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May 20, 2013 • Brooklyn-based electroacoustic composer/performer Daniel Wohl, praised as one of his generation’s “imaginative and skillful creators” (The New York Times), will release his debut album Corps Exquis June 25 on New Amsterdam Records. Wohl’s music is performed by acclaimed new music quintet TRANSIT on the disc, and features guest performances by Aaron Roche, Julia Holter and So Percussion. Wohl and TRANSIT will celebrate...
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May 8, 2013 • Brooklyn-based composer-bandleader Darcy James Argue and his innovative 18-piece big band Secret Society released their highly anticipated sophomore album, Brooklyn Babylon, April 30th on New Amsterdam Records, and the album has already been receiving a significant amount of praise from multiple press outlets. Downbeat Magazine recently named the album an Editor’s Pick for May 2013, stating that “Argue refuses to...
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Apr 15, 2013 • Partita for 8 Voices by Caroline Shaw has been awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music! The 26-minute four-movement work composed between 2009-2012 was recorded by the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth for New Amsterdam (released on October 30, 2012). The prize is for a “distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its...
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Apr 2, 2013 • Jace Clayton (also known as DJ /rupture) has been receiving a significant amount of press coverage for his new album, The Julius Eastman Memory Depot, recently released on New Amsterdam Records. Pitchfork’s Jayson Greene gave the album a 7.8 score, stating that Clayton has a ”searingly immediate communion with Eastman’s vital, contrary spirit.” Textura called the album...
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Mar 19, 2013 • WQXR’s Q2 has featured Jace Clayton’s (also known as DJ /rupture) new album, The Julius Eastman Memory Depot, as their Album of the Week! In addition to free streaming of the album, Q2′s Seth Colter Walls stated that Clayton’s “trailblazing, confrontational spirit lives on in his compositions, right down to their titles.” The Julius Eastman Memory Depot is slated...
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Mar 19, 2013 • Nadia Sirota’s sophomore album Baroque, set to release March 26 on New Amsterdam Records and on Bedroom Community in the UK/EU, has already been receiving a significant amount of press coverage. Steve Smith of Time Out New York called the record “luminous, restless and contemplative by turns, the disc proves that the viola is anything but a...
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Mar 13, 2013 • New Amsterdam is honored to have recently teamed up with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in a unique residency that will focus on artistic exploration into many forms of music in a symphonic format. Over the next two years, the ISO will periodically showcase the sophisticated, adventurous sound of highly-trained composers and instrumentalists from the New Amsterdam...
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Mar 1, 2013 • Following up on the successful release of their sixth studio album, the rain is a handsome animal, San Francisco-based quartet Tin Hat begins a west coast tour this month featuring songs from the record. The 17-track song cycle is based on the visionary modernist poetry of American poet E.E. Cummings and, for the first time in the band’s history, centers...
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Feb 21, 2013 • In October, 2012, Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Amsterdam headquarters in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Since May of last year, when we signed the lease on a 3000-square-foot warehouse on Van Dyke Street, two blocks from New York Harbor, the New Amsterdam staff (with help from our artists and friends!) had been working hard to gradually...
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Feb 21, 2013 • Violinist-composer Matt McBane’s Build has recently premiered a new video, Ride, on Q2 Music. Ride appears on Build’s 2011 sophomore record Place, released on New Amsterdam Records in 2011. The video’s release corresponds with two upcoming California shows for the band next month: one at UC Davis with pianist Lara Downes, the other at the San Francisco Switchboard Festival....
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Feb 14, 2013 • Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society to release Brooklyn Babylon April 30th on New Amsterdam Records “A masterpiece… a new work of originality, power, and beauty that left an audience slack-jawed.” — David Krasnow, Studio 360, on Brooklyn Babylon “Big band music like you’ve never heard… thoroughly immersed in modern sounds and sensibilities.” — Andy Whitman, Paste Brooklyn-based composer-bandleader Darcy James Argue...
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Jan 27, 2013 • Coming on the heels of its highly-successful relationship with its classically-trained, genre-bending ensemble-in-residence Time for Three, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra recently announced another unique residency with a similar mission of artistic exploration into many forms of music in a symphonic format. For the next two years, the Indianapolis Symphony will team up with New Amsterdam to...
