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  • Friday, January 26, 2024

    Grammy and Academy Award winner Gustavo Santaolalla releases his acclaimed 1998 album Ronroco on vinyl for the first time in a newly remastered edition from Nonesuch, out now. The singer, composer, and producer’s classic album—which takes its name from a South American stringed instrument—comprises twelve original tunes inspired by traditional Argentinean music and influenced by music of Japan, Africa, and Eastern Europe. “Ronroco conjures bucolic images and feelings for me,” filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu writes in the new liner note. “There’s always a note that surprises, breaks the pattern of the rainstorm, turning into silence, a gentle drizzle, or escalating into a tempest.”

  • Friday, January 26, 2024

    The Yussef Dayes Experience: Live From Malibu, featuring music from Dayes' critically acclaimed debut solo album, Black Classical Music, and more, is now available on vinyl and digitally. Dayes—who has just been nominated for BRIT Awards for Best New Artist and Best Alternative/Rock Act—is joined by his longtime collaborators Rocco Palladino, Venna, Elijah Fox, and Alexander Bourt on Live From Malibu, which was originally released as a live-performance video filmed in the Malibu mountains last year; you can watch that here.

  • Friday, January 26, 2024

    Classical singer Julia Bullock was on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour ahead of her UK performances with the Philharmonia Orchestra—with whom she performs on her album Walking in the Dark—next week, culminating with the mixed-media project History’s Persistent Voice, which shines a light on the words, work, and experiences of Black artists, at Queen Elizabeth Hall. You can hear her conversation with Woman's Hour presenter Anita Rani here.

Artist Spotlight

  • On Ki moun ou ye, Haitian-American singer and composer Nathalie Joachim takes listeners through an intimate collection of music that ponders its title’s question: “Who are you?” Inspired by the remote Caribbean farmland that her family continues to call home after seven generations and performed in both English and Haitian Creole, the work examines the richness of one’s voice—an instrument that brings with it DNA, ancestry, and identity—in a vibrant tapestry of Joachim’s voice, and…

  • "This is my reaction to being assaulted by information," composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire says of his Nonesuch debut album, Owl Song, featuring a trio with two musicians he has long admired, guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Herlin Riley. "This record is me wanting to create a safe space. Part of the challenge was: Can I create something that's oriented around open space, the way some of the records I love the most do?" The New York Times says: "Akinmusire has…

  • Cloudward features eight new compositions by guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson she performs with her sextet Amaryllis—the improvisatory band that performed on her acclaimed 2022 albums Amaryllis and Belladonna: Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). Laurie Anderson is featured on the track "Incarnadine." The Guardian says: "Halvorson's fusions of written and…

  • Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) created The Past Is Still Alive during a period of personal grief, when they found inspiration in radical poetry, railroad culture, outsider art, the work of writer Eileen Myles, and activist groups like ACT UP and Gran Fury. Segarra uses their lyrics as a way to immortalize and say goodbye to those they have loved and lost, and to honor both the heartbroken and the hopeful parts of themselves. Though made in North Carolina by the Bronx-…

  • The Black Keys' twelfth studio album, Ohio Players—a title inspired by the legendary Dayton, Ohio, funk band of the same name—features several collaborations between band mates Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney with various friends and colleagues, like Dan “The Automator” Nakamura, Beck, Noel Gallagher, Greg Kurstin, and others. “We had this epiphany: ‘We can call our friends to help us make music,’" Carney says. Auerbach adds, “No matter who we work with, it never feels like we're…

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898971
Fri, Jan 26
7:00 PM
Eiffel Arts Studio
BudapestHungary
Owl Song w/Gregory Hutchinson
Fri, Jan 26
Eiffel Arts Studio
BudapestHungary
900141
Fri, Jan 26
7:30 PM
Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall, Utah State University
Logan, UTUnited States
Fri, Jan 26
Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall, Utah State University
Logan, UTUnited States
892201
Fri, Jan 26
7:30 PM
Herbst Theatre
San Francisco, CAUnited States
PIVOT Festival w/Roomful of Teeth
Fri, Jan 26
Herbst Theatre
San Francisco, CAUnited States
898871
Fri, Jan 26
7:30 PM
Logan Center Performance Hall
Chicago, ILUnited States
Jeff Parker and The New Breed
Fri, Jan 26
Logan Center Performance Hall
Chicago, ILUnited States