ABOUT LUKE MOMBREA, DARREN SNG, AND LEVENT ALTUNTAŞ
Open Field brings together three composers whose careers span film, television and the concert hall.
Luke Mombrea, based in Oakland, won a 2025 Ivor Novello Award for his composition Black Gold. His music has been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and presented at the Barbican Centre, Lincoln Center, the Venice Biennale and LACMA, and he has worked as an orchestrator on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Loki and the Final Fantasy series.
Darren Sng is a London-based composer, orchestrator and conductor. He is a recipient of the AVID Award for Excellence in Composition, earned a BAFTA Yugo nomination for Orchids: Darwin's Conundrum, and scored the Sundance-winning documentary Birds of War.
Levent Altuntaş, based in Hamburg, holds a master's degree from the Royal College of Music and is a John Barry Scholarship recipient. He has orchestrated for ITV's Endeavour and Disney's The Acolyte and worked with orchestras across Europe.
Thank you for supporting LUKE MOMBREA, DARREN SNG, AND LEVENT ALTUNTAŞ during this Grammy® season.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING
"Open Field" by Luke Mombrea, Darren Sng and Levent Altuntaş is one of our strongest New Age/Ambient releases of 2026 (and perhaps ever). Together, they set a new standard in ambient music by creating a one-track continuous masterpiece inspired by live improvisation, seamlessly weaving field recordings from three continents. The depth and quality of this recording is stunning and is absolutely deserving of Grammy recognition.
Rod Linnum,
VP Artist and Label Services - Downtown Music
A seamless blend of all three composers talents that feels like one of the most organic albums I’ve heard in a long time.
Ananda Chatterjee,
Orchestrator, London Contemporary Orchestra
What they're saying
"Open Field" by Luke Mombrea, Darren Sng and Levent Altuntaş is one of our strongest New Age/Ambient releases of 2026 (and perhaps ever). Together, they set a new standard in ambient music by creating a one-track continuous masterpiece inspired by live improvisation, seamlessly weaving field recordings from three continents. The depth and quality of this recording is stunning and is absolutely deserving of Grammy recognition.
Rod Linnum,
VP Artist and Label Services - Downtown Music
If you are searching for something entirely different from the new age genre, then Oxum, the latest track from Aco Takenaka, will satisfy that need. The track is from her forthcoming album Ancient Seeds, due out in October.
Although she is singing in another language and you may not understand her, the vocals are mesmerizing and soothing as can be.
Keith “MuzikMan” Hannaleck,
NAMR Founder
A beautiful pop hymn to the African goddess of Fertility, female power and fresh waters – sung and chanted clearly and cleanly by Aco, through which the listener truly feels the blessing of a goddess.
Carman Moore, Internationally acclaimed composer, professor, and former Village Voice music critic
Oxum is a breath of sonic fresh air – confident, soulful, and filled with peaceful energy. There is sweetness and soul in her vocal performance. The wonderful arrangement and production enhances her voice and the song. It’s now on my ‘Peaceful’ playlist to listen again and again.
Peter Bliss, Songwriter, Producer, Former Director of New York Songwriters Circle
ABOUT OPEN FIELD
Open Field is one continuous piece from start to finish, created by Luke Mombrea, Darren Sng and Levent Altuntaş, composers from film and orchestral music who bring the precision of the score to an album built on listening. Each track began as a carefully composed starting point: an instrumental part, a synthesizer line or a field recording. The three composers then came together at the prestigious LSO St Luke's in London, where they improvised in response and recorded the material together.
Field recordings from Oakland's redwood forest, Germany's Black Forest, Oslo and the streets of Singapore are treated as compositional material rather than backdrop. Birdsong, swaying trees and the hum of insects move through piano, strings and slowly evolving synthesizer textures, with the detail and restraint of seasoned orchestral writers.
Open Field is a fresh and deeply human listening experience, where composition, improvisation and place become one language.