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Album
Our new Winter 2012 Mixtape is live! It features music by Missy Mazzoli, Florent Ghys, The Ericksons...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison and Edgard Varèse were truly mavericks in their day, challenging conventi...
Author
Don Clark
The goal of Jenni Olson's new album, Dreams of Birds, is to utilize the "full array of tone colors"...
Author
Matt Weber
A makeshift model of the Brooklyn Bridge built out of old cardboard boxes resides on the front of th...
Author
Justin Rito
Music I’m Buying is a series dedicated to reviewing albums that are not sent gratis to I Care if You...
Author
Andrew Lee
Minimalist music seems a natural fit for setting texts of the Orthodox and Catholic churches. Both h...
Author
Andrew Lee
With the plethora of new music ensembles out there and the various instrumentations they employ, it’...
Author
David Pearson
Chamber music is hard. It’s hard to play and even harder to write. Both composer and performer are e...
Author
Daniel Garrick
Swiss composer and performer Martin Schlumpf (b. 1947) is little known in this country. In fairness,...
Author
Jay Greenberg
Anyone who writes music has to figure out how to balance structure and emotion. Logic and unpredicta...
Author
Evan Burke
I’ve been waiting for this album to come out since the Bang on a Can Marathon back in June. That was...
Author
Sam Reising
This album is the creative fruit of a unique Bay Area collaboration between San Francisco Choral Art...
Author
Rob Wendt
Other evils there are that may come; for Sauron is himself but a servant or emissary. -Gandalf, The...
Author
Andrew Lee
Music I'm Buying is a series dedicated to reviewing albums that are not sent gratis to I Care if You...
Author
Andrew Lee
Whenever the key parts of a sentence are the words “Brian Eno” and “new music ensemble,” I cringe a...
Author
Neal Markowski
Since its beginnings in the late 1990s, the string quartet Ethel has grown to become a powerful forc...
Author
Sam Reising
As the Rite of Spring approaches 100 years of public life, interest in Stravinsky’s masterpiece is s...
Author
Richard Barnard
On Joel Frederiksen’s Requiem for a Pink Moon, an Elizabethan Tribute to Nick Drake, selections from...
Author
Elias Blumm
Nonclassical are an organisation with big plans for music’s future, intent on taking the “classical”...
Author
Paul Kilbey
Evan Ziporyn's new recording, Big Grenadilla /Mumbai, manages to be futuristic while playing with tr...
Author
Evan Burke
Alejandro Rutty’s new album The Conscious Sleepwalker is both a tour de force of the tango form, a...
Author
Matt Weber
“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
I am very pleased to announce that the Summer 2012 Mixtape is out! It is completely free and just a...
Author
Thomas Deneuville