If you feel at sea in a starless night, Ancient Future might summon charts from the ancestors, fragmented through samples and voltages, a hauntology of modular deconstruction. Bana Haffar, co-founder of Modular on the Spot in LA and Beirut Synthesizer Center in Lebanon, has an essential offering out this month.

We got to know Bana through the Beirut Synthesizer Center project. It’s encouraging that while this album is coming out on Touch in Montreal, Lebanon is seeing a new flurry of musical activities, including the postponed Irtijal Festival — signs of life and resistance.

Sound samples come alive on the album, interwoven with electricity so tightly as to billow, like a sail; every texture envelopes rather than feeling forced into an environment together. It’s splendid.…