CLASSICAL/ JAZZ/ BLUES

Hanan Townshend’s “What We Lost II” encounters something you cannot quite name. Townshend, known for shaping music around other people’s stories in film, turns inward here. This piece comes from a larger body of work wrestling with grief as a foggy, shifting state that arrives before language does. That uncertainty…

Richard Green’s “Midnight” is a piece that lives up to its name in more ways than one. Though originally released in January 2022, the single now returns with fresh context as part of a completed trilogy of EPs, beginning with A Journey. That framing gives the composition extra weight, because…

Gavriel Micah’s “Ma Yofus” feels modest on paper but quietly leaves a deep impression once it starts moving. Based in Denver and working from his home studio, Micah takes a traditional Yiddish melody that has lived for generations in prayer and communal memory and places it inside a compact hard-bop…

Los Angeles-based composer Freedom Anon is preparing to introduce his debut single “Mercurial,” arriving March 13 as the lead release from his upcoming project Mercurial – The EP. With a background in classical training and early studies in music production at NYU, the artist’s first official release appears poised to…

Phoenix-based composer and painter Allan Jamisen continues to blur the lines between jazz lounge, cinematic electronica, and spoken-word poetry with his hypnotic new single “This Is Not An Act.” Known for crafting immersive soundscapes that feel more like late-night monologues than traditional songs, Jamisen digs deep into themes of authenticity,…

Released on February 13, 2026, Temperament arrives as the debut full-length from UK electronic producer Chris Ami, and it is one heck of an entrance. Spanning nine tracks, the album moves through a series of emotional and psychological states, using single-word titles to sketch a loose but purposeful inner journey.…

Following the shadowy pull of Beat The Drum’s earlier release “Black Sunset,” “Into Your Heart” feels like a companion piece that turns inward and upward at the same time. Built from neo-Sufi ambience, space music drift, and stripped-back touches of voice, piano, and violin, the track reaches for something more…

Bassist-composer Daren Burns has always been a musical shapeshifter, but on Fragmentation, he seems to gather all his histories, straight-ahead jazz, rock, avant-garde, and electric edges, into one wild, double-quartet fever dream. With fretless bass at the core and an eight-piece band of Southern California improvisers orbiting around him, this…

Vladyslav Ustiuhov’s debut recording of Beethoven’s “Waldstein” (Op. 53), “Appassionata” (Op. 57), and Op. 111 is like a line in the sand. Shaped by Ukrainian and Russian musical roots, then sharpened through intense training at the Boston Conservatory and the Frost School of Music, Ustiuhov plays these sonatas like they’re…

Montreal-based pianist/composer Pat Piperni is sitting you down in a quiet room, turning the lights low, and letting a single piano tell the truth on “Quiet Storm” (released December 23, 2025). Recorded and mastered solo in his home studio, with digital piano (Ivory 3) through Cubase, the track wears its…