STRANGE WINTER WAVES!
Preorder your copy of Musicworks 153 (magazine + CD) today to receive your copy hot off the presses, with discounted cover price and shipping rate. Bonus! Order before January 31, 2026, and receive one month free reading of the digital edition (Exact Editions platform).*
Here are some of the creative musicians featured in the Winter 2025/2026 issue.
Quinton Barnes works with avant-hip-hop, industrial R&B, experimental electronics and, most recently, ensembles of instruments in songs that explore personal truths and political realities.
Working from an Afrodiasporic perspective, Corie Rose Soumah uses multiple aesthetic approaches and sonic elements in hyper-sonic collages built to elicit visceral responses.
Joshua Frank is a documentary filmmaker and bassist in the experimental rock duo Gong Gong Gong. His solo work is a “lab” for experimentation outside familiar bass grooves.
DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a rhythmanalyst, author (Assembling a Black Counter Culture, 2020) and curator. He releases music under his name and the moniker Speaker Music.
Tempête Solaire creates saturated instrumental music with drums, eight-string bass, and saxophone.
Michael Scott Dawson is a Canadian sound artist, multi-instrumentalist and community builder.
Tara Kannangara is a trumpeter, band leader, and composer of genre-bending music.
PLUS reviews of the Music Gallery’s X Avant Festival (Toronto), and the send + receive festival (Winnipeg), the documentary I Am the Art: Nobuo Kubota, new recordings from Anna Pidgorna, Cris Derksen, Praed Orchestra!, Aretha Tillotson, Don Scott & Jean Martin and many more!
The Musicworks 153 CD features new and previously unreleased music from artists in the issue.
Don’t miss out! Pre-order your single copy OR subscribe / renew and receive a year’s worth of page-turning analog reading about adventurous music.
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