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innova Bay Area Pilot Program artists Eki’Shola Abrams, Melinda Martinez Becker, Nicolas Lell Benavides, Lisa Mezzacappa, Beth Schenck, SHENSduo, Lewis Jordan, Julie Herndon, and Anne Hege

Innova Recordings Announces Bay Area Pilot Projects

American Composers Forum (ACF) and Innova Recordings are pleased to announce the selected artists an...
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Alicia Waller & The Excursion

Video Premiere: Soul by Alicia Waller & The Excursion

Today’s video premiere features Alicia Waller & The Excursion performing “Soul”...
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Joseph C. Phillips Jr.--Photo by Jenny Wohrle

5 Questions to Joseph C. Phillips Jr. (Numinous founder & composer)

Joseph C. Phillips Jr. is a composer who defines his own work as “mixed music,” a style...
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Clover Nahabedian
Afro Yaqui Music Collective--Photo by Renee Rosensteel, provided courtesy of the New Hazlett Theater

ListN Up: Afro Yaqui Music Collective (April 3, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing...
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Third Sound Heard in Havana

Third Sound’s Heard in Havana Celebrates a Diversity of Sound

Albums resulting from calls-for-scores tend to be a mixed bag, both thematically and stylistically.
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Adam O'Dell
Afro Yaqui Music Collective's Mirror Butterfly album, recently released on ACF's innova label

Mirror Butterfly: Afro Yaqui’s Call to Action for Migrant and Climate Justice

Human migration from gentrification, conflict and economic hardship, and increasingly climate change...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Volti the color of there seen from here

Virtuosity in Variety: Volti’s the color of there seen from here

Volti, a San-Francisco-based vocal ensemble led by Robert Geary, is passionately committed to commis...
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Lauren Ishida
Ashley Jackson performs Danielle Eva Schwob's The Long Way Down

Video Premiere: Ashley Jackson Performs Danielle Eva Schwob’s “The Long Way Down”

Today’s Four/Ten Media video premiere features harpist Ashley Jackson performing Danielle Eva...
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Night Wave

Yuko Fujiyama’s Night Wave Blends Bold Compositions with Free Improvisation

Night Wave, Yuko Fujiyama’s first release on innova, is a must-hear for fans of both contemporary cl...
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Clover Nahabedian
Smoke: Music of Marc Mellits

Visceral, Gut-level Impact: New Music Detroit’s Smoke: Music of Marc Mellits

Fifty-one years after the Summer of Love, a record from New Music Detroit (NMD) has arrived with an...
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Nick Stevens
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innova’s Inn-fest 2018 in Minneapolis-St. Paul: Delightfully Adventurous

Do you know those musical events in which you practically know all of the sounds you’ll hear e...
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Megan Ihnen
Dolce Suono American Canvas

Dolce Suono Trio’s American Canvas: A “Neo-Romantic Snapshot”

I, constantly, must remind myself that when I first heard contemporary music, it was not a headlong...
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James May
Sophia Subbaya Vastek

5 Questions to Sophia Subbayya Vastek (pianist, multidisciplinary artist)

Sophia Subbayya Vastek is a pianist and multidisciplinary artist who has performed in South Africa,...
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Bruce A. Russell
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BMOP Performs Ann Millikan’s Millikan Symphony on Innova

Ann Millikan’s imaginative and moving Millikan Symphony is an elegy to her brother, Robert C. Millik...
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Danika Paskvan
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5 Questions to Conrad Winslow (composer, The Perfect Nothing Catalog)

The Perfect Nothing Catalog is the debut CD by Brooklyn based composer Conrad Winslow. Scheduled for...
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Don Clark
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Home: Eleonore Oppenheim’s Debut Album

Eleonore Oppenheim‘s debut album Home (Innova Recordings) is a showcase of diverse composition...
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Jay Derderian
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Chamber Music for Strings: Jane Antonia Cornish’s Continuum

In Jane Antonia Cornish’s second solo studio album Continuum we get a clearer aural picture of the y...
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Christian Gentry
Patrick Castillo

5 Questions to Patrick Castillo (American Composers Forum)

Brooklyn-based composer Patrick Castillo is the vice-chair of the board of directors for the America...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Nils Bultmann Troubadour Blue

Troubadour Blue by Nils Bultmann on Innova

Often the viola is not thought of as a solo instrument. It is the connecting timbre between violin a...
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Jarrett Goodchild
Bill Band - Photo credits Tim Darwish, Bill Ryan

5 questions to Bill Ryan (composer)

This Sunday, February 10, Bill Ryan's Billband is having a release concert at Le Poisson Rouge. “Tow...
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Thomas Deneuville
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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...
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Richard Barnard
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