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New York based Hat Trick Trio (April Clayton, flute, David Wallace, Viola, and Kristi Shade harp) wa...
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Don Clark
Our new track premiere today comes to us from Dublin composer Jonathan Nangle and Crash Ensemble, Ir...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
By fortuitous serendipity one Autumn evening in 1799, British traveler Edward Daniel Clarke, passing...
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Norman Cahn
We’re premiering another track on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN today–this time from saxophonist ...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
The monochromatic cover art of Mariel Roberts’ Cartography is cryptic and arresting: a figure strugg...
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Jason Charney
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
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
Today, we are excited to premiere Ornithology, a track from cello songstress Meaghan Burke‘s s...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
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
Hopscotch is a completely different kind of album experience! After all, it is the result of a total...
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Jarrett Goodchild
In the introduction to his Albany Records CD Passing Through: groove-oriented music, vol. 3, compose...
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Don Clark
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
Continuing down a path that she has been charting with aplomb these last several years (including in...
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Gavin Gamboa
“[Polystylistics] … creates new possibilities for the musico-dramatic embodiment of ‘eternal’ proble...
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Norman Cahn
Eleonore Oppenheim‘s debut album Home (Innova Recordings) is a showcase of diverse composition...
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Jay Derderian
The violinist Francesca Anderegg’s album Wild Cities (on New Focus Recordings) is incredibly earnest...
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Daniel Hautzinger
Eighth Blackbird is an ensemble of big projects and high concepts and their album Hand Eye on Cedill...
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Jason Charney
The German composer Carolina Eyck’s recent Fantasias for Theremin and String Quartet (Butterscotch R...
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Kurt Gottschalk
Finnegan Shanahan is one of the many artists and composers that are trying to further blur the lines...
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Jarrett Goodchild
Flutist Tara Helen O’Connor‘s recent Bridge Records album release, The Way Things Go, is...
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Rebecca Lentjes
“For we who make song must remember that we sing to the ears of others. That the price of being list...
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Megan Ihnen
We have all seen these commercials: the product representative hands a friend or even just a random...
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Don Clark
First Day is New York-based cellist Laura Metcalf‘s solo album debuting ten years into her car...
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Joanne Lam