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...
Press Round-Up: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society’s Brooklyn Babylon
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...
Caroline Shaw Wins 2013 Pulitzer Prize
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...
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...
Q2 Album of the Week – Jace Clayton’s The Julius Eastman Memory Depot
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...
Preview Coverage for Nadia Sirota’s Baroque
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...
Update: Indianapolis Symphony & New Amsterdam Partnership
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...
Tin Hat’s West Coast Tour of the rain is a handsome animal
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...
Hurricane Recovery Update
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...
Build Premieres New Video for Ride
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....
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...
