persona has grown into a multifaceted musical project, blending the intimacy of cabaret with the expansiveness of original songwriting. With roots in Italy and a creative home in London, Galore navigates a […]
This January, Kings Place presents a three‑day immersive event with award‑winning creative studio Ristband, combining live music, VR performance, and a machine‑learning installation to explore how we inhabit and remember the world around us. As part of ‘Memory Unwrapped‘, running 15-17 January 2026, audiences can step into a mixed‑reality VR […]
There’s something immediately magnetic about Freya Magee’s ‘Over There’. From the first jangly strum of guitar, it feels like stepping into a space that’s hers alone, private, playful, and unapologetically self-contained, yet somehow it draws you in like a friend you didn’t know you needed. London-based and Melbourne-born, Magee has […]
Galore’s ‘You Love Me, You Love Me Not’ is a bold exploration of love, loss, and identity. From the very first piano notes, the song envelops the listener in a space that is at once intimate and vast, where every chord seems charged with both longing and inevitability. Galore’s voice […]
In 2025, the Mleiha Archaeological Site in the UAE, a landscape layered with over 210,000 years of human history, became the stage for something extraordinary. Călin Țopa’s ‘Transcendent Renaissance’ was not a performance in the traditional sense. It was a full-scale temporal journey, a living installation where sound, light, and […]
There’s no clear starting point in this conversation with EISM. It moves through hesitation, control, and the quiet labor of staying human inside systems that prefer smoothness over doubt. “MEKANIKARU” hovers in the background, not as a product to be decoded, but as a condition shaping how sound, time, and […]