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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
First impressions can tell you a lot. So the adage goes, the first seven seconds of an interview or...
Author
Justin Rito
Martha Mooke’s No Ordinary Window on Monkmusic Records is an amazing look into what is possible with...
Author
Jarrett Goodchild
The sounds and stories of Stacy Garrop’s Mythology Symphony (2007-2013), recently recorded and relea...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
On March 14, 2016, I was sitting in my studio listening to Peter Maxwell Davies’ 10th and fina...
Author
Angelina Panozzo
On February 12, 2016, preeminent contemporary music pioneers eighth blackbird donned their evening w...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Brassy, brazen, unexpected: for experimental-minded people, this is how new music should be. The qua...
Author
Daniel Hautzinger
Lois V Vierk’s (b.1951) latest release on New World Records, Words Fail Me, encapsulates a mus...
Author
Jay Derderian
Ever since Beethoven added a chorus to his Ninth Symphony in 1824, the symphony as a musical form ha...
Author
Don Clark
Qasim Naqvi is probably best known as the drummer for Dawn of Midi, a group that, alongside The Neck...
Author
Danny Clay
There is no one quite like Gabriel Kahane. Straddling the worlds of pop, classical, and musical thea...
Author
Sam Reising
The piano is limited in its conventional mode of playing– pianists can only use their fingers...
Author
Jason Charney
One of the many benefits of reviewing discs for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN is the opportunity to explore t...
Author
Don Clark
“If light comes, I will strike it. If dark comes, I will strike it.” This is the inspiration behind...
Author
Ruth Carver
Explosive tendrils of electricity branching chaotically from the edges of a coin is the image of Éti...
Author
Norman Cahn
Nobody should like this record and neither should I. This collection of string quartet music by Bach...
Author
Kurt Gottschalk
