CHXMERAS is the experimental electronic duo of U.K.-born musician Paul Finlay and nêhiyaw/Denesuline multidisciplinary artist Jarrett Martineau.

Using a mix of custom-rigged modular synths, drum machines, live sound processing, field recordings, film samples and more sounds, the two improvise and jam their way to finished pieces heard on the group’s latest EP, Second Sight.

While the album’s five new tracks flow together as distinct individual pieces, such as the leadoff track Sublimation, in performance these tracks are often launch pads to completely different final destinations.

Both Finlay and Martineau have decades of music making to arrive at this kind of improvised beat science, and it makes for a varied and expansive sonic range on the new recording. Since forming in 2023, CHX

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