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Album
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
In the life of an artist, there is often a defining moment that serves as a crucial point on their c...
Author
Amanda Cook
In Lars von Trier’s film Breaking the Waves, the heroine, after traumatic emotional turmoil, stands...
Author
Jackson Cooper
Inspired by the imagery of the Tarot system of spiritual divination, Christian Kriegeskotte’s album...
Author
Justin Rito
As music enthusiasts, every once in awhile we need an album that challenges our perception of contem...
Author
Angelina Panozzo
As in much of Morton Feldman’s late music, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello (1987) repeats and varies a s...
Author
Jason Charney
If there’s anyone who can pull off a 3-disc compilation of contemporary music for solo cello s...
Author
Joanne Lam
Four hands piano music is the rhinoceros of classical chamber music. Once widespread, it has almost...
Author
Daniel Hautzinger
In Jane Antonia Cornish’s second solo studio album Continuum we get a clearer aural picture of the y...
Author
Christian Gentry
At some point, whether it be for reasons personal, professional, or purely psychological, most compo...
Author
Danny Clay
Composer Martin Bresnick’s Prayers Remain Forever seems to rest at the apex of nihilistic thought an...
Author
Jarrett Goodchild
Riding along the highway at 70 mph, the air conditioning chilling you to the bone, RighteousGIRLS’ n...
Author
Jackson Cooper
The late Ann Southam (1937-2010) is an iconic figure in Canadian composition, and the solo piano cyc...
Author
Bruce A. Russell
