“Annette”, by Sparks. Boundaries are there to be crossed. Sparks, the American rock band led by brothers Ron and Russell Mael that emerged in Los Angeles in the early 1970s, first entered the realm of what might be considered “new opera” in 2009, when they created The Seduction of Ingmar…

“A Common Time”, by Chase Spruill. Philip Glass: A Common Time, the new album by the Californian violinist Charles “Chase” Spruill IV, published by Orange Mountain Music, is now available on all digital platforms, in which he performs seven representative pieces from the vast repertoire of the Bailtimore composer. The…

«Etudes pour Piano», by Cathy Krier. There was a time, around the 1960s, when György Ligeti, Hungarian by birth and naturalised Austrian, was one of the representatives of the more intellectual musical avant-garde. Ten years later he began to take an interest in African music and to write music sprinkled…

“A Kind of Mirror”, by Miki Sawada.   The Japanese classical pianist Miki Sawada – with a repertoire that includes Beethoven, Olivier Messiaen, Gabriel Fauré and György Ligeti – completely changes register with A Kind of Mirror, an album released through the Slashsound platform, in which she performs pieces written…

“For George Lewis”, by Tyshawn Sorey. The American composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey releases today, on the Cantaloupe label -founded in 2001 by Bang On A Can and Kenny Savelson, director of the Bang On A Can festival-, a double album in which he has counted on the musical interpretation…

“Turkish Belly”, by Konstrukt & Thurston Moore. Turkish Belly, the fifth in the series of collaborative albums released by the Turkish free jazz quartet Konstrukt, will be released on 27 August on the German label Karl Records. This time the group founded and led by guitarist Umut Çaglar and saxophonist…

“Number Pieces”, by Apartment House. The British contemporary music group Apartment House was founded in 1995 by the Anglo-Lithuanian cellist Anton Lukoszevieze. The group is named after a 1976 composition by John Cage, Apartment House 1776, composed for the Bicentenary of US independence, and it is precisely to Cage that…

“The Death of Satan”, by Simulacrum. After those wild jazz superbands that John Zorn created between the 80s and 90s, Naked City and Painkiller, in 2015 he launched a new project that mixes jazz, contemporary classical, minimalism and death metal, christened Simulacrum, in which Zorn composes, arranges and leads a…

“Sinner Get Ready”, by Lingua Ignota. American singer-songwriter Kristin Hayter, known artistically as Lingua Ignota, has just released on Sargent House her new album, Sinner Get Ready. Classically trained, her albums cover the alternative musical spectrum: if in her previous album, Caligula, she mixed classical elements with industrial rock, in…

Joep Beving releases a box set with 7 vinyls. Deutsche Grammophon releases today Trilogy, a luxurious limited edition box set that collects the three releases that the massive Dutch pianist Joep Beving has released since 2015 for the prestigious German label: Solipsism (one Lp), Prehension (two Lp’s) and Henosis (three…

Spanish guitarist Suso Saiz and British Michal Turtle release “Static Journeys”, a collaborative album. On Tuesday 27 July at 22:00, the rkvradio.com phonotoner will feature an extensive interview with one of the most important figures in Spanish ambient music, the Cadiz-born Suso Saiz. Founder in the eighties of the Orquesta…

“Maya Beiser x Philip Glass”, by Maya Beiser. The American cellist Maya Beiser, founder of Bang on a Can All Stars, the live extension of the Bang On A Can collective formed by Julia Wolfe, David Lang and Michael Gordon, has just released Maya Beiser x Philip Glass on her own…