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Album
Once a death sentence, AIDS is thankfully now a condition that can be managed, and while the fear of...
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
As the hardships caused by the global pandemic and uprisings in protest of police brutality and syst...
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Dalanie Harris
From the album artwork by Lois Mailou Jones to the notes emanating from New Muse 4tet, Blue Lotus is...
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Jasmine IVANNA Espy
Speaking, singing, shouting, and howling, the voice is front and center in FOLKS’ SONGS, the debut E...
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Chrysanthe Tan
Lustre is the way light interacts with the surface of a jewel. It’s ambiguous and has a wealth of in...
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Lana Norris
Southeast of Rain, a duo comprised of pipa player Sophia Shen and vocalist Lemon Guo, are composer-p...
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Lauren Ishida
The Los Angeles Electroacoustic Ensemble’s debut self-titled album represents an exploration of elec...
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Padideh Aghanoury
Microtonal electroacoustic experimentation meets sci-fi explorations of the universe and creation on...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
A renowned member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971, le...
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Jillian DeGroot
On composer-percussionist Susie Ibarra’s portrait album, Talking Gong, the dialogue between these re...
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Nebal Maysaud
On her newly released album, Maquishti (Valley of Search), percussionist-composer Patricia Brennan o...
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Donna Lee Davidson
Elif Yalvaç grew up in an area of Turkey where, according to her bio, guitars were hard to come by.
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Meaghan Burke’s A Few Concerns (Gold Bolus Recordings) is the culmination of six years of work with...
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Tristan McKay
A shadow can be defined as partial or complete darkness. So it seems only appropriate that composer...
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Nilina Mason-Campbell
Amidst the social and political turmoil that has erupted in the United States over the past year, ma...
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Dalanie Harris
When most musicians talk about “playing” music, what they mean is “performing.” But for improvisers...
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Julia Kuhlman
Yvette Janine Jackson is dropping an LP entitled Freedom (Fridman Gallery) on January 29, 2021. Cons...
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Donna Lee Davidson
In her newest album, AFTERPARTY (released November 8, 2020), Rhonda Taylor brings together an eclect...
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Sofía Rocha
Joseph C. Phillips Jr. composes with no limitations. Undefined by any genre, the 2016 American Compo...
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Jasmine IVANNA Espy
Ever-growing access to arts education has resulted in a treasure-trove of skilled performers along w...
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Nebal Maysaud
A Cockroach’s Tarantella is the latest collaboration between JACK Quartet and composer Du Yun. Relea...
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Ciyadh Wells
Two years have passed since the release of Wang Lu’s debut album Urban Inventory, making the release...
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Jennifer Jolley
If this year has delivered any sort of message about our field, it’s that artists will inevita...
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Amanda Cook
