Modern Composition

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  Terence Blanchard

  BlacKkKlansman

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2019

  With BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee effectively crafted himself a cultural moment, as the film not only nabbed some serious critical praise but...

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  Flying Hórses

  Reverie

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2019

  Composer Jade Bergeron is on record as saying Reverie, her sophomore album under the Flying Hórses banner, is a "heartbreak record." Yet it...

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  Kilchhofer Anklin

  Moto Perpetuo

  PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2019

  There is a common thread that runs through much of the music released on Marionette. Precise, minimalistic percussive blips and general ele...

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  Tredici Bacci

  La Fine Del Futuro

  PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2019

  Guerilla Toss bassist Simon Hanes has been spreading his wings as composer, arranger and band leader with Tredici Bacci since 2014, when th...

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  Jeremy Dutcher

  Baumann Centre, Victoria BC, March 8

  PUBLISHED Mar 9, 2019

  As the world knows, Jeremy Dutcher took home the Polaris Music Prize in 2018 for Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, an album created after the Tob...

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  Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words

  By Ennio Morricone and Alessandro De Rosa

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2019

  The oscillating trill and dampered wahs of Ennio Morricone's iconic theme to Sergio Leone's genre-defining spaghetti western The Good, The...

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  Hauschka

  A Different Forest

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2019

  Institutional respectability appears to have found, captured and enshrined Volker Bertelmann, aka Hauschka. Well into the second decade of...

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  Yann Tiersen

  All

  PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2019

  There was something insular about Yann Tiersen's ninth album, 2016's EUSA. Sharing its name with the Breton word for Ushant, the French isl...