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Bearthoven’s Debut Album Trios (Cantaloupe Music)

Bearthoven’s Trios (Cantaloupe Music) is an imaginative and aesthetically well-defined debut album b...
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Tristan McKay
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Libby Larsen’s Lift Me Into Heaven Slowly (Innova Recordings)

Tracey Engleman and Lara Bolton’s Lift Me Into Heaven Slowly (Innova Recordings) takes you on a jour...
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Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
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Track Feature/Exclusive Download: ACME Performs Silent Night

It’s after Thanksgiving, and it’s officially December, which makes it an acceptable time...
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Mario Diaz de Leon and TAK Ensemble Team Up on Sanctuary

For better or worse, Sanctuary is the perfect title for Mario Diaz de Leon’s most recent record. Thi...
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Colin Holter
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Track Premiere: Valentine’s by R WE WHO R WE

Today, we are premiering “Valentine’s” from R WE WHO R WE’s upcoming album &...
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A Retrospective Prequel: Yarn/Wire’s Currents Vol. 0

Currents Vol. 0 is everything a retrospective of an early collaborative project should be, and anyon...
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Kathleen McGowan
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New Morse Code Debut Album Simplicity Itself (New Focus Recordings)

Back in 2011 while they were still students at Yale, cellist Hannah Collins and percussionist Michae...
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Gemma Peacocke
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Scott Wollschleger’s Soft Aberration Conjures Forms from Darkness

New York based composer Scott Wollschleger describes his work, Soft Aberration, in the following man...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
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Du Yun’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Angel’s Bone on VIA Records

Angel’s Bone, awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music, was premiered at the 2016 PROTOTYPE festiva...
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Lauren Ishida
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Gallois Conducts Boulez with the International Contemporary Ensemble

Pierre Boulez led a multi-faceted career, but those of composer and conductor made him a household n...
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Don Clark
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Zero, Minimal Music for 2 Pianos by Jeroen Elfferich (Arabesque)

First, if you’ll allow a brief diversion before I begin this review, I must say it is good to be bac...
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Andrew Lee
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David Kirkland Garner’s Folk-Inspired Dark Holler (New Focus Recordings)

With a distinct aesthetic, David Kirkland Garner’s work Dark Holler (New Focus Recordings) weaves pu...
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Kevin Baldwin
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History Sonified: Qasim Naqvi’s Film Synthesizes Succinct Narratives

Qasim Naqvi’s latest self-release album Film is a compilation of musical material composed for Naeem...
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Jacob Kopcienski
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Sarah Maria Sun’s Exquisite Modern Lied (Mode Records)

Sarah Maria Sun & Jan Philip Schulze’s album modern lied opens with one of the things that is mo...
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Megan Ihnen
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Album Premiere: Mario Diaz de Leon’s Sanctuary (Denovali)

Today’s full album premiere on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN comes from composer Mario Diaz de Leon and...
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The Society for New Music’s Two-Disc Set Music Here & Now (Innova)

New York has always been a hub for creativity–many prominent new music institutions are based...
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Jay Derderian
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Track Premiere: Qasim Naqvi’s Wreckage

Today, we are premiering a track from Qasim Naqvi‘s new album Film, a self release published b...
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Sean Hickey’s A Pacifying Weapon: a New Look at the Concerto

Music relies on listeners’ expectations to present its material—a kind of portable structure t...
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Kathleen McGowan
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The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective (C4) Volume 2: Cornerstones

Founded in 2005 as a democratic collective of composers, conductors, and singers working together to...
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Lauren Ishida
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Nick Photinos Debut Album Petits Artéfacts (New Amsterdam Records)

Just looking at the track times for Petits Artéfacts (New Amsterdam Records), it looks more like a p...
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Jarrett Goodchild
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Album Premiere: Nick Photinos Petits Artéfacts (New Amsterdam)

We have an exciting premiere on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN today: a full-length album! Eighth Blackbird fo...
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The Los Angeles Percussion Quartet Transcends on Beyond

An overexposed photograph of a city skyline, weathered and warped by time. The crisp lines which onc...
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Jacob Kopcienski
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Binary Canary and Guest Improvisers on bc+1

What must it be like when Jeffery Kyle Hutchins (saxophone) and Ted Moore (laptop) invite you to joi...
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Colin Holter
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György Kurtág Box Set: A “Royal Gift” Conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw

“Thanks for this royal gift,” writes György Kurtág (b. 1926) in the album on which Reinb...
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Thea Derks
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