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Tracks of the Week 04.11.23

Tracks of the Week
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,...

Tracks of the Week 19.08.23

Tracks of the Week
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...