With captivating ambition, NTHNL sets the new year aflame with his latest multimedia epic: the narrative-driven concept album and full-length feature film What Kind of World is This? Harmonizing his signature meditative woodwind soundscapes with a bombardment of recontextualized retro sounds, NTHNL’s supreme storytelling and world building have come into their own.

NTHNL’s vision, in sound and picture, executes a delicate balance of tranquility and turmoil; the recordings playfully pairing serene flute melodies against bombastic percussive programming just as the album’s visual manifestation juxtaposes natural handheld footage with crude 3D-figures, DOS-inspired landscapes, and exaggerated digital clutter. The result is earnest, absurd, and colored by NTHNL’s signature brand of charm & mirth.

Having produced electronic and acoustic music in a variety of contexts since 2012, NTHNL’s work currently straddles both healing and contemporary creative spheres, leading regular sound baths as well as collaborative concerts. NTHNL first joined Youngbloods in 2023 by recording Movement in The Tunnel on the tracks of the NYC subway system. Since then NTHNL has been steadily expanding his unique style. In 2024 he released Ontogenesis, the third album in his Tranquility Studies series, combining electronic binaural frequencies with performances on a variety of instruments to create soundscapes that are at once calming, poetic and healing. Most recently NTHNL released Awareness of the Wind Within with acclaimed percussionist Sphente, combining gongs and winds into immersive long-form improvisations. His mastery of the flute, piano, and brass instruments has been featured in projects by Cola Boyy, Laura Wolf, and Liturgy, and met with wide critical acclaim that describes his productions as “genre-defying” and transportive.