Matt Sargent Highland, New York
Matt Sargent is a composer-performer whose music has been described by critics as “bringing a sharpened sense of the transcendental into the 21st century” (Sequenza21). It’s “a powerfully organic experience” (Sequenza21) that is “so simple, so natural, and yet sets up a complex set of interactions” (SoundExpanse) as it “uses bare resources to establish a bounded and essential space” (The Wire). ... more
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I'm always quite interested in new (or in this case pretty old) instruments and what possibilities that offers to the composer and the listener. I dig the sound of the viola da gamba and the intelligent compositions here. Though this record is full of emotions and moods, it's hard to tell how I feel while listening. Kind of engrossed I guess.
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Take a deep breath and switch to somewhere else. Beautifully recorded.
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Just Constellations
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Brilliant! Voices like clear bells. Music to still a mind.
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Silhouettes
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A stirring set of chamber music from this composer from Berlin, which seem to capture hope & sadness at once.
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Argentine composer and guitarist Francisco del Pino achieves a stunning art-song hybrid on the first album to be released under his own name.
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Light of Shore
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The debut album from Irish composer Anselm McDonnell examines faith, folklore, and environment through contemporary music.
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