Polish jazz musician Wacław Zimpel made the 'The Long Weekend' EP with British electronic producer James Holden, a rich jazz electronica album, with a trance quality, which is where both musicians come together. They interviewed each other for the Quietus, this is how they see their common ground: "I've got a million definitions for trance - but the first sign for me is when you start hearing inside the sound, or outside linear time - notes aren't just a note in a place in a sequence but exist in relation to all the previous and future versions of themselves" - Holden; "to me one of the ways of getting to this state of mind is via repetition of a pattern. After many repetitions I stop thinking about this and I become equally listener and player. Eventually I have the feeling that I am disappearing" - Zimpel.

Gdinya quartet Lonker See play jazzy/spacey post-rock on their new album 'Hamza', a one "that leaps straight into the action... The band gets to the heart of the matter in much shorter time" than on their previous album, the Quietus says in a review. 'Massive Oscillations' is the second album by the Forest Swords and James Holden collaborator Waclaw Zimpel - "an undisputed career highlight that finds Zimpel scaling new heights. While his debut picked up the baton from minimalist influences... here he goes for full maximalism and the results are staggering... A beautifully bold and powerful album" - the Q.

Plenty of good new songs this week - Nadia Reid has released a delicate and atmospheric new record, Drive-By Truckers sing about how thoughts and prayers aren't enough to deal with mass-shootings, emo-core veterans Alexisonfire are reunited and going atmospheric, LA beatmaker TOKiMONSTA gets help from EarthGang on her highly psychedelic song, Ultraista is a band made up of members of Atoms For Peace + vocalist Laura Bettinson, they released a dancey new song, dark-folk singer Myrkur goes theatrical on her new record, modern jazz meets electronica on Wacław Zimpel's new song...