Liz Cooper - Hot Sass - VINYL LP

Dorothy Hindman's musical journey took a circuitous route. From studying rock and electronic music to finding a home writing music for ensembles, Hindman built her unique musical language from seemingly disparate parts. Her music often finds itself in between aesthetics, borrowing from both punk/grunge music and a kind of angular pattern-based music. Blow by Blow showcases new works for winds and percussion by one of today's most energetic composers. A double-album, one-two punch traversing three decades of musical territory, it pulses and soars, hammers and roars - popping and crackling with harnessed energy. Insistent rhythms whip riffs into intricate, towering formations in Mechanisms for flute ensemble, Cascade for saxophone ensemble, and Fission for concert band. Shimmering colors waft equally through the wind-up clockwork of Hindman's Drift (for sax quartet) and Multiverses (for percussion quartet), and the nebulous soundscapes and solos of Trembling for flute, Soliloquy for Clarinet, Beyond the Cloud of Unknowing for marimba, and Untitled I. An air of bouncy humor suffuses the short, sweet Big Fun for baritone saxophone, CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE for reed quintet, and Lost in Translation for soprano saxophone, while Stuart Gerber's breathtaking, thundering Tapping the Furnace for vocalizing percussionist leaves behind a deafening wake. In over 75 works fusing a punk/grunge background with classical refinement, Dorothy Hindman has pushed the boundaries of the technically possible with unique, visceral elegance. At Birmingham-Southern College, Hindman's music theory courses paired college students with underprivileged 5th graders to write, compose, and perform original youth operas. Hindman's Justly Tuned concert series under the auspices of the Foundation for Emerging Technologies and the Arts (FETA), presents new music that engages with social and political issue

Liz Lawrence - Vespers. The brand-new album from Liz Lawrence and her second with Chrysalis Records.Vespers is an album about tragedy. It is the record of a life and death, an act of devotion and reflection. Liz Lawrence wrote these songs in the ashes of disaster. InchIt is dedicated to my beautiful sister Jessie and her too-short life.InchInchI wanted someone to be able to say to a friend who is grieving that they should listen to Vespers. I want people to come to this record. I want people to use this record. I want it to have purpose, to give comfort and catharsis Inch Liz says. Vespers is unvarnished, spare and elegiac, a testament of life and death. InchThe album is very specifically about my sister and my family's situation, but equally, that is universalInch.In wrapping up the harsh demands of life in the plain warmth of love, it is a romantic and frank finale 'Thank God For You', which offers some of the comfort and catharsis that she hopes Vespers will offer to others too.Liz Lawrence is a British artist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. Her work has earned praise across radio and press and continues to mark her out as one of the UK's most quietly compelling indie storytellers.Vespers is the fifth album by Liz Lawrence, following Peanuts, The Avalanche, Pity Party and Bedroom Hero.

Limited splatter colored vinyl LP pressing.