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MC Maguire – Trash of Civilizations
MC Maguire is a composer who has been working since the 1970s. His works fuse elements of modern classical and pop culture. Trash of Civilizations presents two long-form pieces for live instruments and…
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Susan Fancher – In Two Worlds
“Susan Fancher is known for her deep and poetic musical interpretations. Her work to develop the repertoire for the saxophone has produced dozens of commissioned works, as well as published transcriptions of music…
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Cornelius Dufallo – Dream Streets
Remember Cornelius from Planet of the Apes? Well, this is definitely not him. While that Cornelius, a chimpanzee who lives in the year 3978, is an archaeologist concerned with digging up the remnants…
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Barry Schrader – Monkey King
“In the ancient Chinese land of Ao-lai, on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit was a magic rock. This rock gave birth to an egg which hatched into a stone monkey. So begins…
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Val-Inc – On
No, Val-Inc is not a company. It’s a person whose real name is Val Jeanty. Originally from Haiti, but residing in New York City since the late-1990s, Val composes a style of music…
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William Albright – Music for Saxophones
Punk band Fear once “sang” that New York’s all right if you like saxophones. The same could be said of this CD, which an all-sax outfit called the Prism Quartet completely crams full…
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Roger Kleier – The Night Has Many Hours
Roger Kleier (born 1958) is a “composer, guitarist, improviser and producer who began playing electric guitar at age 13 after discovering Captain Beefheart and Jimi Hendrix. He studied composition at North Texas State…
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Arcane Candy’s 2009 Favorite Releases
(In alphabetical order by artist name.) New Releases • Sir Richard Bishop – The Freak of Araby LP (Drag City) • GAS – Nah und Fern 4-CD box set (Kompakt) • Group Bombino…
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Cristian Amigo – Kingdom of Jones
A note to my ears: Cristian Amigo is your friend. This New York-based composer / guitarist cooks up various and sundry sounds into a tasty sonic stew, then hands you the ladle. Kingdom…
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Mark Applebaum – Asylum
Mark Applebaum (born 1967) is a composer of solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, operatic and electro-acoustic music, and a jazz pianist who also builds sound sculptures. He earned a Ph.D. in composition from the…
