Single version of Andrew Norman's "Music in Circles" performed by yMusic, from yMusic's highly anticipated sophomore album, Balance Problems.

Coming September 30 on New Amsterdam Records.

Balance Problems features compositions by Nico Muhly, Andrew Norman, Marcos Balter, Timo Andres, Jeremy Turner, Mark Dancigers, and Sufjan Stevens.

yMusic - Music in Circles (Excerpt)

Track 1 from the forthcoming Missy Mazzoli album, Vespers for a New Dark Age.  Performed by Victoire, Glenn Kotche, and Lorna Dune.

Pre-order the album here: missymazzoli.bandcamp.com/album/vespers-for-a-new-dark-age

Watch the trailer here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoi914oFewQ

Read more:  http://newamrecords.com/mazzoli-vespers


Missy Mazzoli - Vespers For A New Dark Age: Wayward Free Radical Dreams

From Roomful of Teeth's forthcoming sophomore album, Render.  Out April 28th on New Amsterdam Records.  Pre-order here:  https://roomfulofteeth.bandcamp.com/

Performed by Roomful of Teeth.  Composed by Wally Gunn.  Text by Maria Zajkowski.  Featuring Jason Treuting on percussion.

Roomful of Teeth - The Ascendant: The Beginning And (Wally Gunn)

From the forthcoming album, Dreamfall.  Out May 26th on New Amsterdam Records.  Pre-order:  https://nowensemble.bandcamp.com/album/dreamfall

NOW Ensemble - City Boy (composed by Judd Greenstein)

Delicious 03 Kite (from Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall (kite and finger run))

Coming digitally on May 13, 2016 and physically on May 27, 2016 on New Amsterdam Records and VIA Records.

Recorded at STUDIO ZONA DOLCE
Mixed at MIRA VE STUDIOS
 
RYAN KELLY Producer, Mixer & Engineer
JEFFREY ZEIGLER Co-Producer
WILLIAM BRITTELLE Co-Producer
TREVOR LITSEY Production Assistant
JAY WUJUN YOW Pro Tools Engineer & Editor
BARBARA SCHUCKO Mixing Assistant & Editor
WILLIAM CARSON GRAHAM additional vocal effects
CHRIS DAVIS Dialogue Editor
 
All instrumental music recorded at
MINBAL & TRICK INDUSTRIES, Chicago
PATRICK BURNS Producer, Mixer & Engineer
 
OSCAR ZAMBRANO - ZAMPOL PRODUCTIONS Mastering

PAOLA PRESTINI Director, VisionIntoArt
COURTENAY CASEY Managing Director, VisionIntoArt
NATALIA SCHWIEN Label Director, VisionIntoArt
JESSICA KIGER, Project Manager, VisionIntoArt

MURAT EYUBOGLU Artistic Director
 
Commissioning support for The Colorado music score made in part by National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.  
 
Roomful of Teeth
 
ESTELÍ GOMEZ Soprano
MARTHA CLUVER Soprano
ELIZA BAGG Alto
VIRGINIA WARNKEN Alto
ERIC DUDLEY Tenor
STEVE BRADSHAW Tenor
AVERY GRIFFIN Baritone
THOMAS McCARGAR Baritone
DASHON BURTON Bass-Baritone
CAMERON BEAUCHAMP Bass
 
JEFF GAVETT & CAMERON BEAUCHAMP Music Directors
BRAD WELLS Artistic Director
 
JEFFREY ZEIGLER Cello
GLENN KOTCHE Percussion
JAMES MOORE Banjo (track 7) 


Roomful of Teeth – An Unknown Distance Yet To Run – composed by Shara (Worden) Nova

From the new album, Unbound.  Coming March 17, 2017 on Sono Luminus and New Amsterdam Records.

Pre-order the album:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MTCID7M/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_wipMybF9ZAN03

Read more:  http://newamrecords.com/jasper-unbound

The Jasper String Quartet has spent a decade performing premier works old and new at top concert halls around the world, but for the creation of Unbound, they looked close to home for inspiration. With an equal mix of men and women, the members of the Quartet sought to create an album that represents themselves and their community. Using Judd Greenstein’s “Four on the Floor” as a centerpiece — a virtuosic, dynamic piece that requires togetherness and spirit to perform — the Quartet built a collection of moving, post-genre, and technically impressive works by male and female composers close to their generation. An album for and reflective of right now, Unbound is unbound by convention, yet retains the performance quality expected of a traditional classically trained string quartet. 

Releasing Unbound on both New Amsterdam Records and Sono Luminus is an extension of the album’s ideals. New Amsterdam is celebrated for its commitment to releasing expertly performed post-genre music, and Sono Luminus is praised for its meticulous recording process that pulls the best performances out of its groups. Unbound captures the spirit of both labels, and the spirit of the Jasper String Quartet.

Words about Unbound from the Jasper String Quartet: 

“Seeking out new pieces to contribute to this conversation is as important, if not more so, as rediscovering the sublime human experience of a Beethoven quartet. The seven pieces on this album represent a collection of treasures we’ve discovered from this century. One of these pieces, Annie Gosfield’s “The Blue Horse Walks on the Horizon” was written expressly for our quartet. The rest we unearthed as we sifted through the vibrant and varied landscape of music being created today. 

We sought to find a set of pieces that were both enchanting on their own and together represent a cohesive aesthetic. From the immense technical challenges of Judd Greenstein’s “Four on the Floor”, the meditative contemplation of David Lang’s “almost all the time”, to the raw emotion and vivid imagery of Missy Mazzoli’s “Death Valley Junction”, these pieces represent an incredible diversity of sound and style. Yet they all reside comfortably in this wonderful tradition of string quartets, of which we are lucky enough to be a part.”

Read more:  http://newamrecords.com/jasper-unbound

Unbound

Jasper String Quartet - Four on the Floor (composed by Judd Greenstein)

The first track from Brooklyn Youth Chorus' new album Black Mountain Songs, coming March 31, 2017 on New Amsterdam Records.

Composed by Bryce Dessner.

Pre-order via iTunes:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/black-mountain-songs/id1205587118
Pre-order via Bandcamp:  https://brooklynyouthchorus.bandcamp.com/album/black-mountain-songs

Read more:  http://newamrecords.com/byc-black-mountain-songs

Brooklyn Youth Chorus - Black Mountain Song (composed by Bryce Dessner)

From the new EP Without Chasms, released today exclusively through the New Amsterdam Records Bandcamp Subscription.  Subscribe and get the album here:  https://newamsterdamrecords.bandcamp.com/subscribe

The project features music by Brittelle and video/art by deep web artist S/CK F/SH that premiered at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in 2016 in a presentation by Infinite Palette, a curatorial collective dedicated to the development and presentation of composed electro-acoustic music formed by Brittelle and Wohl with Liquid Music curator-producer Kate Nordstrum. The Without Chasms EP was mixed, produced, and mastered by electronic musician and sound artist Michael Hammond of No Lands.

William Brittelle on Without Chasms:

“Without Chasms marks my first electronic release. The EP was inspired by the concept of ‘The Void,’ or nothingness. Specifically, the emotions and disorientation that arises from encountering ‘The Void,’ whether through meditation, "medication", or extreme emotional distress/elation. My own experiences approaching The Void have been marked by a somewhat disconcerting sense of interconnectedness, and inability to differentiate between things, and an overwhelming sense that reality is simply a casual network of abstract energy and emotion - hence the title, Without Chasms.”

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nolands.org

William Brittelle - Pixote Rambo / Legions Of Osiris

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