Manu Delago

Circadian

Hang player from Björk’s Biophilia tour with latest conceptual treat. Relax and listen to this lying down, though you’ll probably fall asleep. After a period of intensive touring with artists like Björk, Anoushka Shankar and Ólafur Arnalds, the Austrian-born, London-based Delago found his sleep rhythms mixed up and overlapping. His latest solo album explores those elusive circadian rhythms, from drifting into sleep, to REM dream-state, to awakening. Following last year’s Alps field recording for

Parasol Peak and the electronic sounds of 2017’s Metromonk,

Delago uses warm woodwind instruments and world percussion, as well as the beautiful, head-cleansing chime of his hang (like a hand steel-drum), to create an ever-shifting, cyclical soundscape. Apart from the deliberately jarring, jolting rhythms of final track Zeitgeber, this takes ambient music into new, beguiling territory. Lucy O’Brien