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The Hands Free

Album Premiere: The Hands Free (New Amsterdam Records)

Today, we have a New Amsterdam Records album premiere of the self-titled debut album from the new ac...
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Sybarite5 Outliers

Sybarite5 Celebrates Tenth Anniversary with Outliers (Bright Shiny Things)

In 2016, Sybarite5 launched a crowdfunding effort for a tenth-anniversary recording project. Nearly...
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Nick Stevens
Elizabeth A. Baker--Photo by Charlotte Suarez

Track Premiere: Two Works from Elizabeth A. Baker’s Quadrivium

Today, we have a double track premiere from Quadrivium, the upcoming debut album from new renaissanc...
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Dolce Suono American Canvas

Dolce Suono Trio’s American Canvas: A “Neo-Romantic Snapshot”

I, constantly, must remind myself that when I first heard contemporary music, it was not a headlong...
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James May
Tigue--Photo by Catalina Kulczar

Exclusive Album Stream: Tigue’s Strange Paradise (New Amsterdam/NNA Tapes)

Today, we have an exclusive album stream of Strange Paradise, the sophomore album from Brooklyn-base...
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Crazy: Songs by T. Patrick Carrabré (Winter Wind Records)

Crazy, a song cycle by T. Patrick Carrabré, seeks to explore the line necessary in the creative proc...
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Kevin Baldwin
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Personal Collaborations Abound on Walters and Deyoe New Releases

Music doesn’t have to tell a story. However, when people collaborate to create music, the music ofte...
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Jacob Kopcienski
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Alarm Will Sound Performs Johnson’s Mind Out of Matter on Tzadik

Scott Johnson’s Mind Out of Matter (Tzadik) is, among other things, an atheist oratorio. Most (but n...
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Colin Holter
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RETURN by Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble (Innova)

The Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble’s (GVSUNME) newest album, RETURN, features the...
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Matthew Younglove
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Track Premiere: Invisible Anatomy Performs Facial Polygraph XVIA by Fay Wang

Today’s track premiere comes to us via the composer-performer ensemble Invisible Anatomy: Dani...
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Longleash Passage

Longleash Presents Debut Album Passage on New Focus Recordings

With their debut album Passage (New Focus Recordings, 2017), the members of the string trio Longleas...
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Kathleen McGowan
Erik Lotichus Anaitalrax

Tribute and Legacy: Erik Lotichius’ Anaitalrax (Solaire Records)

“To D. Scarlatti (1685–1757) with apologies”—so composer Erik Lotichius (1929–2015) dedicated his An...
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Jeremiah Cawley
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Portrait Album: Valentin Silvestrov’s Hieroglyphen der Nacht

Music should be so transparent that one can see the bottom and that poetry shimmers through this tra...
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Philipp Rumsch

Track Premiere: Philipp Rumsch Ensemble Performs “Part IV”

Today, and we have a track premiere from German composer, pianist, and sound designer Philipp Rumsch...
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Transient Canvas’ Debut Album Sift Features New England Composers

In the sweepstakes of contemporary music, the marimba and the bass clarinet have—for different reaso...
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Colin Holter
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“A Modern Classic:” Ben Reimer’s Katana of Choice (Red Shift Records)

When I was a lad in the ’60s, one of my favorite LPs was the RCA release Jungle Drums featurin...
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Don Clark
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Brooklyn Rider Conjures Spontaneous Symbols (In a Circle Records)

Peeling away the plastic wrapping around Brooklyn Rider’s Spontaneous Symbols yields a rush of dopam...
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Jillian DeGroot
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In DiEugenio/Solomon’s Into the Silence, a Touching Stucky Tribute

The legacy of the late American composer, conductor and longtime Cornell University professor Steven...
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Andrew Stock
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What’s Old is New: Mackey and Treuting’s Orpheus Unsung

On October 6, 2017, New Amsterdam records released Steven Mackey’s and Jason Treuting’s inaugural co...
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Tracy Monaghan
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The Perfect Nothing Catalog: Conrad Winslow’s Sound Gallery

Conrad Winslow’s impressive debut album of works, The Perfect Nothing Catalog, takes its name from F...
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James May
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Vicki Ray Performs Daniel Lentz’s River of 1,000 Streams (Cold Blue)

Daniel Lentz’s River of 1,000 Streams for piano and electronics was completed in 2016, and recorded...
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Nick Stevens
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Third Coast Percussion’s Kaleidoscopic Album The Book of Keyboards

The CD case of Third Coast Percussion’s new album on New Focus Recordings of music by Philippe Manou...
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Stephanie Boyd
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McGill/McHale Trio Debut Album Portraits (Cedille Records)

In their CD debut released by Cedille Records, Portraits: Works for Flute, Clarinet & Piano, the...
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Clare Monfredo
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BMOP Performs Ann Millikan’s Millikan Symphony on Innova

Ann Millikan’s imaginative and moving Millikan Symphony is an elegy to her brother, Robert C. Millik...
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Danika Paskvan
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