ANNOUNCING: Daniel Wohl’s Corps Exquis
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...
Jace Clayton’s The Julius Eastman Memory Depot Press Round-Up
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...
ANNOUNCING: Big Farm’s Self-Titled Debut Album
NYC-based four-piece Big Farm will release their self-titled debut album May 28th on New Amsterdam Records. “Something like a Blind Faith–style supergroup for new-music cognoscenti” (Time Out New York), Big Farm features four of today’s most revered and vital composer/performers: Grammy winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist vocalist-lyricist Rinde Eckert; in-demand electric bassist Mark Haanstra; Grammy winner and pioneering composer/guitarist...
ANNOUNCING: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society to release Brooklyn Babylon
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...
ANNOUNCING: Jace Clayton’s The Julius Eastman Memory Depot
Jace Clayton (also known as DJ /rupture) will release his new album, The Julius Eastman Memory Depot, on March 26 on New Amsterdam Records. On the album, Clayton again brings his sense of compassion, wide-eyed exploration, and razor-sharp intellect to the table, but instead of using a variety of sources for inspiration, for the first time,...
ANNOUNCING: Nadia Sirota’s Baroque
It’s not hard to understand why celebrated violist Nadia Sirota chose Baroque for the title of her sophomore album, out March 26th on New Amsterdam Records and on Bedroom Community in the UK/EU. The follow-up to Sirota’s 2009 debut First Things First (a New York Times record of the year), Baroque is as intricate and ornate as its name suggests, adorning Sirota’s singular interpretive voice...
Michael Mizrahi: The Bright Motion Performances
New Amsterdam recording artist and pianist Michael Mizrahi has several performances coming up following the success of his debut album, The Bright Motion. First on Sunday, September 30, he will perform selections from The Bright Motion in a live broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio at 12:30pm, which can be heard streaming live on Wisconsin Public Radio. Additionally...
ANNOUNCING: Tin Hat’s the rain is a handsome animal
San Francisco-based quartet Tin Hat released their sixth studio album, the rain is a handsome animal, on August 28th on New Amsterdam Records. 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 largely around the remarkable singing of Tin Hat violinist Carla Kihlstedt. Each of...
ANNOUNCING: Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar
Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt, a multimedia chamber opera by Missy Mazzoli and fimmaker Stephen Taylor will be released on New Amsterdam Records on November 13, 2012. Conceived in collaboration with director Gia Forakis and librettist Royce Vavrek, the album is an original cast recording featuring performances by mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer, NOW Ensemble, conductor...
ANNOUNCING: Aaron Roche’s !BlurMyEyes
Composer, performer, and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Roche released his lush song cycle !BlurMyEyes July 31st on New Amsterdam Records, his first album on the label. Described by the artist as “a sort of musical study in ceremony,” the EP reflects a vision that is both sweepingly ambitious in scope and refreshingly unpretentious. Roche manages to weave together...
Press Round-Up: Michael Mizrahi’s The Bright Motion
With this album of recently composed works for solo piano, Michael Mizrahi showcases the continued vitality of an instrument that evokes an exceptionally rich musical heritage yet is still capable of expressing the most contemporary of musical ideas. The Bright Motion brings together a collection of works composed within the past five years, including works...
Press Round-Up: William Brittelle & ACME’s Loving the Chambered Nautilus
Loving the Chambered Nautilus is William Brittelle’s iconoclastic follow-up to the art rock epic Television Landscape. Unlike it’s predecessor, this album focuses on chamber virtuosity and intimacy. Guitars and vocals (aside from Caleb Burhans brief appearance on the closing title track) are conspicuously absent, recalling Radiohead’s startling OK Computer to Kid A transition. Loving the Chambered Nautilus was written...
