Category
Album
Hopscotch is a completely different kind of album experience! After all, it is the result of a total...
Author
Jarrett Goodchild
In the introduction to his Albany Records CD Passing Through: groove-oriented music, vol. 3, compose...
Author
Don Clark
In her liner notes to On Behalf of Nature (ECM), Meredith Monk cites poet Gary Snyder’s essay “Write...
Author
Jason Charney
Continuing down a path that she has been charting with aplomb these last several years (including in...
Author
Gavin Gamboa
“[Polystylistics] … creates new possibilities for the musico-dramatic embodiment of ‘eternal’ proble...
Author
Norman Cahn
Eleonore Oppenheim‘s debut album Home (Innova Recordings) is a showcase of diverse composition...
Author
Jay Derderian
The violinist Francesca Anderegg’s album Wild Cities (on New Focus Recordings) is incredibly earnest...
Author
Daniel Hautzinger
Eighth Blackbird is an ensemble of big projects and high concepts and their album Hand Eye on Cedill...
Author
Jason Charney
The German composer Carolina Eyck’s recent Fantasias for Theremin and String Quartet (Butterscotch R...
Author
Kurt Gottschalk
Finnegan Shanahan is one of the many artists and composers that are trying to further blur the lines...
Author
Jarrett Goodchild
Flutist Tara Helen O’Connor‘s recent Bridge Records album release, The Way Things Go, is...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
“For we who make song must remember that we sing to the ears of others. That the price of being list...
Author
Megan Ihnen
We have all seen these commercials: the product representative hands a friend or even just a random...
Author
Don Clark
First Day is New York-based cellist Laura Metcalf‘s solo album debuting ten years into her car...
Author
Joanne Lam
In February of 2016, Third Coast Percussion (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and David Sk...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
The Yucatán peninsula in southeast Mexico bristles with thorny jungle, and its porous, pock-marked l...
Author
Gavin Gamboa
You can try listening to Lesley Flanigan’s album while doing something else, but it won’t work. Hede...
Author
Lana Norris
From the 17th to the early-19th century, one might liberally classify a composer and his or her work...
Author
Norman Cahn
Someone has probably coined a term for the style of music showcased on the London Symphony Orchestra...
Author
Daniel Hautzinger
Works for Orchestra is Mason Bates‘ latest album released under San Francisco Symphony‘s...
Author
Joanne Lam
For those who fear an impending “rise of the machines,” REACT (Ravello Records) offers some reassura...
Author
Norman Cahn
Rarely do such distinct musical voices come together to make a perfect hybrid as Ensemble Dal Niente...
Author
Jason Charney
Upon a first listening, Ludivoco Einaudi’s Elements begins as a promising journey through an enticin...
Author
Christian Gentry
