Welcome to the Australian Art Music playlist! A monthly playlist of classical, jazz, experimental and electronic music focused on contemporary Australian composers, musicians and sound artists.

Musicians need support to keep creating the music you love. So, moving forward I’ll be hosting the playlist on Bandcamp and BuyMusic.Club where you can listen to and buy digital or physical copies of your favourites each month. I’m buying a digital copy of every album featured and I invite you all to join me!

This month, we’re spotlight a whole bunch of new releases and previewing some upcoming albums across the gamut of Australian art music. We have solo guitar to pure electronics to opera. As always if anything excites you, definitely go check out the full albums – it was so hard to pick only one or two from each!

A couple of personal highlights include Desert of Crystal (another name for Antarctica) by Fiona Joy Hawkins, the textural Full Forest by Julius Schwing, and the majestic and haunting Ghost Type by Lawrence English. Let us know your favourites on social media, keen to see what resonates.