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NMC Recordings is an award-winning record label and charity supporting new music from Britain and Ireland. Recipient of the RPS Gamechanger Award 2025 Our website: https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/ Mailing list: https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/about-us/mailing-list

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Zoë Martlew - Zoë Martlew: G-lude Listen to Zoë Martlew: G-lude by Zoë Martlew.

OUT NOW - #ZoeMartlew G-Lude

G-lude, a cello distortion rock-up performed by Martlew herself, contains explosive catharsis of shrieks, gasps, scrapes & howls, ghosting the architecture of Bach’s iconic G major prelude, on which it is based.

Stream now nmcrecs.lnk.to/GLude

03.10.2025 13:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Day 1 of recording with Plus Minus Ensemble in the bag. Lovely to be in the Dublin Mountains with the mighty Spud Murphy at the helm. New album out with @nmcrecordings.bsky.social in 2026… exciting times ahead

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02.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

This is a really good record, not only the JACK's performance of the title work (written for them), but new interpretations of the others too. Rohan Dasika's Table of Knowledge is fantastic.

26.09.2025 11:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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String Creatures Listen to content by Liza Lim and JACK Quartet.

OUT NOW - Liza Lim: String Creatures

The album explores ‘string’ in a dizzying range of ways, featuring works including 'an ocean beyond earth', 'The Weaver’s Knot', 'The Table of Knowledge' and the titular piece, 'String Creatures'.

Buy/listen now 🔗

26.09.2025 09:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Thank you for this lovely and well-deserved review.

25.09.2025 18:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Clare O’Connell ~ Light Flowing In standard verbiage, light tends to glow, to shine, to radiate. In summoning an image of light as something that might flow, London-based cellist and curator Clare O’Connell evokes a subtle tensio…

Wrote a bit for A Closer Listen about 'Light Flowing,' Clare O'Connell's gorgeous collection of (mostly) solo cello pieces released earlier this year by NMC Recordings

acloserlisten.com/2025/09/20/c...

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20.09.2025 10:04 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Recruitment NMC Recordings is looking to appoint a Marketing and Development Coordinator

⚡️We are Hiring ⚡️

NMC are looking for a Marketing and Development Coordinator - this is an excellent opportunity for an early career arts administrator

Find out more & apply 🔗https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/recruitment

Applications close on Thursday 23 October at 10am

25.09.2025 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📀Coming Soon to NMC 📀
🎶 Liza Lim: String Creatures
📆 Released 26 September 2025

The album gathers together four of Lim’s so-called ‘string creatures’, pieces which explore string both as a material and as a metaphor for relations in the world around us.

12.09.2025 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📀 SINGLE RELEASE 📀

Cat's Cradle (3 diagrams of grief) by Liza Lim is out now on all streaming platforms

You can listen here 🔗 nmcrecs.lnk.to/StringCreatu...

05.09.2025 11:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Music Biennial 2025 Listen to content by Various Artists.

OUT NOW - New Music Biennial 2025

The 2025 edition of NMB 2025 showcases a dynamic mix of brand-new commissions selected through an open call and standout works premiered in the past four years

Listen/Buy now 🔗

29.08.2025 09:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Alex Groves: DANCE SUITE Composer A

Alex Groves on DANCE SUITE

Composer Alex Groves provides an insight into his piece DANCE SUITE written for Zubin Kanga as part of New Music Biennial 2025.

Head to our Discover page to read the full article 🔗

28.08.2025 15:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OUT NOW - Linda Buckley: Thar Farraige

A contemporary chamber music piece weaving Irish and Scottish traditions, exploring love, loss, migration, and the meaning of home, performed by Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ailis Sutherland and the Maxwell Quartet.

Listen now nmcrecs.lnk.to/TharFarraige

27.08.2025 12:00 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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NMC Recordings announces appointment of Sam Mackay as Executive Director NM

🚨 NMC Recordings announces appointment of Sam Mackay as Executive Director 🚨

NMC is delighted to announce that Sam Mackay will succeed Cathy Graham as Executive Director commencing in October 2025.

Read the full press release here 🔗

22.08.2025 17:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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⚡️NMC Partner with The Hinrichsen Foundation⚡️

We are delighted to announce that The Hinrichsen Foundation and NMC Recordings have entered a multi-year partnership from 2025-2028.

Read the full article on NMC Discover here: www.nmcrec.co.uk/discover/nmc...

22.08.2025 14:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OUT NOW - Mark David Boden: Chasing Sunlight

A new audio-visual concerto for the violinist Fenella Humphreys and Sinfonia Cymru, a musical journey inspired by the epic migration of the Arctic Tern.

Listen 🔗https://NMCRecs.lnk.to/ChasingSunlight

20.08.2025 12:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OUT NOW - m3UNTITLED & GOMID: Bantams Drift

A music and multimedia collaboration that deconstructs Yorkshire club music through
soundscapes and visual experimentation to mythologise Bradford’s south asian working-class culture. Commissioned by BrighterSound

Listen 🔗 nmcrecs.lnk.to/BantamsDrift

18.08.2025 12:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OUT NOW - Alex Groves: Dance Suite

A striking, cross-genre work for pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga, fusing Baroque suite forms with hyper-pop energy, queer culture, and cutting-edge music tech. Hosted by PRXLUDES.

Listen now 🔗 nmcrecs.lnk.to/DANCESUITE

15.08.2025 12:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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OUT NOW - Verity Watts: P E A C E

A bold meeting of electronics, rap, double bass, and historic audio, exploring what peace sounds like in 2025 through contrast and commonality. Commissioned by manchester jazz festival

Listen now 🔗 nmcrecs.lnk.to/PEACE

13.08.2025 12:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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August has arrived and so has our summer sale! We are offering 30% off all our releases from the NMC online store for the next three weeks - you can claim your discount now with the code SUMMER30.

Shop now 🔗 nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/collections/...

04.08.2025 16:00 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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OUT NOW - Dali de Saint Paul & Maxwell Sterling: Penumbra

An experimental performance blending improvised music, electroacoustic sound, video and lighting art, re-scored and reimagined for a new context after its 2024 UK tour

Listen 🔗 NMCRecs.lnk.to/Penumbra

11.08.2025 12:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Xenia Pestova Bennett: GLOW
YouTube video by Xenia Pestova Bennett Xenia Pestova Bennett: GLOW

In case you missed it - the lush video art for GLOW by Steve Lee is now available to view mixed with the premiere performance recording from New Music Biennial youtu.be/cjONVUxpgOU @prsfoundation.bsky.social & you can download the recording from @nmcrecordings.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social

09.08.2025 07:34 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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August has arrived and so has our summer sale! We are offering 30% off all our releases from the NMC online store for the next three weeks - you can claim your discount now with the code SUMMER30.

Shop now 🔗 nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/collections/...

04.08.2025 16:00 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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OUT NOW - Uri Agnon: MARCH

A powerful and joyful exploration of the rhythms, dynamics, and emotions of political marching, blending monologue, mass protest, and an absurdist game show. Commissioned by Contemporary Music for All (CoMA)

Listen now 🔗 nmcrecs.lnk.to/March

04.08.2025 12:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Halina Rice, BBC Concert Orchestra, Ellie Slorach - The Path (Live) Listen to The Path (Live) by Halina Rice, BBC Concert Orchestra, Ellie Slorach.

OUT NOW - Halina Rice: The Path

An immersive exploration of constancy & change, where shifting landscapes and steady progress converge to form something entirely new. Commissioned by BBC Orchestras, performed by BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Ellie Slorach

Listen now🔗

02.08.2025 12:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OUT NOW - @xeniapestova.bsky.social: GLOW

A shimmering, magical sound-world blending the Magnetic Resonator Piano with a contemporary chamber ensemble

Listen now 🔗 nmcrecs.lnk.to/Glow

01.08.2025 14:14 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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OUT NOW - Xenia Pestova Bennett: GLOW

A shimmering, magical sound-world blending the Magnetic Resonator Piano with a contemporary chamber ensemble

@BBCRadio3 @PRSFoundation @southbankcentre
@bradford2025

🔗https://NMCRecs.lnk.to/Glow

01.08.2025 14:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ghost Weavers Listen to content by Stef Conner and Ensemble 1604.

OUT NOW - Stef Conner: Ghost Weavers

A contemporary work weaving Bradford’s wool heritage, folk song, and spoken testimonials into an immersive, multi-layered sound experience. Commissioned by The Night With..., performed by ensemble 1604.

Listen now 🔗

30.07.2025 12:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today marks the official release of Moth x Human and the end of National Moth Week!

To celebrate, download or stream the stunning sound project from @elliewilsonuk.bsky.social exploring the hidden nighttime world of moths and enjoy our five fantastic moth facts!

nmcrecs.lnk.to/MothxHuman

25.07.2025 14:13 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Ellie Wilson, Jay Chakravorty, Huw Evans, Freya Hicks, Louise McMonagle - Moth x Human (Live) Listen to Moth x Human (Live) by Ellie Wilson, Jay Chakravorty, Huw Evans, Freya Hicks, Louise McMonagle.

Out today on all streaming platforms 🦋
'Ellie Wilson's haunting Moth x Human, turned data about night-time moth activity intoa beguiling synthesised fabric.' The Guardian ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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nmcrecs.lnk.to/MothxHuman

25.07.2025 15:46 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

OUT NOW - Hardi Kurda & Sarah Jackson: Voice Notes

Celebrating the voices of those who have experienced displacement, combines messages from refugees and migrants, with electroacoustic sound manipulation and directional speakers

Listen now🔗 nmcrecs.lnk.to/DhamaalCore

23.07.2025 12:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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