Isolation during the worldwide pandemic has affected different people in different ways. Some are struggling while others are no worse for wear. It has impacted musicians in a similarly divergent fashion with many (and I mean many) releasing albums of field recordings and/or solo playing recorded at home. Two of the latest – each focused on different roles of windows – are featured below.

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While still letting the environment make the music, so to speak, Kamran Sadeghi’s Between Us has a very different sound and feel when compared to Shiroishi’s efforts. Using windows to represent a filtering barrier between our inside and outside lives, he attached high-gain contact mics to his. The resulting EP-length set of recordings are more drone-like and feature little in the way of recognizable sounds. Bleak and rumbling, with occasional percussion patterns and echoing pulses, Between Us is a stark reminder that we are all ultimately alone, but the layers of meaning can be found just beneath the monotony.
— Mike Borella, Avant Music News