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The best experimental albums of the year highlight the breadth of human expression and take listeners to heretofore unknown realms in music, pushing boundaries.

One really great thing to do every day of the week.

The best new music to hit Dave Segal's inbox.

“It’s a wide variety of different genres, from New Age to Afro-Cuban, Latin jazz and a little bit of avant-garde,” said John Foster, the Jazz Institute’s managing director of programs and education initiatives, about this weekend’s Chicago Jazz Festival.

A quick round-up of recent esoteric releases, also including Suarasama, Samuel Rohrer, Fennesz and more

The Outside with Evan Miller from 4/30/23, from WYSO Music On Demand.

The music Joshua Abrams makes with his Natural Information Society is at once inviting, spell-inducing, and consciousness provoking.

Bringing together players from across Chicago’s improv community, Joshua Abrams’ ensemble folds elements of jazz and North African music into mesmerizing pieces that hint at eternity.

Check out our picks for this week's best new songs, featuring Hayden Pedigo, Girl Ray, Natural Information Society and more.