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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
Qasim Naqvi--Photo by Emily Keegin

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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Bells for the South Side: the AACM and Its Ongoing Impact

The new album Bells for the South Side, released by ECM Records on June 16, 2017, features multi-ins...
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Alexander Rothe
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Hat Trick Trio Debut Album Garden of Joys and Sorrows

New York based Hat Trick Trio (April Clayton, flute, David Wallace, Viola, and Kristi Shade harp) wa...
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Don Clark
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Track Premiere: Jonathan Nangle’s Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds

Our new track premiere today comes to us from Dublin composer Jonathan Nangle and Crash Ensemble, Ir...
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Era by Era: Norwegian Radio Orchestra’s Variations Over Variations

By fortuitous serendipity one Autumn evening in 1799, British traveler Edward Daniel Clarke, passing...
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Norman Cahn
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Track Premiere: Jonah Parzen-Johnson Too Many Dreams

We’re premiering another track on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN today–this time from saxophonist ...
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Mariel Roberts Expertly Navigates Four Premieres on Cartography

The monochromatic cover art of Mariel Roberts’ Cartography is cryptic and arresting: a figure strugg...
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Jason Charney
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Composer Collective Albums: Object Collection

This is the second installment of a two-part review series. Both reviews take a look at recent relea...
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Jay Derderian
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Composer Collective Albums: Ensemble Pamplemousse

This is the first installment of a two-part review series. Both reviews take a look at recent releas...
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Jay Derderian
Meaghan Burke--Photo by Garfield Trummer

Track Premiere: Ornithology by Meaghan Burke

Today, we are excited to premiere Ornithology, a track from cello songstress Meaghan Burke‘s s...
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Løkkegaard’s SOUND x SOUND Vinyl Box Set Transcends in Form and Concept

Imagine, if you will, the sound of a bell. What is it that you are hearing? If the sound is replicat...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
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Experimental Opera Hopscotch on The Industry Records

Hopscotch is a completely different kind of album experience! After all, it is the result of a total...
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Jarrett Goodchild
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Gernot Wolfgang Passing Through on Albany Records

In the introduction to his Albany Records CD Passing Through: groove-oriented music, vol. 3, compose...
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Don Clark
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Meredith Monk Speaks “On Behalf of Nature” (ECM Records)

In her liner notes to On Behalf of Nature (ECM), Meredith Monk cites poet Gary Snyder’s essay “Write...
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Jason Charney
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