American label Odradek releases “Cherche titre”, the first album by Spanish composer Mikel Urquiza. It is very enlightening that the libretto of Cherche titre, the first album by Basque composer Mikel Urquiza (Bilbao, 1988), is written in English, German and French. It suggests that the interest in Spain (and Latin…

The American composer John Luther Adams releases “Houses of the Wind”, an album created from field recordings made with an aeolian harp. The music of John Luther Adams (Meridian, Mississippi, 1953) is often inspired by nature. The composer studied percussion and composition at the California Institute of the Arts, known…

Italian guitarist Giacomo Baldelli releases “New York City Tracks”, an album of electric guitar versions of great pieces of American minimalism and post-minimalism. The guitarist Giacomo Baldelli (Reggio Emilia, 1982) has just released on the Italian label Halidon his album New York City Tracks, in which the instrumentalist has wanted…

British label Whitelabrecs releases the second joint album by Edu Comelles and Rafa Ramos Sania. The Spanish double bass player (actually a multi-instrumentalist) and composer Rafa Ramos Sania and the Spanish sound artist and cultural manager Edu Comelles have recently released De camp, their second joint album on the British…

Liquen Records releases “7 works for chamber music and ensemble”, by the young Spanish composer Joan Gómez Alemany. The Spanish record label Liquen Records has recently released a new album of works by the young composer Joan Gómez Alemany (Valencia, 1990), entitled 7 works for chamber music and ensemble. These…

The French label B Records releases “Black Angels & Music for a Summer Evening”, by the late American composer George Crumb. A few weeks after the death of the American composer George Crumb (Charleston, West Virginia, 24 October 1929-Media, Pennsylvania, 6 February 2022), the French record label B Records released…

“Umsindo Omgcolile 1” is a project based on LoFi sounds. Umsindo Omgcolile means dirty noise or filthy noise in Zulu. This album has been recorded from sound drifts and field recordings; vinyl records of different musical genres have also been used. The material used for recording and mixing was a…

Steven Schick releases “A Hard Rain”, an album of mythical contemporary percussion pieces. The American percussionist Steven Schick (Iowa, 1954) is not only an accomplished specialist in contemporary percussion, but also a conductor and festival curator (he directed, among others, the Ojai Festival in 2015) as well as one of…

The Nonesuch label releases a box set of 40 John Adams CDs for US $172. Nonesuch, the record label that has been publishing the work of American composer John Adams since 1985, yesterday released the John Adams Collected Works box set, a collection of forty CDs spanning more than four…

Clarinetist Evan Ziporyn records “Best Out of Three”, a lost piece of the 60s by Philip Glass. The American clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist Evan Ziporyn (Chicago, 1959), one of the founders of Bang on a Can All-Stars in 1992 (a group he remained with until 2012, when he left to create…

Quatuor Molinari publishes the first volume of Philip Glass’s complete “String Quartets”. The Quatuor Molinari was founded in 1997 in Canada by violinist Olga Ranzenhofer in homage to the artist Guido Molinari (who, in addition to giving his name to the Quartet, also designed its logo), with the purpose of…