TENGGER new album ‘SKY’ out TODAY on Guruguru Brain - listen now. To play Le Guess Who? in November.

TENGGER - New album ‘SKY’   out TODAY via Guruguru Brain - Listen in full here - To play Le Guess Who? Festival in November

Photo credit: TENGGER    Today, TENGGER release their blissed out and expansive new album ‘SKY’ on Guruguru Brain. The album release follows the recent announcement that the band will play this year's Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht, with more European live dates to follow soon.   TENGGER have always existed in motion. Formed by Pan-Asian couple Itta and Marqido, the travelling musical family have spent the past decade creating a singular body of work that blurs the lines between psychedelic, New Age, and drone, guided as much by intuition and ritual as by composition. Their music unfolds through voice, synths, and electronics, often shaped by the rhythms of travel and annual pilgrimages, with live performances that prioritise immersion, repetition, and shared sensory experience.   Originally performing under the name “10,” the project evolved into TENGGER following the birth of their son, RAAI, who became an active performing member from a young age. For years, the group’s identity was inseparable from this familial dynamic. Now, as RAAI begins to step into his own artistic path, TENGGER enter a new phase. His presence remains part of the project’s fabric, but ‘SKY’ marks a moment of quiet transformation. What was once an outward expansion folds gently inward, becoming something more distilled, more precise, “part of an ongoing cycle of expansion and contraction, like the breathing of a universe.”   Listen to 'SKY' album in full: Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music The title itself holds dual meaning. “Tengger” signifies an “unlimited expanse of sky” in Mongolian and a “vast sea” in Hungarian, and on ‘SKY’, that sense of boundlessness becomes both subject and method. Rather than approaching the record as a collection of individual tracks, it was conceived as a continuous sonic environment, “a kind of sound installation” that unfolds gradually over time. Developed across two years between their home studio in Seoul and moments captured on the road, the album incorporates field recordings gathered during travel, grounding its more ethereal qualities in lived experience.   Speaking on the album and its lead single "Blue", TENGGER comment: “We were interested in how the music could touch a state of perception or awakeness, something more subtle and expansive than emotion. During the making of the album we spent time each day in close attention to our surroundings, especially the sky, and responded intuitively to what we sensed and received. The process felt less like constructing something, and more like allowing something to unfold.”   If earlier TENGGER releases often leaned toward emotional resonance, ‘SKY’ shifts its focus toward perception itself. During the making of the album, the group also experienced the loss of someone close within their circle. Rather than shaping the record around this absence, it remained embedded within the process, gradually shifting the work toward a sense of connection that moves beyond clear distinctions not only between presence and absence, but into a continuous field of relation. That feeling lingers throughout the record, not as narrative, but as atmosphere.   In this way, ‘SKY’ doesn’t seek to tell a story so much as open a space. The aim is not to evoke a fixed emotional response, but to invite a heightened awareness, a sense that the sky is not simply something to be observed, but something that connects us to a much larger whole. As TENGGER move into this new chapter, what remains is their core instinct: to listen, to respond, and to create music that invites others to do the same.   ‘SKY’ track list: 1. Blue 2. Celeste 3 Atmosphere 4. Stellar 5. Indigo 6. O ‘SKY’ album artwork (click for high res):   Links: Instagram / Facebook / X / Youtube / Bandcamp / Spotify