On his fourth release on Orindal Records, Matt Bachmann’s Compost Karaoke is a representation of “songs of change”, as he explains. It’s a transition from his previous years touring as the bass player for Mega Bog.
“At the heart of this transition was a personal struggle between the ‘clouds’ (art) and the ‘earth’ (the systemic problems of New York/US/world),” he says. “Doing this more earthly work and having less time for the clouds changed my relationship to music. I had been so inside the music world that I had become blind to its generosity – the way it brings us together and allows us to collectively feel, dream, and escape.”
Adding that this new project was an opportunity to work alongside old friends, Bachmann…
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Many musicians are content to write and perform songs, while others continuously explore deeper territory. Clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer 
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The 2022 debut from Kansas City duo 
Katie Schecter’s third studio album, Empress, offers another modern take on the retro sounds that have inspired her. The Nashville (via New York) singer-songwriter recorded the album live while pregnant with her daughter.
Mandolinist 
As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep begins with a real swagger. ‘Pistol and a List of Demands’ opens with great energy: piano and guitar with a pulsing beat lead the way in a romanticised tale of a renegade on the run. 
…Bones of Trees is Tim Grimm’s 13th album, and it is a beautifully crafted collection of personal, historical and political songs.
The Doldrums is the debut solo release from Canadian singer-songwriter 
Soul Jazz Records’ new Soul Jamaica brings together a wicked selection of reggae funk and soul tracks from the legendary Studio One stable, featuring a stellar line-up of artists including Jackie Mittoo, The Heptones, The Gladiators, Sim Smith, Peter Tosh and The Wailers, Cedric ‘Im’ Brooks and many more. For a short period of time at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s, nestled between the end of rocksteady and the arrival of roots reggae, Studio One released a small stream of superb soul and funk reggae tunes – covering everyone from Sly and The Family Stone, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Nina Simone, Gene Chandler, Tyrone Davis and more.
Whereas Rudersdal Chamber Players focused on chamber music by Poul Ruders on its 2022 debut recording, the quintet’s latest concentrates on works by Elena Firsova (b. 1950) and Dmitri Smirnov (1948-2020). Their story is as fascinating as their music, so much so that no appreciation of the latter is complete without some familiarity with their histories as marriage partners and creative artists. But first a few words about the Nordic ensemble Rudersdal Chamber Players (RCP), whose 2017 founding by violinist Christine Pryn came, interestingly enough, at the behest of Lera Auerbach. While visiting the festival Rudersdal Sommerkoncerter, the Russian-American composer suggested that an ensemble of high-profile chamber musicians could…
As two of the three works on Pacific Triptych illustrate, 
The Orchestra of the Swan has recorded its share of repertory material, much of it from the 20th century, but the 2020s have brought some highly effective thematic recordings from the group and its conductor, David Le Page.
It feels an indictment to label someone’s work as gloomy, as though it’s something that happens and not something that’s chosen. But on her latest album, Sabbatical, 
American saxophonist and composer