On the Cover: “Alanna Stuart Embraces the Dancehall Bombast” by Gloria Blizzard.
Features: “New Age Doom Steps Forward” by Jesse Locke.
“Roxanne Nesbitt’s Sonic Investigations” by Sara Constant.
“Yves Charuest: Improvisation as an Existential Act” by Stuart Broomer.
Sound Bites: "Beny Esguerra Unifies the Equation" by Mary Dickie.
“Jessica McMann Brings the Music Home” by Elizabeth Chorney-Booth.
“The Spatial Sonic Designs of Juro Kim Feliz” by Rachel Evangeline Chiong.
“Resonant Frequencies” by editor Jennie Punter.
Reviews of music from: Absolutely Free; Jessica Ackerley and Daniel Carter; Gordon Grdina and Jim Black; Robin Hatch; Aiyun Huang; Annea Lockwood; René Lussier, Érick d’Orion, Robbie Kuster, and Martin Tétreault; Maneri / Kalmanovitch / Jacobson / Osgood; Mas Aya; Jessica Moss; Christopher Otto; Jessica Pavone; Allen Ravenstine; Silla and Rise; Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Kaiser, and Alex Varty.
Label profile: “Backward Music Moves Forward in Experimental Directions” by Brennan McCracken.
Musicworks 141 CD
1 Dejaron Huellas (2021) 4:07 Composed by Beny Esguerra. Performed by Beny Esguerra and New Tradition Music. From Northside KUISi, A New Tradition Vol 3, Lulaworld Records, LWR016S2.
2 Inni (2019) 7:11 Composed by Jessica McMann. Performed by Jessica McMann (flute, alto flute), Karen Donaldson Shepherd (viola), and Beverley McKiver (piano). Produced and recorded at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada, in October 2019, by Laura Vinson.
3Ni ici, ni là-bas (2017) 12:12 Composed by Juro Kim Feliz. Performed by Marilène Provencher-Leduc (alto flute). Recorded at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada in August 2017 by Takuto Fukuda.
4 Life Is An Experiment (2021) 4:56 Composed by Ryan Dahle, Tim Lefebvre, Donny McCaslin, Daniel Aaron Rosenboom, Gregory MacDonald, Dominic Cipolla, Lady Nigel Butterfly, Jesse Creed, Greg Valou, Eric J. Breitenbach, and Rainford Hugh Perry. From New Age Doom's Lee “Scratch” Perry's Guide to the Universe, We Are Busy Bodies, WABB-099.
5 Death and the Rest (2021) 9:44 Composed by Roxanne Nesbitt. Performed by Ensemble Modelo 62. Recorded by Joel Thurman, in concert at Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2021 as part of the Stubborn Resurgences program at Tivoli Vredenburg’s Pandora hall, Utrecht, Netherlands on September 12, 2021.
6 To Silver (Kiki Riddim) (2020) 2:39 Composed, performed, and mixed by Alanna Stuart. Mastered by Jeremy Greenspan at Barton Building Studio, Hamilton, Canada.
7 Vitrola, excerpt (2019) 15:32 Improvised by Yves Charuest (alto saxophone). Recorded live at La Vitrola, Montreal, Canada in November 2019 by Mathieu Bélanger.
Musicworks 141 CD released December 2021
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