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Weather Duo

Music I’m Buying: From Field to Platter by Weather Duo

Music I'm Buying is a series dedicated to reviewing albums that are not sent gratis to I Care if You...
Author
Andrew Lee
Icebreaker

Icebreaker with BJ Cole: Apollo

Whenever the key parts of a sentence are the words “Brian Eno” and “new music ensemble,” I cringe a...
Author
Neal Markowski
Ethel - Heavy

Ethel: Heavy

Since its beginnings in the late 1990s, the string quartet Ethel has grown to become a powerful forc...
Author
Sam Reising
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The Re-(w)Rite of Spring: Darryl Brenzel and Mobtown Modern Big Band

As the Rite of Spring approaches 100 years of public life, interest in Stravinsky’s masterpiece is s...
Author
Richard Barnard
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Joel Frederiksen and Ensemble Phoenix Munich: Requiem for a Pink Moon, An Elizabethan Tribute to Nick Drake

On Joel Frederiksen’s Requiem for a Pink Moon, an Elizabethan Tribute to Nick Drake, selections from...
Author
Elias Blumm
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Truly Nonclassical: Gabriel Prokofiev and Peter Gregson’s Cello Multitracks

Nonclassical are an organisation with big plans for music’s future, intent on taking the “classical”...
Author
Paul Kilbey
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Evan Ziporyn’s “Big Grenadilla / Mumbai”

Evan Ziporyn's new recording, Big Grenadilla /Mumbai, manages to be futuristic while playing with tr...
Author
Evan Burke
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Alejandro Rutty’s Conscious Sleepwalker: fast forward tango

Alejandro Rutty’s new album The Conscious Sleepwalker is both a tour de force of the tango form,  a...
Author
Matt Weber
Duo Orfeo - Photo by Tristan Chambers

Duo Orfeo’s I sing the body electric: the charge of the soul

“They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them…” In the poem “I Sing the Body Electr...
Author
Elias Blumm

The Summer 2012 Mixtape is out!

I am very pleased to announce that the Summer 2012 Mixtape is out! It is completely free and just a...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
counter)induction

Group Theory by counter)induction

CDs are not live music. CDs have to compete for our attention in ways that concerts never do. They n...
Author
Andrew Lee
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Richard Beaudoin’s Microtimings

Theory and aesthetics in new music are two very, very different things. There’s what goes in to a pi...
Author
Paul Kilbey
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Cornelius Dufallo’s Journaling: Solo Violin, Seven Unique Composers

Violinist Cornelius Dufallo’s new CD Journaling presents the music of six contemporary composers liv...
Author
David Pearson

Trio Elego’s Cosmopolitan: Music by Glinka and Schnyder

The young German musicians in Trio Elego give fine presentations of music by Daniel Schnyder and Mik...
Author
David Pearson

Erdem Helvacioğlu, Eleven Short Stories

Let's play a word association game. If I say, "prepared piano," many of you might think "John Cage."...
Author
Andrew Lee
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Aeolus Quartet, Many-Sided Music

You might credit Leonard Berstein for inspiring this CD, who described the "many-sidedness" of Ameri...
Author
Andrew Lee
Ilona-Then-Bergh-Michael-Schaefer-Wen-Sinn-Yang-Leonid-Sabaneev-Piano-Trios

Sabaneev’s Tumultuous Piano Trios Finally Get Their Day in Court

There are rare moments in history when political and social upheaval come together with artistic inn...
Author
David Pearson
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Kickin’ It Old School: Brooklyn Rider’s 7 Steps

The versatile Brooklyn Rider String Quartet is one of a number of chamber groups seeking to take the...
Author
David Pearson

DYGONG – The E·Sessions

Question: When is a group not a group? Answer: Don't ask DYGONG. - CD Liner Notes The CD arrived in...
Author
Andrew Lee
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Jonny Greenwood and Penderecki (Nonesuch)

I really want to like Jonny Greenwood’s compositional career. Radiohead were the first band I loved,...
Author
Paul Kilbey
Adrian Knight - Self-portrait

Time of My Life by Adrian Knight

Twitter has surprised me. I initially was one of the skeptics, assuming that the 140 character limit...
Author
Andrew Lee
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Modern Music: Brad Mehldau, Kevin Hays & Patrick Zimmerli (Nonesuch)

Placing the pianist Brad Mehldau into a particular genre or category seems tricky; being defined as...
Author
Steven Berryman
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Returnings: Eve Egoyan performs the last piano works of Ann Southam

Ann Southam, who passed away at the age of 73 in 2010, was one of Canada’s foremost composers. Befor...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
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WANTED: a labyrinth, an abstraction, an escape from the spiritual void in the post-empire age

Three composers – each aiming to create modern music in which form has been replaced by “structures”...
Author
Rob Wendt
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