Composed for soloist Ittai Shapira, the concerto reflects on the devastation of New Orleans and the musical communities of the Delta, five years later.

Music by Theodore Wiprud. Premiered October 20, 2011 with the Knoxville Symphony, Lucas Richman conducting. Recorded January 5, 2012 by Ittai Shapira and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson conducting.

Violin Concerto (Katrina), I. Les Bons Temps

Violin Concerto (Katrina), II. Acadiana

Violin Concerto (Katrina), III. I'll Fly Away

Saâda Bonaire - More Women

Ripped from the depths of creativity, wrestled from the arms of artistic passion and torn from the womb of narcissism, we bring you two tracks from Polysonic Joy's new album, "Broke Up For Stupid Reasons", releasing April Fool's Day. 

Grow

02 Green Galaxy, Black Cocaine

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Ess P Alter

Vicki Reals MPC VS Kit Clayton

we all have this beast inside of us/trained or confined:/let it run /jump/blur/until every spike of fur spits water/until its teeth are bared with glee and hunt and it spins into the silence of your work and you are able to dedicate ten years to some small, strange pursuit.
you must learn to ride, to work with foreign species, to insert your will into every fork and plate and pan you cook with until the food is an extension of the hands that prepared it and the brain that dreamed it.
you must learn to score thick paper and fold it into designs.
you must learn to squeeze lemons into smiling forces that sputter up.
that’s the important thing, that’s how this piece was written, that’s how your beast/trained or confined/can run


cover art by gabriela reyes mediavilla

a bunch of different kinds of water

As the doctor held the fragile, bloody bundle, the family shared smiles round the hospital bed. The doctor, puzzled by the solitude this little thing possessed, inspected it closer, then whispered something in the ear of the proud man standing by. The man, ever so gently, took the swaddled thing from the doctor, and, just to be sure himself, took another peek under the white blanket, barely able to contain himself. "It's... It's a band!" 