Bay Area composer, violinist flutist and keyboardist Marielle V Jakobsons has announced her new album The Patterns Lost to Air, out Feb. 20th, 2026. Known for her solo work as well as acclaimed collaborations with Chuck Johnson in Saariselka as well as her early work in Date Palms, The Patterns Lost to Air crystallizes Jakobsons as an exceptionally skillful sound sculptor, a musician who knows the value of patience and control. An artist able to derive maximum impact from her chosen sound elements, the album’s layout is shaped by three primary voices of violin, Fender Rhodes, and Moog Matriarch and was recorded in 2024 in the studio Jakobsons built in Oakland, California, its huge windows overlooking a backyard with olive and palm trees, nesting towhees and hummingbirds.
Along with the album announcement, Jakobsons has shared the poised, balmy track “Warm Spring,” a piece rich with steady strings that radiate with electronic froth atop pensive keyboard chords. Jakobsons has also shared a video for the track crafted by fellow Bay Area artist Fyusha, a sweeping geological survey with warping reflections. Jakobsons says of the track:
“”Warm Spring” is both hopeful for a time of greater warmth and nostalgic for better times, like seeking the Warm Spring and catching glimpses of it while in the late dregs of winter. There is a fragility in the performance which brings out a depth of emotion. Its simplicity in strings, Rhodes, and synth I think creates the defining voice of the album.”
The Patterns lost to Air was also born of personal change for Jakobsons brought on by the health effects of Long Covid, as well as an intentional musical shift from drones to working with scores and written music as she leaned in on her classical training, and harmonic writing. It was more than an evolution, it was a need to redefine who and what she was, down to the molecular level, because she could no longer create music in the same way, which became a galvanizing motif for The Patterns Lost to Air. What happens when we release our grip on familiar patterns – in sound, in self, in memory – and allow them to transform in the air around us? How do we move through that to reinvent and renew?
On The Patterns Lost to Air, each piece emerges from a place of necessary restriction, discovering how limitation itself can become a portal to new territories of sound and meaning. Jakobsons notes, “This renewal and loss and transformative cycle is something I believe transcends the story of the illness.” The pieces make use of loops and slowly shifting patterns that gracefully decay with time, settling steadily from one movement to the next. Through sonic landscapes of Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizers, and strings, the album investigates the space between those patterns like threads of memory, each tone transfiguring and dissolving together.
