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CD Review Chamber Music Contemporary Classical File Under? Guitar Strings Twentieth Century Composer

Best Chamber Recording 2017

December 31, 2017 Christian Carey

Terry Riley and Stefano Scodanibbio The Dark Queen Mantra Del Sol String Quartet; Gyan Riley, guitar Sono Luminus On this Sono Luminus CD, Terry Riley’s chamber works are superlatively performed…

Best of Boston CD Review Conductors Contemporary Classical Criticism Critics File Under? Orchestral Recordings Review San Francisco Saxophone

Best Orchestra Portrait CD: BMOP Plays Peterson

December 30, 2017 Christian Carey

Wayne Peterson Transformations Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor; PRISM Quartet BMOP/sound 1053 Composer Wayne Peterson (b. 1927) served as one of his generation’s fixtures on the West Coast…

Best of CD Review Experimental Music File Under? Guitar Post Modern

Best Rock Recording 2017: Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Luciferian Towers

December 29, 2017 Christian Carey

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers Constellation CD/LP/DL Canadian instrumental post-rock leftist collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor brings something old and something new to the musical anti-fascist fray on Luciferian…

Best of CD Review Electro-Acoustic Experimental Music File Under?

Best Synth Pop Recording: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

December 29, 2017 Christian Carey

Have you heard Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s The Kid (Western Vinyl, 2017) yet? Inspired by the loss of a friend, it is an electroacoustic journey from childhood to the loss of…

Best of CD Review Contemporary Classical Drone Experimental Music File Under? Piano

Best Drone Recording 2017: Lee Plays Gibson

December 28, 2017 Christian Carey

Randy Gibson The Four Pillars Appearing from The Equal D under Resonating Apparitions of The Eternal Process in The Midwinter Starfield 16 VIII 10 (Kansas City) Andrew Lee, amplified piano…

CD Review Concert review File Under? jazz New York

Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan at the Jazz Standard

December 14, 2017 Christian Carey

Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan The Jazz Standard December 10, 2017 Sequenza 21 By Christian Carey NEW YORK – Like the dearly departed duo of Jim Hall and Charlie Haden,…

CD Review File Under? jazz

Vijay Iyer Sextet – Far From Over

December 1, 2017 Christian Carey

Vijay Iyer Sextet Far From Over ECM 2581 Steve Lehman, Alto Saxophone; Graham Haynes, Cornet, Flugelhorn, Electronics; Stephen Crump, Double Bass; Tyshawn Sorey, Drums; Vijay Iyer, Piano, Electric Piano; Mark…

CD Review CDs Contemporary Classical early music File Under? Guitar Recordings

Maderna and Berio on ECM (CD Review

November 14, 2017 Christian Carey

Now, and Then Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor Pablo Márquez, guitar ECM 2485 November 17 sees the release of Now, and Then, an ECM recording of transcriptions…

CD Review Concerts File Under? jazz

Friday: Aaron Parks Trio Plays at Smalls

June 15, 2017 Christian Carey

On Friday, June 16th from 7:30 to 10 at the New York jazz venue Smalls, pianist Aaron Parks celebrates the release of Find the Way, his second release on ECM…

CD Review Chamber Music Contemporary Classical File Under? Recordings

Kronos Plays Folk Songs

June 12, 2017 Christian Carey

Kronos Quartet, with Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens, and Natalie Merchant Folk Songs Nonesuch CD From its earliest recordings, which included transcriptions of jazz, Kronos Quartet has cast their…

Best Chamber Recording 2017

Best Orchestra Portrait CD: BMOP Plays Peterson

Best Rock Recording 2017: Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Luciferian Towers

Best Synth Pop Recording: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Best Drone Recording 2017: Lee Plays Gibson

Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan at the Jazz Standard

Vijay Iyer Sextet – Far From Over

Maderna and Berio on ECM (CD Review

Friday: Aaron Parks Trio Plays at Smalls

Kronos Plays Folk Songs

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