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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 15h

For Your GRAMMY® Consideration: Portland Percussion Group: Patterns and Form Contemporary Classical Composition: Alejandro Viñao: Patterns and Form Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Portland Percussion Group

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Coming out this Friday — Guy Barash, Cornelius Dufallo & Vezna Andrews: Minutes An album length composition composed of 40 minute long miniatures, each the product of a dynamic, multi-faceted interaction between the artists newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/minutes

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For Your GRAMMY® Consideration: Richard Carrick: l’Algérie Contemporary Classical Composition: Richard Carrick: l’Algérie Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Either/Or Ensemble Engineered Album, Classical: Joseph Branciforte, engineer

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For Your GRAMMY® Consideration: Adam Roberts & @conradtao.bsky.social : Book of Flowers Contemporary Classical Composition: Adam Roberts: Book of Flowers Best Solo Instrumental: Conrad Tao, piano

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For Your GRAMMY® Consideration: Movses Pogossian & The Armenian Music Project: Stanzas in August — Armenian Music, New and Rediscovered Classical Compendium

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For Your GRAMMY® Consideration: Ekmeles: Nonsongs Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance Contemporary Classical Composition: George Lewis' Lone Coast Engineered Album, Classical: Ryan Streber, engineer

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Coming out this Friday — Conor Nelson: The Last Possibilities of Light Flutist Conor Nelson performs five premieres written by his close composer colleagues, all responding to the theme of nostalgia in music that highlights his virtuosity and range newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-la...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Coming out this Friday — Pursue Peace: Contemporary Chamber Music by Canadian Jewish Composers Pursue Peace represents the first volume of a collection of music by Canadian Jewish composers under the Jewish Music at York umbrella newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/pursue...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Coming out this Friday — Sputter Box: Snapshots & Serenades Clarinet, voice, percussion trio Sputter Box releases their debut album featuring composers Martha Callison Horst, Allison McIntosh, Filippo Scaramucci, Daijana Wallace & Kakia Gkoudina, Bethany Younge, and Brendan Sweeney

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Coming out this Friday — James Díaz & John Popham: Espacio absoluto Espacio absoluto is a collection of nine works for solo cello that conjure sonic landscapes of dramatic timbral contrasts, hypnotic repetition, and multidimensional texture and feeling jamesdiaz.bandcamp.com/album/espaci...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Coming out this Friday — Tomás Gueglio: Ciclo Lamarque - Part 1: Songs & Madrigals Composer Tomás Gueglio releases a new portrait recording featuring ensemble works with voice, performed by Ensemble Dal Niente, Quince Ensemble and Ekmeles newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ciclo-...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Coming out this Friday — Richard Festinger: String Quartets 2, 4 & 5 San Francisco Bay Area composer Richard Festinger enters the string quartet genre’s 250-year conversation and comes away with something genuinely new newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/string...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Coming out this Friday on our ReEntrant label — Kyle Miller: Bed of Creeks and Coils Guitarists Kyle Miller and Daniel Conant lead this recording, Bed of Creeks and Coils, featuring twelve solo and chamber works by William Anderson, Benjamin A Boretz, and Miller himself

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Coming out this Friday — Susan Narucki & Kirsten Ashley Wiest: New Music for Two Voices Sopranos Susan Narucki and Kirsten Ashley Wiest team up for an illuminating collection of music for two voices by a range of composers newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/new-mu...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Coming out this Friday — Dan Barrett & Dominique Lemaître: La cétoine qui dort dans le cœur de la rose: Solo & Chamber Works for/with Cello Cellist Dan Barrett releases his second recording with New Focus celebrating the lush and lyrical chamber music of French composer Dominique Lemaître

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Coming out this Friday — Beltline Bones: Technological Eclipse A "new music ensemble disguised as a trombone quartet," Beltline Bones presents programs that experiment with genre mixture and notational experimentation beltlinebones.bandcamp.com/album/techno...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Coming out this Friday — Daniel Schreiner: Unmoored Daniel Schreiner releases his debut album project featuring fresh new perspectives on solo piano music by Luciano Leite Barbosa, Brittany J. Green, Sato Matsui, Ramin Roshandel, and Nina Shekhar danielschreiner.bandcamp.com/album/unmoored

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Coming out this Friday — Hypercube: Trace The mixed quartet Hypercube releases their newest recording, Trace, which highlights the ensemble's dynamic approach to hybrid timbres and vanguard expression newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/trace

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Coming out this Friday — Ramin Heydarbeygi: Echoes of Gusan Ramin Heydarbeygi’s music is strongly influenced by Iranian aesthetics, especially the concise, intricate, interwoven artistry found in Persian poetry and miniature paintings newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/echoes...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Coming out this Friday — Marc Mellits: Warp & Weft Bass clarinetist Jeff Anderle has assembled two chamber ensembles to record music by iconic minimalist composer Marc Mellits newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/marc-m...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Coming out this Friday — Robert Honstein: Horizon Line Composer Robert Honstein's three works for string quartet on Horizon Line explore how pastoral expressions open up spaces in our psychology, an oasis from an overcrowded mental environment roberthonstein.bandcamp.com/album/horizo...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Coming out this Friday — Joseph Franklin: The Horror of the Avant-Garde(s) Australian composer Joseph Franklin's album features a concerto for piano (Marc Hannaford) and percussion (Satoshi Takeishi) that far exceeds the expectations of the genre newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-ho...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Coming out this Friday — Diego Tedesco: Varietas Argentinean composer Diego Tedesco's debut portrait album Varietas highlights his charged, gestural style in works for chamber ensemble, instrument plus electronics, and orchestra newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/varietas

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Coming out this Friday — Nirmali Fenn: When Apathy is Betrayal An album length work for two sopranos & ensemble that interrogates the absence of empathy that allows us to disconnect from the profound suffering of displaced peoples in the modern world newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/when-a...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Coming out this Friday — Ekmeles: Nonsongs The intrepid contemporary vocal ensemble Ekmeles, directed by Jeffrey Gavett, releases their third recording featuring works written for the ensemble by George Lewis, Wolfgang von Schweinitz & Katherine Balch newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/nonsongs

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Coming out this Friday — David Bird: Hinterlands David Bird's compositions explore the impact of technology on our world, both musical and beyond, both from the past and into the future newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hinter...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Coming out this Friday — A Forest Unfolding: A Collaborative Cantata Inspired by Trees A Forest Unfolding is a collaborative work inspired by recent scientific research into the rich communication and subterranean connectivity between trees newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/a-fore...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Coming out this Friday — Noah Meites: Counting Los Angeles based composer Noah Meites releases a collection of his chamber music that chronicles his vibrant artistic voice and his role as an active member of that city's fertile music community newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/counting

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Coming out this Friday — a·pe·ri·od·ic: aus der nacht a·pe·ri·od·ic is a Chicago-based experimental music ensemble featuring post-Cagean music. Their third release on New Focus features an album length work by Magnus Granberg written for them newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/aus-de...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Coming out this Friday — Stanzas in August: Armenian Music, New and Rediscovered Movses Pogossian and his colleagues in the Armenian Music Project continue their tireless advocacy for the music of Armenia with this ambitious 4 CD collection newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/stanza...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Coming out this Friday — Ann DuHamel: Prayers for a Feverish Planet: New Music about Climate Change, Vol. 1 Pianist Ann DuHamel releases the first volume of her commissioning project of solo works that are inspired by and draw attention to the climate change crisis

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Coming out this Friday — SydeBoob Duo: Au Naturel SydeBoob Duo is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of performance in repertoire for soprano & flute, bringing their virtuosity to ambitious works that highlight their commitment to broad representation and the highest aesthetic standards

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Coming out this Friday — Michael Jones: The Promise of Escape Percussionist Michael Jones releases an album featuring three works that resulted from close collaborations he has had with composers Pluto Bell, Nicholas Deyoe, and Scott Wollschleger newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-pr...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Coming out this Friday — Eric Chasalow: ...arching, reaching, breathless Composer Eric Chasalow releases ...arching, reaching, breathless featuring several pieces for strings in chamber and electroacoustic settings newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/archin...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Coming out this Friday — Lei Liang: Six Seasons: Instrumentation Lab Lei Liang crafts multi-disciplinary works that bridge scientific research, electroacoustic composition & contemporary improvisation to create a cohesive message of holistic symbiosis newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/six-se...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Coming out this Friday — Matthew Shlomowitz: Explorations in Polytonality and other Musical Wonders, Volume 5 Composer Matthew Shlomowitz embraces short form pieces, each of which engage with a historical trope from the compositional toolbox newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/matthe...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Coming out this Friday — José Martínez: Short Stories Composer José Martínez releases Short Stories, a collection of his compositions that integrate tradition, technology, and text to tell stories, both direct and surreal newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/short-...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Coming out this Friday — Peter Kramer: To a Green Thought in a Green Shade Peter Kramer cultivates a compositional library of ideas from which he draws on and fashions lyrical, thoughtful music newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/to-a-g...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Coming out this Friday — Wilfrido Terrazas: Trilogía del Dolor Flutist & composer Wilfrido Terrazas presents Trilogía del Dolor (Trilogy of Pain), a collection of works blending music & poetry to explore the complexities of the human experience of pain wilfridoterrazas.bandcamp.com/album/trilog...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Coming out tomorrow — Karol Rathaus: Piano Sonata No. IV, Op. 58 Pianist Donald Pirone releases Karol Rathaus' expansive Piano Sonata No. IV, a culminating work of a composer/pianist who had fled the political instability in Europe in the 1930s newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/karol-...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Coming out this Friday — Portland Percussion Group: Patterns & Form Portland Percussion Group’s newest release features three works commissioned by the ensemble by Alejandro Viñao, Mendel Lee, and Daniel Webbon Bandcamp: newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/patter...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Coming out this Friday — Mariel Roberts Musa: Sunder Listening is central to composer Mariel Roberts Musa’s music, which engages landscapes shaped by physical presence, human meaning, and the subtle intersections of sound and politics marielroberts.bandcamp.com/album/sunder

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Coming out this Friday — Richard Carrick: l’Algérie Composer & pianist Richard Carrick's recent work fuses his penchant for long form composition, fluency in extended techniques, versatile performance practice and interest in structured improvisation newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/richar...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Coming out this Friday — Jonathan Bagg: Viola Revival Violist Jonathan Bagg, with pianists Emely Phelps and Mimi Solomon, unearth three overlooked gems of the mid-20th century chamber repertoire by Marion Bauer, Ulysses Kay, and Margaret Bonds newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/viola-...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Coming out this Friday — Eric Moe: WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS Composer & pianist Eric Moe's newest release is a collection of five works for solo keyboard and one quintet that centers the instrument in his compositional output newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/where-...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Coming out this Friday — @djmoderne.bsky.social: Wavelengths Ken Ueno's creative approach to composition shares an affinity with the percussion world; there is an underlying spirit of experimentation, problem solving, and deconstruction newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/wavele...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Coming out this Friday — Ensemble Dal Niente: portrait RE / Flux / Pacific Time Ensemble Dal Niente's newest release chronicles their immersive collaborations with composers George Lewis, @carola-bauckholt.bsky.social, and Igor Santos dalniente.bandcamp.com/album/portra...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Coming out this Friday — Michael Hersch: Medea Michael Hersch adapts the tragedy of Medea from Ovid's Metamorphoses in a new opera for soprano Sarah Maria Sun, Schola Heidelberg and @musikfabrik.bsky.social with librettist Stephanie Fleischmann newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/medea

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Coming out this Friday — The 21st-Century Orchestra: Music from Brown University Five new orchestral works by faculty composers from Brown University, Wang Lu, Anthony Cheung, Joseph Butch Rovan, and Eric Nathan newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-21...

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Coming out this Friday — Adam Roberts: Book of Flowers Composer Adam Roberts' Book of Flowers is a celebration of the large scale collection of character pieces, participating in a tradition that traces from Schumann to Chopin to Debussy to Crumb newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/adam-r...

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