Modern Composition

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  Jean-Michel Blais Crafts Lush, Life-Affirming Compositions on 'aubades'

  PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2022

  For Jean-Michel Blais, aubades is a rebirth. From its opening notes, its whisks listeners away. On the new album from the esteemed post-cla...

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  Ryuichi Sakamoto Is Selling Sheet Music to Fight a "Flood of Independent Transcriptions or Arranged Versions"

  PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2022

  Even the most ardent listeners of Ryuichi Sakamoto make mistakes when it comes to transcribing music from his past performances — an issue...

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  Jean-Michel Blais Shares "mumures" Ahead of New Album

  PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2021

  Jean-Michel Blais has announced a new album with the arrival of single "murmures." The Montreal-based musician's latest, which he calls a t...

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  Robin Hatch's New Album 'T.O.N.T.O.' Features the Legendary Synth

  PUBLISHED Sep 2, 2021

  Robin Hatch is the latest in a line of artists who have recorded on the famed TONTO synthesizer. The Toronto-based composer and multi-instr...

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  Anna Meredith to Play Canada on North American Tour

  PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2021

  Fresh off releasing surprise album Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems last week, Anna Meredith has announced plans to tour North Amer...

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  Deliluh Chronicle Their Departure from Canada with Two Versions of "Amulet"

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2021

  Post-punks Deliluh left Toronto in 2019 as a four-piece and have now resurfaced somewhere unspecified in Europe as a duo. They've chronicle...

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  Fucked Up's Narrative Ambitions Are Finally Fully Realized on 'Year of the Horse'

  PUBLISHED May 10, 2021

  During their 20-plus years as a band, Fucked Up have never shied away from taking chances and stepping outside of whatever box critics and...

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  Nils Frahm Shares Surprise Album 'Graz' for Piano Day

  PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2021

  Continuing his annual celebration of Piano Day (the 88th day of the year), Nils Frahm has shared a previously unreleased effort titled Graz...