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Leah Asher Retreat Into Afters

Leah Asher’s Retreat Into Afters (Scripts Records) Explores Acoustic Improvisation

Leah Asher’s new album Retreat Into Afters (Scripts Records) was created at the end of a three-year...
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Jarrett Goodchild
Danielle Dahl Loosening Orion's Belt

Danielle Dahl’s Debut Solo Album Loosening Orion’s Belt (abstract tits)

Norwegian composer Danielle Dahl’s first solo album, Loosening Orion’s Belt, was released by abstrac...
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Tracy Monaghan
Miolina

Miolina’s Self-Titled Debut Album: the Sonic Embodiment of Personhood

Miolina’s self-titled debut album, released on Composers Concordance Records in February 2018, is a...
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Jillian DeGroot
Olivia de Prato Streya

Eclectic and Multifaceted: Olivia De Prato’s Streya has something for everyone

Against a clean white background, vibrantly-technicolored, jaggedly-arranged rectangles and triangle...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
Nadia Shpachenko Quotations and Homages

Nadia Shpachenko’s Quotations and Homages (Reference Recordings)

When a new CD to review arrives from ICIYL Central, the first thing I do is put in the player and th...
Author
Don Clark
Jonah Sirota

Track Premiere: Jonah and Nadia Sirota Perform Nico Muhly’s Lean

Today’s track premiere features Jonah and Nadia Sirota performing Nico Muhly‘s Lean, one...
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Duo Noire

Album Premiere: Duo Noire’s Night Triptych (New Focus Recordings)

Today, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN premieres Night Triptych, the latest album from ​American ​classical ​gu...
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Lindsey Goodman Returning to Heights Unseen

From Breath to Sound: Lindsey Goodman’s Returning to Heights Unseen

The forceful, breathy sounds that initiate flutist Lindsey Goodman’s newest release, Returning to He...
Author
Jeremiah Cawley
Dorothy Hindman Tightly Wound

Dorothy Hindman’s Tightly Wound: Music for Strings (innova Recordings)

Dorothy Hindman is Associate Professor of Composition at the Frost School of Music at the University...
Author
Kathleen McGowan
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Fraufeld Promotes Female Composers on Viennese Label Freifeld Tontraeger

Fraufeld–a long-term initiative to promote female composers created by pianist Verena Zeiner a...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Elizabeth A. Baker Quadrivium

Elizabeth A. Baker Debuts with Quadrivium on Aerocade Music

In a sprawling solo release of fourteen tracks ranging in length from a half-minute to nearly half a...
Author
Andrew Stock
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...
Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
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