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Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, March 25 from 6pm for the thirtieth edition of Playback with Selwa Abd. Selwa Abd is...
03/21/2026

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, March 25 from 6pm for the thirtieth edition of Playback with Selwa Abd.

Selwa Abd is a Moroccan-born, New York–based interdisciplinary artist, composer, and design researcher working as Bergsonist. Her media, sound, and performance-based practice reconfigures archival and found materials into immersive environments. Drawing on electroacoustic and musique concrète traditions, she employs granular and spectral techniques to explore postcolonial identity, techno-futurism, and the psychological edges of virtuality. Abd has presented work at Roulette, ISSUE Project Room, MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Film Festival and MUTEK, and has been featured in BOMB Magazine, The Washington Post, GQ, and NPR. She has received support from NYSCA x Roulette, NYFA x Mayor’s Office for Entertainment’s Women’s Fund for Women, the Jerome Hill Artist Program, Issue Project Room, and Harvestworks. Her discography spans more than a decade, with releases on labels including Optimo Music, Borft, Columbia Records, and a forthcoming album on Dark Entries. Abd is also the founder of the opportunity resource Pick Up The Flow, the imprint bizaarbazaar and has been a resident DJ on NTS Radio since 2018.

Playback is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where record labels, musicians, composers, and producers feature recordings from their catalog, and premiere album pre-releases, archives, and other rarities.

Photo: Greg Zifcak

join us for false spring on the sidewalk ✨
03/10/2026

join us for false spring on the sidewalk ✨

Join us at Bar Laika on 𝙒𝙚𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 4 from 7pm for the twenty-eighth edition of 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 with 𝙏𝙮𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙𝙢𝙖𝙣. The a...
02/26/2026

Join us at Bar Laika on 𝙒𝙚𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 4 from 7pm for the twenty-eighth edition of 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 with 𝙏𝙮𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙𝙢𝙖𝙣. The artist will present his forthcoming album 𝙈𝙀𝙏𝙇𝘼𝙎𝙍–a double LP of microtonal idiophones and fm synthesizer geometries–to be released March 27, 2026 on Radicant_Editions.

Tyler Friedman’s music vacillates between cosmic impulses and analytical inclinations. Escaping the rift between post-club experimentalism and the theory-driven partition of contemporary art, his output spans numerous releases, soundtracks, installations, collaborations and performances and draws on an unwieldy arsenal of divergent references and tactics. Friedman’s solo output focuses on a lysergic strain of dubbed minimalism, equally indebted to late-00s techno and the downtown avant-garde. Created largely in a feedback loop with modular synthesizers and Max/MSP, his sequences and generative patterns are infused with an intuitive complexity and alchemical formalism. Current trajectories point further away from the strictures of club music and have been increasingly oriented towards alternative tunings and uncanny harmonic interactions. His music has been released on Sweden’s Kontra Musik, Arjuna Records, Tokyo-based Protection and Radicant_Editions. In the context of contemporary art, Friedman works to manifest conceptual constellations in sonic form. He has been responsible for the sonics of collaborative projects that have been commissioned and presented worldwide, including at dOCUMENTA(13), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Manifesta, Cycle Music & Arts Festival and the Yokohama Triennale among others.

Playback is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where record labels, musicians, composers, and producers feature recordings from their catalog, and premiere album pre-releases, archives, and other rarities.

back tonight 🦆🍸
02/24/2026

back tonight 🦆🍸

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, 𝙁𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙮 18 from 6pm for the twenty-seventh edition of 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 with 𝙆𝙖 𝘽𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙙.Ka Bair...
02/16/2026

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, 𝙁𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙮 18 from 6pm for the twenty-seventh edition of 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 with 𝙆𝙖 𝘽𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙙.

Ka Baird is a performer, sound artist, musician and composer based in New York City. They are known for their live performances which include extended voice and microphone techniques combined with electronics and psychoacoustic interplay of flutes and other woodwinds. They create a present tense sound with a vigorous, ritualistic delivery that seeks extreme release through physical exertion and psychic extension. They have worked/collaborated with many other musicians, artists, filmmakers and choreographers, both in structured compositions and in their dedicated practice of improvisation and interdisciplinary work.

Their solo releases include Sapropelic Pycnic (Drag City 2017), Respires (RVNG Intl 2019), Brooding Exercises (Longform Editions 2021), and Vivification Exercises (RVNG Intl 2021). In March 2024, they released their most recent solo record entitled Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos through Brooklyn imprint RVNG Intl. Recent national and international engagements have included performances at Unsound Festival (Krakow, PL), Lampo (Chicago, IL), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL), MoMA PS1 (Queens, NY), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY), The Kitchen (NYC), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA), TUSK Festival (Newcastle, UK), Incubate (Tilburg, NL), KRAAK (Brussels, BE), Le Guess Who (Utrecht, NL), and the Festival Of Endless Gratitude (Copenhagen, DK). They have been artist-in-residence at We Jazz Festival (Helsinki, FI), Sonoscopia (Porto, PT), Inkonst (Malmo, SE), Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago, IL), and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY). They have been a recipient of the Foundation of Contemporary Art’s Emergency Grant, a Jerome Foundation Artist-In-Residence at Roulette Intermedium, and was a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow from 2023-25.

Playback is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where record labels, musicians, composers, and producers feature recordings from their catalog, and premiere album pre-releases, archives, and other rarities.

every other monday night with
02/15/2026

every other monday night with

Join us at Bar Laika on 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟏 from 6pm for the twenty-sixth edition of 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 with 𝐈𝐬𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐥 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫-𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝...
02/03/2026

Join us at Bar Laika on 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟏 from 6pm for the twenty-sixth edition of 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 with 𝐈𝐬𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐥 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫-𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞.

Isobel Waller-Bridge is an award-winning composer known for her scores for film, television, ballet, and theatre, alongside her work in electronic and contemporary classical music. She works in a wide range of genres, extending across large-scale orchestral music, electronic sound design, experimental music, and songwriting. Her newest album Objects released in December 2025. Written over four years in the rare quiet moments her career allowed, Objects draws from the philosophies of Pauline Oliveros and the experimental radicalism of Stockhausen. Mining sounds from her surroundings and filtering them through minimalism and musique concrète, Waller-Bridge finds music within everyday materials — a ball, a shoe, a cushion, a pane of glass — each becoming a conduit for tenderness and attention. It has been praised by NPR for being “full of soft, patient, beautiful, still instrumentals” and by KCRW for its “personal, mysterious response to the world around us.”

Isobel has scored a multitude of films, including Munich: The Edge of War, Emma, Wicked Little Letters, and the BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse. Her television scores include Fleabag, Black Mirror, and Sweetpea. Her commissions include original work for the American Ballet Theatre for their new production of Crime and Punishment, alongside Temperatures for the Philharmonia Orchestra, which premiered at the Royal Festival Hall in 2021. She has collaborated with Alexander McQueen and Simone Rocha, scored installations at Frieze London and Venice Biennale, and partnered with the Royal Opera House’s Francesca Hayward.

Playback is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where record labels, musicians, composers, and producers feature recordings from their catalog, and premiere album pre-releases, archives, and other rarities.

bar laika 2016
02/02/2026

bar laika 2016

Join us at Bar Laika on 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟖 from 6pm for the twenty-fifth edition of Playback with 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬...
01/26/2026

Join us at Bar Laika on 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟖 from 6pm for the twenty-fifth edition of Playback with 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬.

Amenthia Recordings is an independent music label and cultural association based in Basel, Switzerland, dedicated to the intersection of ambient and club music. Founded in 2015 by Garçon and Agonis (performing at Public Records on January 30th), the label serves as a platform for innovative sound productions that prioritize artistic depth and sonic precision. What sets Amenthia apart is its commitment to building a strong connection between musical avant-garde, immersive club experiences, and visual design. Each release is developed in close collaboration with local and international artists, combining audio and visual elements to reinforce a shared creative ecosystem rooted in the Basel scene. Since its inception, Amenthia Recordings has released 17 EPs and LPs and established a distinct presence within the international electronic music landscape.

Through its work, Amenthia Recordings contributes to the diversity of Switzerland’s music scene, supports the development of artists’ careers, and strengthens the region’s creative infrastructure—while maintaining a unique identity at the crossroads of experimental music and contemporary club culture. Artists from the label have performed across Europe, Asia, North and South America—in renowned clubs like Berghain (Berlin), Concrete (Paris), Bassiani (Tbilisi), Contact (Tokyo), Good Room (New York), and Pawn Shop (Taipei), as well as influential festivals including The Labyrinth (Japan), Dekmantel (Netherlands), Fusion (Germany), Waking Life (Portugal), Parallel (Portugal), and Organik (Taiwan). Beyond releasing music, Amenthia organizes club nights in Basel (notably at Elysia, Wurm, and Kaserne) and hosts label showcases in cities like Berlin, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Taipei.


Playback is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where record labels, musicians, composers, and producers feature recordings from their catalog, and premiere album pre-releases, archives, and other rarities.

highball | rye, persimmon, red tea, lemon, whey, soda
01/08/2026

highball | rye, persimmon, red tea, lemon, whey, soda

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, 𝙉𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 5𝙩𝙝 from 6pm for the twenty-second edition of 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 with 𝘿𝙚𝙗𝙞𝙩 and 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙚...
10/23/2025

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, 𝙉𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 5𝙩𝙝 from 6pm for the twenty-second edition of 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 with 𝘿𝙚𝙗𝙞𝙩 and 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙧. Both artists will feature their new solo albums on the record label Modern Love.

𝘿𝙚𝙗𝙞𝙩 is a composer, producer, and performer whose work spans avant-garde experimentation, global club mutations, and site-specific art. Her upcoming release, Desaceleradas (Modern Love, Nov 7, 2025), reimagines 1990s cumbia rebajada mixtapes from Monterrey, layering archival material with ARP 2600 synthesis, accordion, and granular processes. Her works have been presented at institutions including the Whitney Museum, Venice Biennale, TONO Festival and Haus der Kunst.

𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙧 is Guy Brewer’s outlet for pressure, space, and restraint, a project that privileges atmosphere over genre rules. This sensibility reaches a new scale on Brewer’s first full-length as Carrier, Rhythm Immortal (Modern Love, Oct 24, 2025). Across the album, fractured syncopations intertwine with weightless ambience, expanding the project’s contours into something both elegant and raw. The works under the Carrier name outline a precise, atmospheric practice: lean on the surface, heavy underneath, always edging forward while resisting the pull of easy resolution. Carrier will perform live on November 6 at Pioneer Works for Durations Festival.

𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where composers, record labels and producers feature their catalog, premiere albums, archives and other rarities.

new york sour | kefir clarified whiskey sour, strawberry, red wine float
10/03/2025

new york sour | kefir clarified whiskey sour, strawberry, red wine float

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