New Focus Recordings

Highlighting the ensembles’ virtuosity and range, the works also demonstrate the diversity of compositional approaches to percussion ensemble writing in the current contemporary music scene

Coming out this Friday — Portland Percussion Group: Patterns & Form

Portland Percussion Group’s newest release features three works commissioned by the ensemble by Alejandro Viñao, Mendel Lee, and Daniel Webbon

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Mariel Roberts Musa: Sunder, Mariel Roberts Musa - Qobuz Listen to unlimited streaming or download Mariel Roberts Musa: Sunder by Mariel Roberts Musa in Hi-Res quality on Qobuz. Subscriptions from $10.83/month.

The two works on the album, sunder & Lightning Field, reflect Musa’s interest in place, perception, and the ways sound can reveal hidden relationships within constructed and natural environments

Sunder, by Mariel Roberts Musa 8 track album

Out now — Mariel Roberts Musa: Sunder

Two works by composer & cellist Mariel Roberts Musa, featuring pianist Conor Hanick, and cellists Felix Fan & Roberts Musa herself

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Mariel Roberts Musa: sunder I Mariel Roberts Musa: sunder I Conor Hanick, piano From FCR484 Mariel Roberts Musa: Sunder Coming out February 6th, links to pre-order/buy below! Bandcamp: https://marielroberts.bandcamp.com/album/su

From composer & cellist Mariel Roberts Musa's new album Sunder coming out tomorrow, here's a track from the title work performed by pianist Conor Hanick

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Sunder is built from recordings made directly on the U.S.–Mexico border wall, allowing the piano to interact with the wall’s subtle resonances and surrounding environment

Lightning Field draws inspiration from Walter De Maria’s land artwork, translating its sense of vast space into sound

Coming out this Friday — Mariel Roberts Musa: Sunder

Listening is central to composer Mariel Roberts Musa’s music, which engages landscapes shaped by physical presence, human meaning, and the subtle intersections of sound and politics

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Photo credits: Alireza Amirhajebi by AmirAli Piroozbakhsh, Laibach (Janez Gabrič, Luka Jamnik, Milan Fras, Donna Marina Mårtensson, Jani Novak) via the artists, Alireza Mashayekhi via Toos Foundation, Kalevi Aho by Kuva Rajattu, Marc-André Hamelin by Benjamin Ealovega, Anthony Braxton via Mosaic Records, Creative Orchestra Music 1976 artwork by Frederick J. Brown, Anahita Abbasi by Michael Schell, Nasim Khorassani via the artist, Wet Ink Ensemble (Antonio, Lesser, Pluta, Mincek, Soper, Wubbels, Modney) via the artists, Ata Ebtekar AKA Sote via the artist, Iranian Female Composers Association by Deniz Khateri, Hiyoli Togawa by Anne Hornemann. Flotation Device features creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, Sunday nights 10pm–Midnight Pacific Time on 91.3 KBCS-FM Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma. Visit us online at https://www.mixcloud.com/FlotationDevice

Tonight Flotation Device begins its 50-year celebration to Anthony Braxton's Creative Orchestra Music 1976. Plus a salute to the Iranian avant-garde (w/Sote, IFCA & Laibach), and new albums by Kalevi Aho and Marc-André Hamelin.
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Richard Carrick: L'Algérie, Either/Or - Qobuz Listen to unlimited streaming or download Richard Carrick: L'Algérie by Either/Or in Hi-Res quality on Qobuz. Subscriptions from $10.83/month.

The second part of a trilogy of large-scale works inspired in part by the music of the Maghreb, l’Algérie is the most introspective and autobiographical piece of the project, drawing on the composer’s own family heritage and deeply personal exploration of the area’s richly varied musical traditions

Out now — Richard Carrick: l’Algérie

An album length work by composer Richard Carrick inspired by the music of the Maghreb in North Africa, featuring the Either/Or Ensemble

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Richard Carrick: l’Algérie: Les Cloches Richard Carrick: l’Algérie: Les Cloches Either/Or: Bahar Badieitabar, oud; Richard Carrick, piano; Jennifer Choi, violin; Justin Jay Hines, percussion; John Popham, cello From FCR479 Richard Carrick:

From composer & pianist Richard Carrick's new album length work coming out tomorrow, here's a movement from l’Algérie performed by Either/Or Ensemble

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Richard Carrick: L'Algérie, Either/Or - Qobuz Listen to unlimited streaming or download Richard Carrick: L'Algérie by Either/Or in Hi-Res quality on Qobuz. Subscriptions from $10.83/month.

This newest album-length work, performed by Either/Or Ensemble, l’Algérie is the second part of a trilogy of large-scale works inspired in part by the music of the Maghreb region of North Africa, drawing on Carrick's own family background and a fresh approach to the region's diverse musical heritage

Coming out this Friday — Richard Carrick: l’Algérie

Composer & pianist Richard Carrick's recent work fuses his penchant for long form composition, fluency in extended techniques, versatile performance practice and interest in structured improvisation

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Tonight's Geography of Sound will focus on new recordings with chamber works by Daniel Pesca, Mark Abel and Christopher Stark.
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Viola Revival: Mid-Century Works by Marion Bauer, Ulysses Kay & Margaret Bonds

Viola Revival champions works by three significant African American composers, Marion Bauer, Ulysses Kay, and Margaret Bonds, each of whom made significant contributions to the concert music community of their day

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Viola Revival: Mid-Century Works by Marion Bauer, Ulysses Kay & Margaret Bonds, by Jonathan Bagg 8 track album

Out now — Jonathan Bagg: Viola Revival — Mid-Century Works by Marion Bauer, Ulysses Kay & Margaret Bonds

Three viola and piano sonatas from mid-century American composers Marion Bauer, Ulysses Kay, and Margaret Bonds, performed by violist Jonathan Bagg with pianists Emely Phelps and Mimi Solomon

Ulysses Kay: Sonata for Viola and Piano: II. Allegro Ulysses Kay: Sonata for Viola and Piano: II. Allegro Jonathan Bagg, viola; Emely Phelps, piano From FCR477 Jonathan Bagg: Viola Revival: Mid-Century Works by Marion Bauer, Ulysses Kay & Margaret Bond

From violist Jonathan Bagg's new album Viola Revival coming out tomorrow, here's a movement from Ulysses Kay's Sonata for Viola and Piano performed with pianist Emely Phelps

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Viola Revival: Mid-Century Works by Marion Bauer, Ulysses Kay & Margaret Bonds

Bagg sheds light on well deserving repertoire by three composers whose contributions to the larger musical field went far beyond their fine music

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Coming out this Friday — Jonathan Bagg: Viola Revival

Violist Jonathan Bagg, with pianists Emely Phelps and Mimi Solomon, unearth three overlooked gems of the mid-20th century chamber repertoire by Marion Bauer, Ulysses Kay, and Margaret Bonds

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Eric Moe: WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS, Eric Moe - Qobuz Listen to unlimited streaming or download Eric Moe: WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS by Eric Moe in Hi-Res quality on Qobuz. Subscriptions from $10.83/month.

Piano is at the center of composer Eric Moe’s newest release, organized into five solo pieces, three of which he performs, plus a quintet in which the piano plays a leading role

WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS, by Eric Moe 6 track album

Out now — Eric Moe: WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS

Five new works featuring the piano by composer & pianist Eric Moe, with pianists Solungga Liu & Moe, and New York New Music Ensemble

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Eric Moe: WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS Eric Moe: WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS New York New Music Ensemble: Emi Ferguson, flutes; Adrián Sandí, clarinets; Karen Kim, violin; Chris Finckel, cello; Stephen Gosling, piano; Eduardo Lean

From composer & pianist Eric Moe's new album coming out tomorrow, here's the title work WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS

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Eric Moe: WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS, Eric Moe - Qobuz Listen to unlimited streaming or download Eric Moe: WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS by Eric Moe in Hi-Res quality on Qobuz. Subscriptions from $10.83/month.

Drawing on some of his most common sources of inspiration, namely natural, scientific, and social phenomena, Moe deftly integrates his observations about various paradigms into the aesthetic and musical vocabulary of his music

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Coming out this Friday — Eric Moe: WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS

Composer & pianist Eric Moe's newest release is a collection of five works for solo keyboard and one quintet that centers the instrument in his compositional output

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Ken Ueno: Wavelengths

Wavelengths is a collection of four works, three for various percussion instruments, and one for his own voice with sampled electronics, highlighting Ueno’s sensitivity to timbral modulation & his aesthetic convictions about temporal evolution and how it is manifested in the structure of his pieces

Wavelengths, by Ken Ueno 4 track album

Out now — @djmoderne.bsky.social: Wavelengths

Four new works by composer Ken Ueno, featuring percussionist Karen Yu, The Up:Strike Project, ADRUNNOGNT, and Ueno himself

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Ken Ueno: Phase Patterns of Likeness Slightly Off Ken Ueno: Phase Patterns of Likeness Slightly Off The Up:Strike Project From FCR460 Ken Ueno: Wavelengths Coming out January 9th, links to pre-order/buy below! Bandcamp: https://newfocusrecordings.b

From composer @djmoderne.bsky.social's new album Wavelengths coming out tomorrow, here's Phase Patterns of Likeness Slightly Off performed by The Up:Strike Project

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Ken Ueno: Wavelengths

The works on this recording share an interest in microtonality, transformation of noise timbres into pitched material, and an investigation of instrumental possibilities

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Coming out this Friday — @djmoderne.bsky.social: Wavelengths

Ken Ueno's creative approach to composition shares an affinity with the percussion world; there is an underlying spirit of experimentation, problem solving, and deconstruction

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Hemlocks, Peacocks, by Will Mason Quartet 7 track album

Modern jazz via @willmasonmusic.com / @newfocuslabel.bsky.social now

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