Rafiq Bhatia - Environments (2025) [Hi-Res]

Oscar-nominated composer Rafiq Bhatia has only deepened his status as "one of the most intriguing figures in music today...who refuses to be pinned to one genre, culture or instrument" (New York Times). On his new album Environments out on September 12th, Bhatia makes sculptural, meticulously crafted music that finds common ground among ecstatic avant-garde jazz. New technological integrations have allowed Bhatia to merge his last decade of development as an electroacoustic composer back into his practice as an improvising guitarist, using real-time sam pling and manipulation to express and develop multiple worlds of sound at once. Rafiq has previously co-scored Marvel's Thunderbolts and the Oscar-nominated soundtrack for Everything Everywhere All AT Once with his bandmates, Son Lux.

Rafiq Bhatia — guitar, live processing
Ian Chang — acoustic & electronic percussion
Riley Mulherkar — trumpet