On Repeat: Isungset, Aarset, Vogelsinger, Buckley, Levienaise-Farrouch

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I’ll later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all.

▰ In Memory of Nature by Terje Isungset and Eivind Aarset — this is Aarset’s most melodically remote album in some time, and the fact that percussionist Isungset gets top billing may explain why.

▰ Not sure if I’m ready for 2025, but Hélène Vogelsinger sure is. She posted this short montage of clips, “The Crossing,” from work she’s done the past year, all set to a single, flowing, warping, glorious synthesizer track.

▰ The Lincoln Lawyer and The Agency — two shows I’ve been watching, the scores to neither of which appear to be available commercially yet. David Buckley’s work on The Lincoln Lawyer has a jazz-tinged quality, emphasis on trumpet, that’s a little more ethereal than the score to Bosch (both series are based on novels by Michael Connelly). Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, whose work on The Agency I’ve mentioned previously, edges well past the standard grade tension-inducing beats and tones of thriller scores. I really want to hear both of these on their own, devoid of their respective narrative-making purposes.