I Care If You Listen: The Unheard Mixtape 1: Follow to the End Celebrates Experimentation and Black Expressive Culture
Matthew Evan Taylor’s The Unheard Mixtapes has reconciled his artistic identity as a classical composer focused on social justice, Black expressive culture, and experimentalism.
WNYC: Captivating Chamber-Electro-Pop by Emily Wells with Metropolis Ensemble
For this world is too ___ for you, Emily Wells works in the space between art-pop and neoclassical chamber music using electronic and acoustic instruments and hip-hop production in elegant layers to support her singular and dramatic vocals.
The Nation: The Genre of Post-Genre
William Brittelle’s Spiritual America has drawn from classical music, punk rock, and electronica to produce music that is at once free-ranging and a thrill to experience.
Paste: "And Then You Shoot Your Cousin" Review
In “…And Then You Shoot Your Cousin,” The Roots prove their mastery of mixing high and low culture for diverse audiences. It’s a headier album, but one rife with significance.
Rolling Stone: Cousin Review
In The Roots’ …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin, pianos and strings clash in explosions of third-stream jazz, French electro-acoustic pioneer Michel Chion brings noise, deep-blue tones vibrate like Miles Davis' Porgy and Bess.
NPR: Classical Lost And Found: The Versatile Sound Of Vivian Fung
Dreamscapes is magnificent with virtuosic performances… a spectacular sounding disc… by one of today’s most eclectic composers.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "Home Stretch" Review
In the reinvention of the Coronation Concerto on Home Stretch, Andres lets his imagination fill in the gaps, and creates a lovely amalgam of Mozartian classicism and modern pianistic sensibility.
The Guardian: "Home Stretch" Album
The centrepiece of this latest collection on Home Stretch is a perfect example of Andres's playful intelligence and individuality.
American Record Guide: Dreamscapes Review
Vivian Fung’s Dreamscapes is a cutting-edge album in the best sense, an invigorating indication of where we are in classical music.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Dreamscapes Review
At every point in the disc, Fung has a strong sense of thematic control and structural overview that suggests more great things to come.
Rolling Stone: "Undun" Review
“The Roots’ 13th release is a concept album with a bravura twist: It narrates the story of a bootstrapping hustler in reverse, from death to birth.“
New York Times: Avner Dorman "Concertos"
Avner Dorman writes with an omnivorous eclecticism that makes his music on Concertos both accessible and impossible to pigeonhole.