Step into an interstellar kosmische zone the likes the Capital has never seen to launch Summerhall’s amazing musical programme this August.

The haunting and utterly compelling Scottish Album of the Year ‘bones you have thrown me and blood I’ve spilled’ comes to Summerhall’s Dissection Room. Regarded as one of Scotland’s best-kept secrets; Kathryn Joseph’s voice possesses the other-worldly quality of Joanna Newsom and Björk.

Est. 2010, Soulsville is Edinburgh's home of deep funk, latin rhythms and rugged blues, a one-stop-shop for those who have an ear for a groove and a desire to dance into the wee hours

Stripped down and acoustic, the better to hear the richness and maturity of her voice, her live show has been honed by hundreds of nights onstage.

As evidenced by last year’s most recent album ‘Nocturnes’, his rich, open-hearted blues and soul is sometimes born of hard times, but never less than unfailingly honest.

Orkestra del Sol, a joyous reinvention of global brassy street music, has left a trail of pummeled dance floors across continents - including India, Australia, China and a host of European countries.

Back, Back, BACK and bouncier than ever, the exclusive vinyl club night for the more fully-fledged music fan returns for a one-off, late night festival special.

WHITE are a hurtling juggernaut of synth stabs, razor-sharp guitars and even sharper attire.

Presented by Nothing Ever Happens Here in association with our friends from the Bongo Club’s night Soulsville, Rhythm Machine is a regular favourite here throughout the year.

In March 2016 Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, guitars in hand, boarded a Los Angeles-bound train at Chicago’s Union Station looking to reconnect with the culture of railroad travel and the music it inspired.

To mark sound artist and producer Mark Fell's exhibition in Summerhall's Machine Shop, Fell curates an evening of sound and music performance – dense, austere and laconic – perfectly suited to the ambience of the Dissection Room.

Richard Dawson brings his wonderfully shambling exterior, tales of pineapples and underpants, ghosts of family members and cats to Summerhall’s Dissection Room.

One of post-dubstep’s bright lights, Mount Kimbie come to Summerhall’s Dissection Room for a genre-evading late-night DJ set, drawing from a thick soup of influences that leaves them standing out as something genuinely special.

The Soul Foundation crew return to the Dissection Room with an explosive live set of Motown classics along with new renditions of Northern Soul dance floor escapisms.

Broken Records bring their expansive, soaring mix of elation and melancholy to Summerhall’s Dissection Room, with the raw energy of Springsteen and the drama of Arcade Fire.

Montreal-based Sunns have just released Hold Still, their third studio album. It’s an eerily beautiful, meticulously played suite of music that embraces opposites, with songs which are simultaneously psychedelic, but austere; sensual, but cold; organic, but electronic; tense sometimes to the brink of mania, but always retaining perfect control.

Grandaddy formed in Modesto, CA in 1992, and consisted of Jason Lytle, Aaron Burtch, Tim Dryden, Jim Fairchild and Kevin Garcia.

Putting that group on hiatus to concentrate on their solo careers, this year has seen Morby release ‘Singing Saw’, his third album of thoughtful and delicately anthemic indie-rock introspections.

Since 2006, Brian Shimkovitz’s Awesome Tapes From Africa blog has been shedding light on obscure and wonderful sounds from across the continent.

ESKA’s own and unique sound has arisen and taken flight with her highly anticipated solo self-titled debut, nominated for the 2015 Mercury Prize.

Mediterraneo, along with the good people at Nothing Ever Happens Here, are bringing Africa, Cuba and Southern Italy crashing into Summerhall for a huge festival edition of their world music concert series.

Withered Hand is the musical output of Edinburgh based Dan Willson, a feature of the city's DIY music scene for many years.

Not jazz, not a trio and not entirely Scottish, The National Jazz Trio of Scotland are Bill Wells (piano laptop), Aby Vulliamy (vocals, viola), Kate Sugden (vocals, marimba), and Gerard Black (vocals).

One-off night curated by Firecracker Recordings, the Edinburgh label with international reach and acclaim, specialising in oddball house, techno and electronics.