Ambiances Magnétiques presents the second album by Toninato & Thiessen, which marks a significant departure from their acclaimed debut. The Space Between Us was very much an acoustic duet album that interwove Ida Toninato’s saxophones with Jennifer Thiessen’s viola; the forthcoming Dream of Heat (out 13 February on vinyl and digitally) enriches their core instrumentation with synthesizers and, above all, their voices to produce a collection of dark, hypnotic songs that trace winter’s cycle of death and rebirth. With Jason Sharp on synthesizers and as producer, these six tracks take on a rich orchestral quality that blends various currents of experimentalism with exploratory songwriting in a way that might appeal to listeners of Bark Psychosis, late-period Scott Walker, Nico and various artists on the Constellation Records roster.