Tag: Concepción Huerta

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For the follow-up to her Grammy-nominated debut album Fanm d'Ayiti, a celebration of the unheralded female singers of Haiti which was recited and performed in collaboration with Spektral Quartet, the Haitian American vocalist and flautist Nathalie Joachim sought to fete those ties that bind, from romantic trysts and familial bonds to the semantic shifts and twisted etymologies of Haitian...

Four years in the making, for her first full-length on New Amsterdam Records the composer and vocalist Mingjia Chen presents a collection of through-composed songs which still carry the discursiveness and formal spontaneity of recitative or more melismatic arioso, as half-scrawled thoughts and ribbons of reflections stack together in a manner at once reminiscent of the opera or Broadway,...

In the fall of 2015 the drummer and composer Mike Reed read a harrowing story in The New York Times about 'The Lonely Death of George Bell', a 72-year-old New Yorker who passed away sequestered inside of his Jackson Heights apartment, his body 'crumpled up on the mottled carpet' after going undiscovered for almost one week. A hoarder, when...