New Music Friday: Salamanda & Steve Reich

Salamanda is a Seoul-based electronic music duo of Uman Therma (aka Sala) and Yetsuby (aka Manda). Their latest full-fledged outing ashbalkum is characterized by free-flowing synthesized patterns and shape-shifting harmonies, conjuring an ambient soundscape that's playful, psychedelic and trance-inducing all at once and deftly weaving breathy coos and twinkling elements (the xylophone!) that lend it a surreal texture. Stream it below, alongside Steve Reich's Reich/Richter -