A longtime favourite artist of ours, composer, percussionist, instrument maker and improviser Bex Burch, will release a new solo album, notes 001, on 10th May.

We say solo album but it’s much more that that. notes 001 is a very special record, featuring a four-part composition performed by Burch in a single live take on phase8, KORG’s new eight-voice acoustic synthesiser.

Invited by KORG’s Berlin-based team to explore and present phase8, Bex’s hands-on process led to refinements in its effects and expanding its sequencing capabilities. Her dialogue with the team’s engineers helped shape the instrument’s final expressive range. The result: a record and an instrument shaped through exchange, a collaboration that lives on in phase8 and in notes 001.

Speaking about the project, Burch explains: “phase8 was a voice and a duo partner with creative input that informed the music. This piece is about listening – to nature, to machine, to my own creativity.” Burch continues, “ I am so grateful I was asked to make this music for the Korg Berlin team. Performing it for them was perhaps one of the most rewarding performance experiences I’ve ever had.”

With the album on the horizon, Burch offers the beautiful and wholly enveloping ‘Hello again’. Polyrhythms ripple between twinkling kalimba, phase8, and Burch’s ghost‑light vocal lines, each slipping around the others with the fluid, unpredictable grace of water in motion.

This collaboration between Burch and KORG blooms like a constellation coming into focus, radiant, delicate, and impossible to look away from. When the album arrives, your ears are in for an absolute treat.