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Martha Mooke’s No Ordinary Window on Monkmusic Records

Martha Mooke’s No Ordinary Window on Monkmusic Records is an amazing look into what is possible with...
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Jarrett Goodchild
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Stacy Garrop’s Mythology Symphony & Other Orchestral Works

The sounds and stories of Stacy Garrop’s Mythology Symphony (2007-2013), recently recorded and relea...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Peter Maxwell Davies’ Symphony No. 10 Explores Emotion and Mortality

On March 14, 2016, I was sitting in my studio listening to Peter Maxwell Davies’ 10th and fina...
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Angelina Panozzo
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eighth blackbird’s Filament Attracts Grammy and MacArthur Awards

On February 12, 2016, preeminent contemporary music pioneers eighth blackbird donned their evening w...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
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loadbang’s Lungpowered: New, Confident, and Weird

Brassy, brazen, unexpected: for experimental-minded people, this is how new music should be. The qua...
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Daniel Hautzinger
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Beyond Language: Lois V Vierk’s Words Fail Me

Lois V Vierk’s (b.1951) latest release on New World Records, Words Fail Me, encapsulates a mus...
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Jay Derderian
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Jeffrey Leiser The Summit on Discovery Music & Vision

Ever since Beethoven added a chorus to his Ninth Symphony in 1824, the symphony as a musical form ha...
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Don Clark
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Qasim Naqvi’s Preamble (NNA Tapes)

Qasim Naqvi is probably best known as the drummer for Dawn of Midi, a group that, alongside The Neck...
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Danny Clay
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Kahane’s The Fiction Issue: Loss, Love, and Distant Memories

There is no one quite like Gabriel Kahane. Straddling the worlds of pop, classical, and musical thea...
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Sam Reising
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Introducing bitKlavier: Dan Trueman’s Nostalgic Synchronic

The piano is limited in its conventional mode of playing– pianists can only use their fingers...
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Jason Charney
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Grief and Reconciliation: Patrick Castillo’s The Quality of Mercy (Innova)

One of the many benefits of reviewing discs for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN is the opportunity to explore t...
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Don Clark
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Striking Light, Striking Dark: Striking Words to a Zen Drum

“If light comes, I will strike it. If dark comes, I will strike it.” This is the inspiration behind...
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Ruth Carver
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The Boreal: The Music of Elliott Sharp

Explosive tendrils of electricity branching chaotically from the edges of a coin is the image of Éti...
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Norman Cahn
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Keller Quartett presents Cantante e tranquillo (ECM Records)

Nobody should like this record and neither should I. This collection of string quartet music by Bach...
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Kurt Gottschalk
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Virtuosic Versatility: Meerenai Shim’s Pheromone (Aerocade Records)

In the life of an artist, there is often a defining moment that serves as a crucial point on their c...
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Amanda Cook
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you of all things Transcends Words in Heavenly Mixes

In Lars von Trier’s film Breaking the Waves, the heroine, after traumatic emotional turmoil, stands...
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Jackson Cooper
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Christian Kriegeskotte’s Le Mat for Solo Piano

Inspired by the imagery of the Tarot system of spiritual divination, Christian Kriegeskotte’s album...
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Justin Rito
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Torus by Yotam Haber: Adventurous and Eclectic Sounds

As music enthusiasts, every once in awhile we need an album that challenges our perception of contem...
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Angelina Panozzo
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Morton Feldman’s Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello on Bridge Records

As in much of Morton Feldman’s late music, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello (1987) repeats and varies a s...
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Jason Charney
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Matt Haimovitz Presents Orbit: Music for Solo Cello (1945-2014)

If there’s anyone who can pull off a 3-disc compilation of contemporary music for solo cello s...
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Joanne Lam
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ZOFO Plays Terry Riley on Sono Luminus

Four hands piano music is the rhinoceros of classical chamber music. Once widespread, it has almost...
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Daniel Hautzinger
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Chamber Music for Strings: Jane Antonia Cornish’s Continuum

In Jane Antonia Cornish’s second solo studio album Continuum we get a clearer aural picture of the y...
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Christian Gentry
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Revamping the String Quartet: Matthew Barnson’s Sibyl Tones

At some point, whether it be for reasons personal, professional, or purely psychological, most compo...
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Danny Clay
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“Dreams and Yearnings:” Martin Bresnick’s Prayers Remain Forever

Composer Martin Bresnick’s Prayers Remain Forever seems to rest at the apex of nihilistic thought an...
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Jarrett Goodchild
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