Tag Archives: New Focus Recordings

When the proletariat strains of folk and popular music intersect with "contemporary classical" and experimental music, interesting things happen.

Music by definition almost always engages with the passage of time. The captivating music on this album stands on its own without the need for any specific meaning.

The composer pays tribute to the Persian poet-musicians of late antiquity on this superb album featuring soprano Sara Paar.

This is the accomplished and often exciting portrait album from the pianist and multidisciplinary artist.

Beltline Bones, a "new music ensemble disguised as a trombone quartet," offers an album with much variety, yet these commissions seem to lean into one another. Each engages in its own way, as all five composers seem to fully understand the ensemble's sensibility.

Past, present, and future mythologies inspired composers Steven L. Ricks, Caroline Louise Miller, and Elainie Lillios to create experimental new music for the trumpet, piano, and percussion trio SPLICE Ensemble

On Diego Tedesco's first portrait album, the composer uncovers fresh seams of gold in well-explored mines of atonality and abstraction.

In the music on composer David Bird's new album, the hardness and coldness of actual metal seem almost literally audible.

Four composers combine in an appealing work promoting "a shared community between us and the other living creatures that make us possible."

Let your mind create its own pictures...