WQXR’s Q2 has featured Daniel Wohl’s new album, Corps Exquis, as their Album of the Week! In addition to free streaming of the album, Q2′s Daniel Stephen Johnson stated that Wohl has an “easy knack for electro-acoustics” and that “Corps Exquis adds up to more than the sum of its parts.”

Corps Exquis also features vocals by Julia Holter and Aaron Roche, and performances by So Percussion and TRANSIT. It is available now digitally via Amazon and will officially be released by New Amsterdam Records on June 25. For more info on the album, click HERE.

New Am artist Aaron Roche has recently contributed to If You Wait Long Enough: Songs of Will Stratton, a compilation album to benefit songwriter Will Stratton, who was diagnosed with stage III testicular cancer last September and has spent the better part of the last year fighting his way back to recovery. As a way to help Stratton recover from the cancer, artists including Roche have contributed to this new album, in which all the proceeds go directly to Stratton.

For more info on the album and to purchase it, click HERE.

For the second year in a row, ECSTATIC Summer will continue the surprising musical match-making that has become a hallmark of the ECSTATIC Music Festival, hailed as “the most bracing combinations of adventurous, fulfilling music in recent memory” by National Public Radio’s Joel Harrison. The series is presented by Arts Brookfield and curated by New Amsterdam Presents in association with Kaufman Music Center as part of the River To River Festival.

Bringing together musical innovators from the indie, pop, jazz, and classical realms, ECSTATIC® Summer will showcase eight world-premiere compositions from Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Reggie Pace (Bon Iver), Dave Douglas, Susie Ibarra, Seth Olinsky (Akron/Family), People Get Ready, Holly Herndon, and Son Lux.

Part concert and part “happening,” the works will be presented over the course of two site-specific acoustic sets each night; one devoted to brass instruments and the other dedicated entirely to percussion. The festival will feature a wide variety of percussionists, with Mantra Percussion (“…an ethereal aura of sound”, Philadelphia Inquirer) forming the core, and on the brass side, TILT Brass (a “vivacious inventive new-music ensemble”, New York Times), who are appearing as part of their “Tilt 10″ 10th-anniversary celebration.

“More than a mere concert, ECSTATIC Summer represents the creative spirit that has always made New York City a mecca for new music,” said Debra Simon, Vice President and Artistic Director of Arts Brookfield. “People who come to this year’s ECSTATIC Summer will leave Brookfield Place knowing they have experienced something truly unique and special.”

Last year’s inaugural ECSTATIC Summer featured Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, disco-revivalists Escort, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang. The New York Times noted in a review of last year’s concert that “composers whose styles are usually worlds apart collaborated on a program that gave the impression that they were of a single mind.”

For more info on ECSTATIC Summer, click HERE.

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Called “vital and absorbing” (Nate Chinen,The New York Times) and “gorgeous and spellbinding” (Jon Garelick, The Boston Globe), Brooklyn Babylon was conceived in collaboration with Croatian-born visual artist Danijel Zezelj, whose artwork evokes a larger-than-life, mythic Brooklyn, where past, present, and future coexist.

This narrative inspired Argue’s mash-up of musical styles for the project: progressive jazz, early-American popular styles, Balkan folk musics, and the sounds of Brooklyn’s diverse contemporary music scene (including LCD Soundsystem, Dirty Projectors and more). Listen to Argue discuss the project with Studio 360′s Kurt Anderson HERE.

A limited-edition hardcover graphic novel by Zezelj, entitled Babilon, will be available soon.

For more info on the (Le) Poisson Rouge show, click HERE.

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