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Squash & Biscuit's 瓜和饼干 Lavender Eggplant 绛仙

Squash & Biscuit 瓜和饼干 Craft Sonic Memory Souvenirs on Lavender Eggplant 绛仙

The experimental duo Squash & Biscuit 瓜和饼干 (Shuwen Zhao and Brian Griffith) identify themsel...
Author
Jennifer Jolley
Eden Rayz Corpus Vice

Eden Rayz’s “Corpus Vice” Blends Death Metal and Contemporary Classical Music

As classical musicians become more interested in styles of playing outside of what is traditionally...
Author
Clover Nahabedian
Jascha Narveson and Ashley Bathgate Flash Crash + Remixes

Jascha Narveson’s Flash Crash + Remixes Probes our Relationship with Technology

Technological advances in artificial intelligence, algorithms, and automation have provided advancem...
Author
Kevin Baldwin
Yu Nishiyama A Lotus in the Mud

Yu Nishiyama’s Debut Album “A Lotus in the Mud” Comes Into Bloom

As an avid record collector, I have a pretty strong ability to pick albums off the shelf that look l...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Elif Yalvaç's Diaries of Destruction

Elif Yalvaç’s “Diaries of Destruction” Fights for Survival Amid the Wreckage

Elif Yalvaç started work on Diaries of Destruction during Turkey’s oppressive summer heat in 2020. S...
Author
Padideh Aghanoury
Jordan Bak's Impulse

Jordan Bak Creates Immersive, Multi-Dimensional Soundscapes on “Impulse”

“One of my favorite pieces written for viola and piano is A String Around Autumn by Tōru Takemitsu.
Author
A. Kori Hill
Weston Olencki's Old Time Music

Old Time Music Explores Traditions, Technologies, and Archives of “American Music”

In the past decade, Weston Olencki’s work as a multifaceted artist has explored the limits of...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
For the Love of Fire and Water

“For the Love of Fire and Water” Creates Harmony Out of Discord

On April 8, 2022, pianist and composer Myra Melford is releasing her full-length album For the Love...
Author
Padideh Aghanoury
Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson's Blue

New Opera “Blue” Presents Searing Take on Police Violence

If opera can be the barometer of the present, Blue is the opera for our times. Complicated family dy...
Author
Esteban Meneses
Weavings album cover

Nicolás Jaar’s “Weavings” is a Fascinating Triumph of Technology

Since its inception in 2003, Unsound Festival has become well known for its carefully curated, genre...
Author
Clover Nahabedian
The Understanding of All Things by Kate Soper featuring Sam Pluta

Kate Soper and Sam Pluta Fracture What is Known on “The Understanding of All Things”

In many of her works, composer and vocalist Kate Soper negotiates and defies genre. She lets us cons...
Author
Tracy Monaghan
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The Rhythm Method Questions the Stories Told by our Inherited History

You may know The Rhythm Method from Hidden Mothers, their initiative that brings the music of histor...
Author
Tristan McKay
LYNX Project's beautiful small things

“beautiful small things” Shares the Words of Autistic Youth Through Song

The breadth of LYNX Project’s beautiful small things (out March 10, 2022 via ArtistShare) is i...
Author
Sofía Rocha
fivebyfive Of and Between

Of and Between: fivebyfive Draws Connections Between Music and Visual Art

In the world of visual art, perspective is what shows us how objects in a piece are related; it’s th...
Author
Julia Kuhlman
Nyokabi Kariūki pece places: kenyan memories

Geography, ancestry, and language: Nyokabi Kariuki’s “peace places: kenyan memories”

Used to call, invoke, and speak to ancestral spirits, the instruments on Nyokabi Kariuki’s peace pla...
Author
Donna Lee Davidson
Laura Cocks field anatomies

field anatomies: Laura Cocks Hyperextends the Flute-Body Relationship

Laura Cocks, flutist and Executive Director of TAK Ensemble, chamber and solo performer, and advocat...
Author
Jillian DeGroot
DunkelpeK Fire's Hush

DunkelpeK’s “Fire’s Hush” is a “Joyous Vehicle” for Experimental Improvisation

With nearly a decade of experience playing together under their belts, Japanese-born percussionist N...
Author
Tristan McKay
Alicia Lee Conversations With Myself

Alicia Lee’s Conversations With Myself Resonates from the Depths of Isolation

Although pandemic-related isolation is threatening to become a subgenre, clarinetist Alicia Lee’s ne...
Author
Esteban Meneses
Ted Babcock Trilogies

The Dimensions of Time in Ted Babcock’s Debut Album “Trilogies”

Percussionist Ted Babcock is making his album debut as a composer with Trilogies, self-released on N...
Author
Donna Lee Davidson
Editor's Picks: 2021 New Music Albums

Editor’s Picks: 2021 New Music Albums

I think this is finally the year where I knowingly sacrifice I CARE IF YOU LISTEN’s SEO, becau...
Author
Amanda Cook
Elly Kace Nothing I see means anything

Elly Kace Pleasantly Disorients Listeners on “Nothing I see means anything”

The first ten seconds of Elly Kace’s new album provokes a question that listeners will find themselv...
Author
Julia Kuhlman
Sara Serpa and Emmanuel Iduma Intimate Strangers

Sara Serpa and Emmanuel Iduma Share Stories of “Intimate Strangers”

In the pursuit to connect with the humanity of a stranger, fewer acts are as powerful as hearing the...
Author
Padideh Aghanoury
Ensemble Dal Niente confined. speak.

Ensemble Dal Niente’s “confined. speak.” Contemplates Pandemic Paradoxes

Ensemble Dal Niente, a staunch Chicago-based purveyor of new music, is not like other groups. Since...
Author
Esteban Meneses
Saman Shahi Microlocking

Saman Shahi Creates Welcoming Spaces on Microlocking

Even for fans of contemporary classical, microtonal music can sometimes be a tough sell. Not because...
Author
Clover Nahabedian
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