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American composer Jefferson Friedman's music has been called 'impossible to resist' by the New York Times, and Sequenza 21 reports, '[Mr. Friedman] goes a lot further toward sustaining interest and...

Invisible Anatomy is a composer-performer ensemble that explores the human body as the most fundamental aspect of music creation and performance. Formed in 2014 by six graduates of the Yale School of...

Greenstein / Friar / Mazzoli / Dancigers / Now Ens Awake CD1. Change 2. Velvet Hammer 3. Magic with Everyday Objects 4. Burst 5. Waiting in the Rain for Snow 6. Awake

Baroque is the second album from violist Nadia Sirota and the first-ever co-release from like-minded labels New Amsterdam Records (based in Brooklyn) and Bedroom Community (based in Iceland). This is...

It's like Roomful of Teeth on different sides of the planet," describes artistic director Brad Wells regarding the simultaneous release of a propulsively rhythmic The Ascendant from composer Wally...

Michael Harrison's Just Constellations was described as "glacially beautiful" by The New Yorker's Alex Ross, who wrote about the performance of this recording at The Tank, an unlikely contemporary...

Cityscapes is the first full-length album from the New York City-based, eclectic powerhouse band ShoutHouse. ShoutHouse is a collaboration between more than 25 artists, including four composers, five...

Created with poet/librettist Saul Williams, Ted Hearne's newest album, Place, considers gentrification through an inspired oratorio originally commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The...

Ted Hearne, composer, singer, and bandleader, wrote this modern day oratorio for seven musicians and four singers. 'The Source tells the life and story of the US Army Private who leaked thousands of...

Molly Herron's Through Lines is an album for an ensemble of violas da gamba, an obscure instrument that saw it's European heyday during the 16th and 17th centuries. For over two centuries, composers...

Drummer/composer John Hollenbeck and his 20-piece Large Ensemble presents their third album, All Can Work, on New Amsterdam Records. The album follows the band's Grammy-nominated releases A Blessing...

This sentimental album, which translates to Women of Haiti in English, shows Nathalie Joachim exploring her Haitian heritage and celebrating the songs and stories of Haiti's most iconic yet under...