Treat your taste buds to these mouthwatering leftovers!
Trying to keep up with the daily deluge of music is like trying to drink from a firehose. While we do our best to share all the good music that comes our way, some gems inevitably slip through the cracks. That’s where The Leftovers features come in; each Friday, we serve up five tasty morsels that we couldn’t let slip away into easily digestible snippets. This week, we’re showcasing new music from Kinkajous, Stargazers, AVA TRIO and more. Lap up these delectable treats.
Kinkajous’ new release, Bahman with an H, is a haunting original soundtrack that blends ambient jazz with modular synthesis, piano, saxophone, and drums. Composed as a continuous 18‑minute piece for Sam Motazedi’s short film, the London‑based duo Benoit Parmentier and Adrien Cau craft music that unfolds in chapters named in Farsi, mirroring the protagonist’s inner spiral. Like everything the duo releases, this is pure magic. All that’s left to do is hit play, relax, and immerse yourself in the music! Enjoy every note!
Stargazers – the new visionary Amsterdam-based ensemble – recently released their self-titled debut album via London-based imprint Night Dreamer. Drawing on the spiritual, freedom-driven sound of 60s/70s Black jazz, Stargazers breathe new life into the introspective, quietly crafted, and previously hidden musical diary of the ensemble’s orchestrator, saxophonist, flautist, and composer, Finn Peters.
Lunae marks a special milestone for AVA TRIO—their fifth album, celebrating ten years together—and what a celebration it is. Recorded inside a centuries-old trullo (a traditional conical limestone chamber) in southern Italy, it’s an archeo-musicological journey that treats the ancient space itself as the band’s fourth instrument. The trio—Giuseppe Doronzo on prepared baritone sax and various wind instruments, Esat Ekincioglu on double bass, and Pino Basile on cupaphon and percussion—has created something wonderfully atmospheric. Across six tracks representing lunar phases, they evoke forgotten moon rituals where Mediterranean folk traditions blend seamlessly with contemporary jazz improvisation. Definitely an album you need to spend some time with.
The Last Sound On Earth finds Roberto Carlos Lange, aka Helado Negro, contemplating mortality through the transcendent lens of indie electronic pop. The five-track EP channels Helado’s meditation on the final sound before death into 29 minutes of groovy beats, synth-driven soundscapes and emotional honesty. Inspired by Michael Snow’s Wavelength, Lange explores love’s cyclical nature and daily overwhelm. From the anxiety of ‘More’ to the hopeful refrain of ‘Don’t Give It Up Now’, it’s one of those infectious records that you can play again and again without ever getting bored.
The year isn’t over yet, but we’re already counting down the days to the forthcoming Asher Gamedze new album, set for release in February 2026. ‘A Semblance: Of Return’ is the third album from the South African drummer, composer, and activist, and it finds him gathering an ensemble of close friends to explore a semblance of Cape Town. Of the lead single ‘Following Up’ – Gamedze says: “Coterminous existence of multiple intersecting dead lines.” Tune in below.
