Highlighting the transporting, mystifying, and beguiling world of experimental, instrumental, and improvisational rock music, the Crescendo Music Festival - in its fourth year - has both expanded its reach and sound palette for its latest audial feast - a diverse lineup features a wide array of characters and bands from around the globe this year, taking over both Yuyintown Basement and Cube in C-Park. Highlights include London’s Five the Hierophant - where psychedelic free jazz meets doom metal - as well as Indonesian ‘primal-core’ duo KUNTARI - a wild, dark, intense mix of primitive voices, animal mating, Indonesian tribal rhythms, and dark ambience. The legendary khoomei renegade, Sainkho Namtchylak, a female singer whose voice spans seven octaves and who has used her gift to take the traditional music of Tuva and bring it into a new era, will also be on hand. Utopian Daymare - the sprawling prog rock outfit led by Inner Mongolian musician Hai Qing and guitarist Li Qing- join in on the fun too, alongside Yang Lingyuan, a composer and performer currently residing in The Hague, whose music revolves around microtones, complexity, and electronic acoustics, while incorporating improvisational elements of jazz. If that wasn’t enough, some of Shanghai’s finest will be on hand - including psychedelic wayfarers Khunathi, hefty instrumental rockers An Corporation, and rock and roll free divers Handycam - on something of a hot streak at the moment. This lineup is a beast - highly recommend.