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Rick Burkhardt, thingNY--Passover

Rick Burkhardt and thingNY Exchange Multi-Dimensional Stories of Departure with “Passover”

For the first time in a decade, Obie Award-winning composer and playwright Rick Burkhardt has releas...
Author
Tristan McKay
Sophia Subbayya Vastek In Our Softening

Sophia Subbayya Vastek’s “In Our Softening” Finds Tenderness in an Abandoned Piano

In Our Softening, the sophomore piano album by Sophia Subbayya Vastek, is a journey that moves beyon...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Apollo Chamber Players Moonstrike

On Moonstrike, Apollo Chamber Players Blend Folk and Contemporary Influences

Crafting an album that is juxtaposed with whimsey and contemplation while considering the moon is no...
Author
Ciyadh Wells
Elizabeth A. Baker Chaotic Neutral

Elizabeth A. Baker’s Dreamworld Turns Mercurial in “Chaotic Neutral”

The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker does not want to tell you what it’s all about. In fact, she would...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Eunbi Kim It Feels Like

Spoken Word and Piano Soar on Eunbi Kim’s “It Feels Like”

As listeners, we’re familiar with the combination of spoken word and music in popular genres such as...
Author
Forrest Howell
Tania León Teclas de mi piano

Piano Works by Tania León Span Four Decades on “Teclas de mi piano”

The music of Pulitzer Prize winner Tania León is intimately connected to memories of her formative y...
Author
Esteban Meneses
Gity Razaz The Strange Highway

Gity Razaz Releases Evocative and Profound Debut Album, The Strange Highway

Out August 5, 2022 on BIS Records, The Strange Highway is an album of works whose haunting, ethereal...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
JoVia Armstrong The Antidote Suite

JoVia Armstrong’s “The Antidote Suite” Releases Grief and Embraces Change

Black music is the art of storytelling. It encompasses the pain, the grief, the joy, and the triumph...
Author
Jasmine IVANNA Espy
Chris Williams and Leo Chang Unnameable Element

On “Unnameable Element,” Chang and Williams Forge Experimental Soundscapes

As self-identified experimentalists, Leo Chang (voice/electronics) and Chris Williams (trumpet) use...
Author
Julia Kuhlman
BAKUDI SCREAM FINAL SKIN

BAKUDI SCREAM’s FINAL SKIN is an Open World Meditation on Virtual/Actual Identities

If you enjoy contemporary classical music and artists like 100 gecs, Arca, and SOPHIE, I may have fo...
Author
Tristan McKay
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
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