The first of two episodes looking back at some of my favorite contemporary classical, experimental electronic, and other art music releases from 2022...
Playlist
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Årstabron Arch no.2 by Jon Collin on Bridge Variations (or The Song of Stokholm) (Discreet) -
Shara Nova: No. 38, You are the ghost by Shara Nova & A Far Cry on Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw & Sarah Kirkland Snider: The Blue Hour (New Amsterdam & Nonesuch) -
Beech by NYX & Laura Misch on Songs of Epping Forest :: Dreamscapes for Voice, Saxophone and Trees (NYX Collective) -
Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti: with eyes the color of time: Open Triangles by String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Eli Spindel (conductor) on enfolding (New Focus) -
A Caso by Hatis Noit on Aura (Erased Tapes) -
Allison Loggins-Hull: Homeland by Jennifer Grim on Through Broken Time (New Focus) -
The Unfolding by Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra on The Unfolding (Real World) -
Blood Brother by Emily Wells on Regards to the End (Thesis & Instinct) -
Liquid, Fragile by Rane Moore, Gabriela Diaz, Mark Berger, Rafael Popper-Keizer on Marti Epstein: Nebraska Impromptu (New Focus) -
Shallows by Hawktail on Place of Growth (Padiddle) -
K.B. by Sophia Subbayya Vastek on In Our Softening (self released) -
Showan Tavakol: Kamalto: II by Kimia Hesabi on Nemāno Gaona (New Focus) -
Tania León: Esencia: III. Agua de Manantial by Bergamot Quartet on In the Brink (New Focus) -
Darkness by Molly Joyce on Perspective (New Amsterdam) -
Finola Merivale: The Language of Mountains is Rain by Adrianne Munden-Dixon, Caroline Drexler, Carrie Frey, Julia Henderson on Finola Merivale & Desdemona: Tús (New Focus) -
Octet: III. Fantasia by Eastman Wind Ensemble, Mark Scatterday (conductor) on David Liptak: Brightening Air (New Focus) -
Polka by Kate Romano, Ionel Manciu on Julian Philips: Melodys of Earth and Sky (NMC) -
Regentrude by Suzie Purkis, Thallein Ensemble, Daniele Rosina (conductor) on 'Aria Cuntata and the Low Miracles (Birmingham) -
Frames No.1 by VEER Quartet on Sarah Bernstein: VEER Quartet (Panoramic) -
Missing Words II: I. Leertretung (Void-Stepping) by American Brass Quintet on Eric Nathan: Missing Words (New Focus) -
Joy Boy (arr. Shelley Washington) by Wild Up on Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy (New Amsterdam)