musicsprings will be revived if I can get news like this of new releases.
From Innova

If There Were Water
Displacement in our time
Composers:
Stratis Minakakais
Gregory W. Brown
Performers:
The Crossing
Donald Nally

Duo Damiana
Castillos De Viento
Description:
Castles in the wind
Composers:
Hebert Vázquez
Michael Fiday
Shafer Mahoney
Chen Yi
Jesse Jones
Performers:
Duo Damiana
Molly Barth
Dieter Hennings

Dolce Suono Trio
American Canvas
Description:
A thrilling trialogue
Composers:
Jennifer Higdon
Andrea Clearfield
Zhou Tian
Shulamit Ran
Performers:
Dolce Suono Trio
Mimi Stillman
Nathan Vickery
Charles Abramovic
Lucy Shelton
Gabriel Cabezas
Alexis Pia Gerlach
From Cuneiform

In the mansion that is Raoul Björkenheim’s music there are many rooms, and the Finnish-American guitar explorer opens up a particularly vivid and volatile new portal with Doors of Perception, his third Cuneiform release with his quartet Ecstasy. The album captures an extraordinary working ensemble stretching into transfixing new spaces, settings defined as much by texture, vibe and sinuous melodic lines as by rhythmic and harmonic structures.
Featuring the innovative drummer Markku Ounaskari, Björkenheim’s longtime partner in sonic exploration, the young and dauntingly prolific bassist Jori Huhtala and saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen, Ecstasy continues to expand its sonic palette. Over the course of seven years the musicians have forged a riveting communion. Capaciously inventive, rigorously gutsy and unapologetically Nordic, the music flows from the forbidding Finnish landscape and the hothouse Helsinki scene that gave birth to the band.
One sure sign of the quartet’s deep connection is the way they distill ideas. Sequenced as a stream of consciousness train of impressions, Doors of Perception features 10 tracks that all clock in under five minutes. Rather than exploring extended forms or expansive soundscapes the music is marked by pithy statements and compressed drama. Which isn’t to say Doors of Perception lacks grandeur.
While Björkenheim is no stranger to long musical structures, he was after a different kind of narrative arc on Doors of Perception. Much like each piece is a finely calibrated aural microcosmos, the album proceeds from track to track with its own internal logic. “In a way it is countercultural,” Björkenheim says. “It’s an invitation to a listener to enter in the world that might be disorienting. I don’t hear a walking bass, is this jazz? It might be a little bit of a challenge, but it’s also an invitation.”
With Doors of Perception, Björkenheim and Ecstasy offer something all too rare these days, a musical journey in which the destination is unknown and unpredictable.

Trying to make France’s Art Zoyd fit into a single neat description is an exercise in futility. Sometimes they’re fiendish sonic saboteurs bent on destroying listener’s preconceptions about the way music works. Sometimes they’re musical sorcerers conjuring strange but bewitching moments of lyrical beauty.
You could call them the original post-rock band, moving on from the dark, stormy sounds of prog legends like Magma and King Crimson to something that makes even those fearless explorers sound conventional by comparison. You’d be equally accurate in dubbing them avant-classical composers, whose experimental visions are influenced by Stravinsky and Schoenberg.
They were members of the notorious Rock In Opposition (RIO) movement alongside the likes of Henry Cow and Univers Zero. They’re impressionistic soundtrack composers. They’re a band. They’re a multimedia collective. Ultimately they’re simply Art Zoyd. And it takes a document as massive and monumental as the 12-CD/2-DVD/2-Book set 44 1/2 to even come close to offering a comprehensive picture of what they’re all about.
Containing hours of live and unreleased material from the vast Art Zoyd archives, 44 1/2 delves into the dense jungle of wildly diverse periods in a story that goes all the way back to the ’70s. But it also provides many of the missing links in their long, knotty discography, filling in the gaps between their official releases and weaving together all of Art Zoyd’s disparate stylistic strands into a majestic, multicolored, even imposing tapestry.
From New Amsterdam

Dissections
Invisible Anatomy

Without Chasms
William Brittelle

A Dance That Empties
Subtle Degrees

All Can Work
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble

Rounder Songs
Emily Pinkerton, Patrick Burke, and NOW Ensemble

Orpheus Unsung
Steven Mackey and Jason Treuting
For the best in streaming new music of living composers, visit https://www.newsounds.org/ from New York Public Radio



John Schaefer
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