There's an uncompromising beauty to these works in “The Strange Highway” by the Iranian-born American composer, Gity Razaz. The closing “Metamorphosis of Narcissus” offers some fantastic musical storytelling. Impressive. Four stars.
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Telekinesis ascends like sharp blades and stairs to madness or wide-ranging, dismay and illusory quiet, generating swirls in a closed circle of sensations.
Fans of this electronic and orchestral specialist have been waiting for the next big statement. And here it is... Tyondai Braxton in full command of his art.
Remarkable… the best kind of soundtrack: one with the power to cast whatever surroundings you find yourself in in a more interesting hue.
Frankly, everyone involved in the production of Telekinesis should take a bow for just how magnificently produced and orchestrated it is.
Him Sophy’s Bangsokol stands on its own as an extraordinary musical experience that brings cultures and people together while serving as a model for how art can be a powerful vehicle for reconciliation in post-conflict societies.
Matthew Evan Taylor’s The Unheard Mixtapes has reconciled his artistic identity as a classical composer focused on social justice, Black expressive culture, and experimentalism.
For this world is too ___ for you, Emily Wells works in the space between art-pop and neoclassical chamber music using electronic and acoustic instruments and hip-hop production in elegant layers to support her singular and dramatic vocals.
William Brittelle’s Spiritual America has drawn from classical music, punk rock, and electronica to produce music that is at once free-ranging and a thrill to experience.
In “…And Then You Shoot Your Cousin,” The Roots prove their mastery of mixing high and low culture for diverse audiences. It’s a headier album, but one rife with significance.
In The Roots’ …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin, pianos and strings clash in explosions of third-stream jazz, French electro-acoustic pioneer Michel Chion brings noise, deep-blue tones vibrate like Miles Davis' Porgy and Bess.
Dreamscapes is magnificent with virtuosic performances… a spectacular sounding disc… by one of today’s most eclectic composers.
In the reinvention of the Coronation Concerto on Home Stretch, Andres lets his imagination fill in the gaps, and creates a lovely amalgam of Mozartian classicism and modern pianistic sensibility.
The centrepiece of this latest collection on Home Stretch is a perfect example of Andres's playful intelligence and individuality.
Vivian Fung’s Dreamscapes is a cutting-edge album in the best sense, an invigorating indication of where we are in classical music.
At every point in the disc, Fung has a strong sense of thematic control and structural overview that suggests more great things to come.
Avner Dorman writes with an omnivorous eclecticism that makes his music on Concertos both accessible and impossible to pigeonhole.