Fall Music Preview ~ Modern Composition

The elegant hues of modern composition make the genre a perfect match for fall.  Orchestras bloom like full-spectrum trees; piano notes fall like individual leaves.  As ambassadors to the moss and dirt, these leaves nourish the next generation.  The songs

Fall Music Preview ~ Modern Composition

The elegant hues of modern composition make the genre a perfect match for fall.  Orchestras bloom like full-spectrum trees; piano notes fall like individual leaves.  As ambassadors to the moss and dirt, these leaves nourish the next generation.  The songs

Fall Music Preview ~ Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz

The new season has arrived, along with new hopes, new ventures and new music!  Over the course of the week, we’ll be listing over 400 new albums on these pages, including a far more even genre distribution than we’ve seen

Fall Music Preview ~ Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz

The new season has arrived, along with new hopes, new ventures and new music!  Over the course of the week, we’ll be listing over 400 new albums on these pages, including a far more even genre distribution than we’ve seen

The 40 Best Compilation Albums of All Time ~ Part Two

Welcome to the second half of our list, in which we survey the best compilations. We shall keep the introductory waffle to part one, but suffice to say – we have tried to be as comprehensive as possible for this

The 40 Best Compilation Albums of All Time ~ Part Two

Welcome to the second half of our list, in which we survey the best compilations. We shall keep the introductory waffle to part one, but suffice to say – we have tried to be as comprehensive as possible for this

The 40 Best Compilation Albums of All Time ~ Part One

 You may not think of compilations with the same nostalgia that you treat the first record you bought in a shop. But there is a good chance that your first opportunity of experiencing music in a physical form, be it

The 40 Best Compilation Albums of All Time ~ Part One

 You may not think of compilations with the same nostalgia that you treat the first record you bought in a shop. But there is a good chance that your first opportunity of experiencing music in a physical form, be it

Sarah Davachi ~ Two Sisters

Listening to Two Sisters is like going to church ~ not a modern church, or even a medieval church, but a church liberated from doctrine and dogma, where emotion and spirit are carried by notes and amplified by the spaces in-between.

Sarah Davachi ~ Two Sisters

Listening to Two Sisters is like going to church ~ not a modern church, or even a medieval church, but a church liberated from doctrine and dogma, where emotion and spirit are carried by notes and amplified by the spaces in-between.

Copenhagen Clarinet Choir ~ Organism

Groups of instrumentalists face a challenge that soloists do not, in that each member must constantly adapt and respond to the others’ pitch, tempo and timbre. Ensembles of varying natures have different ways of staying cohesive; an orchestra follows their

Copenhagen Clarinet Choir ~ Organism

Groups of instrumentalists face a challenge that soloists do not, in that each member must constantly adapt and respond to the others’ pitch, tempo and timbre. Ensembles of varying natures have different ways of staying cohesive; an orchestra follows their

Curha ~ 3

Here’s an album one can judge by its cover ~ even if one cannot predict the sound, one can predict the tone.  Curtis Hasselbring (Curha) is having a (literal) blast, as the trombone is a major part of his timbre,

Curha ~ 3

Here’s an album one can judge by its cover ~ even if one cannot predict the sound, one can predict the tone.  Curtis Hasselbring (Curha) is having a (literal) blast, as the trombone is a major part of his timbre,

Concretism ~ The Thetford Beast

North America has Bigfoot (or Sasquatch); Asia has the Yeti (or the Abominable Snowman); Norfolk has the Thetford Beast.  Like its possible relatives, this seldom-spotted creature is about seven feet tall and hairy, resembling (depending on whom one might ask)

Concretism ~ The Thetford Beast

North America has Bigfoot (or Sasquatch); Asia has the Yeti (or the Abominable Snowman); Norfolk has the Thetford Beast.  Like its possible relatives, this seldom-spotted creature is about seven feet tall and hairy, resembling (depending on whom one might ask)