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New Focus Recordings
Some albums have the power to shift the listener’s mood: to excite, stimulate, slow down, or soothe.
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Chrysanthe Tan
The stoic opening of “Mouth Full of Ears” belies its rambunctious, minimalist, alt-pop e...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
I’ve never understood what I’m supposed to do at the beach. Should I swim and embrace frivolity? Sho...
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Thulasi Seshan
Picture an electrically charged violin that buzzes and swells as it rotates inside a compressed magn...
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Esteban Meneses
We Live the Opposite Daring, the sophomore album from the New York-based vocal sextet Ekmeles, is im...
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Sofía Rocha
Designed for both music creators and their collaborators, “Anatomy of a Commission” is a digital res...
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Austin Wulliman
Home, identity, and self are ideas that apply to everyone navigating their way through life; each st...
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Kevin Baldwin
Compelling and deeply touching, with grace and passion in equal measure, Sirventès is a collection o...
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Sofía Rocha
The Philadelphia-based chamber choir The Crossing has long supported musical works that tackle socia...
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Clover Nahabedian
In the ancient Iranian language Avestan, “Nemāno Gaona” translates to “colors of home.” On her debut...
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Clover Nahabedian
Tús, the debut album by Irish composer Finola Merivale, engages listeners with an experimental langu...
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Julia Kuhlman
In many of her works, composer and vocalist Kate Soper negotiates and defies genre. She lets us cons...
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Tracy Monaghan
Although pandemic-related isolation is threatening to become a subgenre, clarinetist Alicia Lee’s ne...
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Esteban Meneses
I think this is finally the year where I knowingly sacrifice I CARE IF YOU LISTEN’s SEO, becau...
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Amanda Cook
Ensemble Dal Niente, a staunch Chicago-based purveyor of new music, is not like other groups. Since...
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Esteban Meneses
Of all the things one might expect to find at a post apocalyptic dance club, a lonely snare drum pro...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
A chorus of otherworldly whispers, harmonics, scrapes, and multiphonics usher in Jessie Cox’s...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
The video trailer for Akropolis Reed Quintet’s new album Ghost Light (New Focus Recordings) ho...
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Stephanie Boyd
On composer-percussionist Susie Ibarra’s portrait album, Talking Gong, the dialogue between these re...
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Nebal Maysaud
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
Today’s track premiere features Transient Canvas (Amy Advocat, bass clarinet; Matt Sharrock, m...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Today’s track premiere features cellist Diana Golden and pianist Shawn Chang performing Femiel...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
