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The Ruins of Beverast is Alexander von Meilenwald’s solo project, formed in Aachen, Germany in 2003. Seven full-lengths in, he named the latest after enkoimesis, the ancient Greek practice of sleeping inside a temple to receive oracular dreams that a priest then had to translate. The parallel is the key to everything his music does. Von Meilenwald answered our questions about the record, the ritual, and twenty-three years of making music that answers only to itself.

Bir Tawil is a strip of desert on the Egypt-Sudan border that neither country claims. In 2013, a musician from Bordeaux, Xavier Godart, named his solo project after it. The logic turned out to run deeper than the name. Dua Min, Birtawil’s 2026 album, is a record about what happens when unclaimed territory finally gets a structure imposed on it: drum machines, live performance, industrial coldness, and six tracks in Esperanto that move from feeling to death. Godart on autonomy, solitude, and the cost of friction.