Lasus - PSALM026∶ Conjure (2026)

UK guitarist and composer Lasus joins Phantom Limb’s Spirituals imprint for the release of new album Conjure, tending an organic garden of jazz-inflected post-rock, baile funk, ambient weightlessness, and earthen beat programming.

Having contributed to London and Porto's jazz, electronic, and improvised scenes for the past several years, Conjure represents the weaving of Lasus’ (aka guitar player Eamon Foreman) various threads of musical experience, upbringing, and interests into a sweet and multileveled environ that crosses reference points as varied as Tortoise, early BBC children’s soundtracks, Dialect, lusophone rhythm, More Eaze, and Vini Reilly.

“Music, and the way we make it, changes the way we perceive the world around us,” writes Foreman. “In order to conjure new ways of being, in a world that is being constantly reshaped by digital and internet technologies, artists must create a process of mutual infection between the digital and the physical, the virtual and the real.”

This model of co-existence is evident throughout Conjure, whose synthesised elements feel so organic as to be living, and whose acoustic recordings are often so deeply treated as to feel otherworldly. Opening track “Signs”, for example, marries lush clarinet with restrained dissonance to skitter around tropico-IDM rhythms that could have come from a cybernetic Hermeto Pascoal.

Elsewhere, “Street” is yet more kinetic, processed voice helping to fill hanging negative space underpinned by the kind of incessant, bubbling rhythms usually found accompanying favela MCs and motorbike revs.

Foreman’s background in jazz pokes through in disciplined and sophisticated melodic fluidity, rarely colouring the palette beyond moments of ear-piquing detail, while a refined intuition for harmonic architecture moulds Conjure’s multitude of influences into coherence and intentionality.

Lasus joins A Lily, Jan Esbra, Will Gardner, Eamon Ivri, Sachi Kobayashi, Dau, Ibukun Sunday, Beqa Ungiadze, Suso Saíz, Menhir, Francsesca Ter-Berg, Dylan Henner, and Pram of Dogs (and others) on Phantom Limb’s Spirituals imprint, a sub-label offering works of high grade, emotive ambient and experimental music from emerging artists from across the world. Conjure is his debut album for Spirituals, following 2024’s self released Marks With Impermanent Meanings.