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Hub New Music and Kojiro Umezaki -- Courtesy of Soka Performing Arts Center

On New Album, Hub New Music and Kojiro Umezaki Connect through Distance

At the conceptual core of a distance, intertwined is the notion of storytelling, with traditional fo...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Scott McLaughlin -- Courtesy of artist

Scott McLaughlin’s “we are environments for each other” Centers the Beauty of Group Creativity

we are environments for each other is a breathtaking new release nearly 10 years in the making that...
Author
Michelle Hromin
Juri Seo -- Photo by Il Kwon Cho

Juri Seo’s “Toy Store” Plays Upon Memory, Nostalgia, and Childhood

When I was a kid in the 90s, my parents owned a toy store. It definitely had its perks (collecting P...
Author
Tristan McKay
Decoda -- Photo by Kevin Kinzley Photography

On Debut Album, Decoda Shows That Expressions of Revelry Come in All Manifestations

On their self-titled debut album, Decoda brings attractive style and artistry to an eclectic mix of...
Author
Dalanie Harris
Gelsey Bell and Erin Rogers -- Photo by AnnAnn Puttithanasorn

With “Skylighght,” Gelsey Bell and Erin Rogers Embody the Joy of Experimental Research

In the wake of a recent solar eclipse, contemplating light, its path, and our place in it just feels...
Author
Connie Li
James Díaz -- Photo by artist

In Enigmatic Debut Album, Composer James Díaz Recasts Violin as Electronic Instrument

Picture an electrically charged violin that buzzes and swells as it rotates inside a compressed magn...
Author
Esteban Meneses
MIZU -- Photo by Dan Silver

MIZU Maps Terra Incognita on “Forest Scenes”

MIZU is an artist who knows how to distill the mosaic process of defining oneself. On her debut reco...
Author
Yaz Lancaster
Ekmeles -- Photo courtesy of the artists

Ekmeles’ Sophomore Album is a Striking Display of Technique and Wild Experimentation

We Live the Opposite Daring, the sophomore album from the New York-based vocal sextet Ekmeles, is im...
Author
Sofía Rocha
William Brittelle -- Photo by David A. Gray

On William Brittelle’s “Alive in the Electric Snow Dream,” Nostalgia Meets Sci-Fi Dystopia

There are no overt samples or references to other works in William Brittelle’s Alive in the Electric...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Nathalie Joachim -- Photo by Erin Patrice O'Brien

Nathalie Joachim Delves into Heritage and Cultural Memory on “Ki moun ou ye”

On Ki moun ou ye, Grammy-nominated musician and composer Nathalie Joachim chronicles the beauty of s...
Author
Dalanie Harris
Yaz Lancaster -- Photo by Felix Walworth

Yaz Lancaster’s Thoughtful Curation of “comp.01” Unifies Wide-Ranging Aesthetics for a Common Cause

comp.01 accomplishes a lot of things that compilation albums often struggle to do: it is unified by...
Author
Tristan McKay
Joseph Bohigian -- Photo by Raffi Paul

Joseph Bohigian Connects Armenian Traditions to Diasporic Culture on Debut Album

Composer Joseph Bohigian’s debut album The Water Has Found its Crack is centered around his engageme...
Author
Clover Nahabedian
Cheng² Duo -- Photo by Andrej Grilc

Cheng² Duo Explores the Intersection of Asian Identity and Western Classical Music on “Portrait”

Following three albums full of well-trod classical repertoire for cello and piano, Cheng² Duo’s Port...
Author
Forrest Howell
André 3000 -- Photo by Kai Reagan

André 3000’s “New Blue Sun” Models How Classical Music Can Engage New Audiences

Artists often comment on the pressure they feel from fans to produce new music and bring freshness a...
Author
Katie Brown
Linda Catlin Smith -- Photo by Claire Harvie

Linda Catlin Smith Revels in Introverted Confidence with Sensuous, Idiosyncratic Album ‘Dark Flower’

One of my favorite aspects of autumn is the sensation of being wrapped in a warm jacket or bundled u...
Author
Sofía Rocha
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Track Premiere: The Angelica Sanchez Nonet Performs “Run”

“Hearing sounds of creatures I don’t recognize makes my imagination run wild,” writes pianist...
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Matana Roberts -- Photo by Anna Niedermeier

In New Album, Matana Roberts Explores Black Ancestry through Probing Narrative Art

Matana Roberts’ jubilantly experimental new album Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden deftly weave...
Author
A. Kori Hill
Third Coast Percussion -- Photo by Saverio Truglia

Third Coast Percussion Brings Unrestrained Intensity to World Premieres in “Between Breaths”

Third Coast Percussion’s Between Breaths is another fresh and thought-provoking album in what has be...
Author
Forrest Howell
Annika Socolofsky and ~Nois -- Photo by Xuan

Annika Socolofsky Tugs at the Complexities of Womanhood on “I Tell You Me”

“Sugar and spice, and everything nice. That’s what little girls are made of…” or so goes the well-kn...
Author
Lauren Ishida
jaimie branch -- Photo by Ben Semisch, Courtesy of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

jaimie branch Issues Joyous Rallying Cry on Final Fly or Die Album

Last August, jaimie “Breezy” branch’s death was met with an outpouring of love. The 39-year-old comp...
Author
Clover Nahabedian
Lawrence Brownlee -- Photo by Zakiyah Caldwell Burroughs

Lawrence Brownlee Honors the Ethos of the Harlem Renaissance Through Song

The Harlem Renaissance was a time of artistic and intellectual revival for Black Americans in early-...
Author
Katie Brown
The Sphinx Virtuosi -- Photo by Scott Jackson

Sphinx Virtuosi Release Powerful, Celebratory Debut with ‘Songs of Our Times’

Released July 28 on Deutsche Grammophon, the Sphinx Virtuosi’s Songs for Our Times is sprawling, con...
Author
Sofía Rocha
Nite Bjuti (Val Jeanty, Mimi Jones, and Candice Hoyes) -- Photo by Maciek Jasik

Nite Bjuti Documents the Breadth of Black Womanhood on Fully Improvised Debut Album

In 1945, a letter from Zora Neale Hurston to W.E.B. DuBois called for a new cemetery for notable Bla...
Author
Dalanie Harris
ShoutHouse--Photo by Brandon Ilaw

Track Premiere: ShoutHouse Performs “Shiny Objects” by Will Healy

The strumming acoustic guitar and swelling strings that open “Shiny Objects” establish a...
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