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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 18h

Stanzas in August is a 4 CD set and the continuation of an ambitious and laudable project spearheaded by Movses Pogossian to document the richness and history of modern Armenian concert music, a lineage is framed by some of the most consequential events of the 20th century

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Stanzas in August: Armenian Music, New and Rediscovered, by Movses Pogossian & Armenian Music Project

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 18h

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

Ekmeles has cultivated an unparalleled reputation for tackling the most challenging vocal scores, navigating microtonality, complex rhythmic textures, and experimental structures with virtuosity and expression Nonsongs features new works by George Lewis, Wolfgang von Schweinitz & Katherine Balch

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Nonsongs, by Ekmeles

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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 · 02/10/2026

The commissioning guidelines allowed freedom for each composer to approach nostalgia on their own terms, resulting in works that alternatively engaged older repertoire, the phenomenon of memory itself, literary references, and personal reflections

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The Last Possibilities of Light, Conor Nelson - Qobuz

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Out now — Conor Nelson: The Last Possibilities of Light Five new works written for flutist Conor Nelson around the theme of nostalgia by composers Marilyn Shrude, Laura Schwendinger, Donald Crockett, Mikel Kuehn and Mengmeng Wang, alongside pianist Christopher Taylor and oboist Lindsay Flowers

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The Last Possibilities of Light, by Conor Nelson

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From flutist Conor Nelson's new album The Last Possibilities of Light coming out tomorrow, here's composer Mikel Kuehn's A Tour of the Canon performed with oboist Lindsay Flowers and pianist Christopher Taylor newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-la...

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Mikel Kuehn: A Tour of the Canon

Mikel Kuehn: A Tour of the Canon Conor Nelson, flute; Lindsay Flowers, oboe; Christopher Taylor, piano From FCR493 Conor Nelson: The Last Possibilities of Light Coming out October 2nd, links to pre-o

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

Works for flute and piano by Marilyn Shrude, Laura Schwendinger, and Donald Crockett alongside a trio by Mikel Kuehn and an electroacoustic work by Mengmeng Wang all engage with memory in different ways, through formal elements, reference to canonic repertoire, and reference to personal recollection

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The Last Possibilities of Light, Conor Nelson - Qobuz

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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 · 25/09/2026

The recording features works integrating Jewish texts and historical context. The compositions, curation, and committed performances all point to a shared conviction about music’s unique capacity to engage with larger issues on an intellectual and emotional level

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Pursue Peace: Contemporary Chamber Music by Canadian Jewish Composers, Noam Lemish - Qobuz

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Out now — Pursue Peace: Contemporary Chamber Music by Canadian Jewish Composers The first volume of music by Canadian Jewish composers under the Jewish Music at York umbrella, curated by composer Noam Lemish and including works by James Rolfe, Sid Robinovitch, and Lemish himself

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Pursue Peace: Contemporary Chamber Music by Canadian Jewish Composers, by Noam Lemish, Sid Robinovitch & James Rolfe

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

Curated by composer Noam Lemish and including works by James Rolfe, Sid Robinovitch, and Lemish himself, the works rotate around themes of conflict, resolution, and peace, engaging with Jewish texts and presenting a diverse range of musical aesthetics www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/...

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Pursue Peace: Contemporary Chamber Music by Canadian Jewish Composers, Noam Lemish - Qobuz

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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 · 18/09/2026

Sputter Box delivers committed, powerful performances of this repertoire as it covers a wide and ambitious range of dramatic territory. The trio presents these premieres with well thought out and refined interpretations, as if they were already part of the seasoned repertoire

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Snapshots & Serenades

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Out now — Sputter Box: Snapshots & Serenades The debut album by clarinet, voice & percussion trio Sputter Box, featuring works written for them by Martha Callison Horst, Allison McIntosh, Filippo Scaramucci, Daijana Wallace & Kakia Gkoudina, Bethany Younge, and Brendan Sweeney

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Snapshots & Serenades, by Sputter Box

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

As the first full-length album entirely composed of works for this unique instrumentation, this album showcases their mission to build and expand the repertoire for the trio with tracks ranging from contemporary art songs to absurdist music theater newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/snapsh...

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Snapshots & Serenades, by Sputter Box

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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 · 11/09/2026

Colombian composer James Díaz creates immersive works characterized by shifting textures, vibrant sonic masses, and gradual fluctuations of energy. In his orchestral, chamber, and electroacoustic music, Díaz constructs sonic worlds that feel unrestrained by time and space

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James Díaz: Espacio absoluto, John Popham - Qobuz

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Out now — James Díaz & John Popham: Espacio absoluto Nine works for solo cello by composer James Díaz, performed by longtime collaborator cellist John Popham jamesdiaz.bandcamp.com/album/espaci...

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Espacio absoluto, by James Díaz & John Popham

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

The album draws inspiration from the concept of absolute space, an infinite, unchanging space that exists independently of its internal inhabitants. In these nine works, Díaz uses the cello as a source of both rich melodic material and kaleidoscopic textures that give form to these vivid spaces

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James Díaz: Espacio absoluto, John Popham - Qobuz

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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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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 04/09/2026

For Bandcamp Friday, a few new composition purchases. First, my dear friend Tomas Gueglio has a new album of vocal works with Ensemble Dal Niente, Quince Ensemble, and Ekmeles vocal ensemble @newfocuslabel.bsky.social newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ciclo-...

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Ciclo Lamarque - Part 1: Songs & Madrigals, by Tomás Gueglio

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The central source of inspiration for the album is a 1940’s Argentine melodrama, and with it Gueglio is able to navigate us into an expressive time machine, using a faded era as a wormhole through which he can freely explore the depths of emotion from a deliberative, but not detached, distance

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Ciclo Lamarque, Pt. 1: Songs & Madrigals, Quince Ensemble - Qobuz

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Out now — Tomás Gueglio: Ciclo Lamarque - Part 1: Songs & Madrigals Chamber works featuring the voice by composer Tomás Gueglio, featuring Ensemble Dal Niente, Quince Ensemble, and Ekmeles vocal ensemble newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ciclo-...

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Ciclo Lamarque - Part 1: Songs & Madrigals, by Tomás Gueglio

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

From composer Tomás Gueglio's new album Ciclo Lamarque coming out tomorrow, here's a chamber work performed by Ensemble Dal Niente featuring vocalist Amanda DeBoer Bartlett newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ciclo-...

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Tomás Gueglio: Triste y madrigal: I

Tomás Gueglio: Triste y madrigal: I Ensemble Dal Niente, Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, soprano, Emma Hospelhorn, flute, Matthew Oliphant, french horn, Ben Melsky, harp, Jesse Langen, electric guitar, Theo R

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

Gueglio, a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, focuses on poignant, evocative textures, putting various compositional instruments such as counterpoint, polyrhythm, microtonality, and extended technique at the service of his immersive textures

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Tomás Gueglio: Ciclo Lamarque - Part 1: Songs & Madrigals, Quince Ensemble - Qobuz

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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 · 28/08/2026

Taking advantage of the string quartet's blend of homogeneous sonority, coloristic range, contrapuntal richness and potential for virtuosity, these works are at once fresh and decidedly of their own time

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Richard Festinger: String Quartets 2, 4 & 5, The Verona Quartet - Qobuz

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Out now — Richard Festinger: String Quartets 2, 4 & 5 Three pathbreaking string quartets by composer Richard Festinger, performed by the Verona Quartet, Telegraph Quartet, and Jasper String Quartet

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String Quartets 2, 4 & 5, by Richard Festinger

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

Performed by the Verona Quartet, Telegraph Quartet, and Jasper String Quartet, these remarkable compositions engage deeply with the classical music tradition while pursuing distinctly contemporary formal and expressive concerns

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Richard Festinger: String Quartets 2, 4 & 5, The Verona Quartet - Qobuz

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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 · 21/08/2026

Bed of Creeks and Coils is a project led by guitarist and composer Kyle Miller with his colleague Daniel Conant. The recording presents a broad vision of contemporary repertoire on the instrument, spanning works for classical, electric, and steel string acoustic guitars

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Bed of Creeks and Coils, Kyle Miller - Qobuz

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Out now — Kyle Miller: Bed of Creeks and Coils Twelve solo and chamber works for guitar by William Anderson, Benjamin Boretz, and Kyle Miller, featuring guitarists Daniel Conant and Miller himself

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Bed of Creeks and Coils, by Kyle Miller

12 track album

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The music on this recording for two soprano voices makes its primary limitations its central strengths. The melodic exclusivity of the human voice and its raw vulnerability facilitate works that communicate through the subtlest of means and bring the listener into an intimate expressive space

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New Music for Two Voices

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Out now — Susan Narucki & Kirsten Ashley Wiest: New Music for Two Voices Music for two sopranos featuring vocalists Susan Narucki and Kirsten Ashley Wiest, performing works by Kaija Saariaho, Marti Epstein, Alba Potes, Jeffrey Holmes, Rozalie Hirs, and Pascal Dusapin

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New Music for Two Voices, by Susan Narucki & Kirsten Ashley Wiest

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

From composer and guitarist Kyle Miller's new album Bed of Creeks and Coils coming out tomorrow on our ReEntrant imprint, here's Miller's title work for electric guitar quartet Bodies Electric newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/bed-of...

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Kyle Miller: Bed of Creeks and Coils

Kyle Miller: Bed of Creeks and Coils Bodies Electric From REN12 Kyle Miller: Bed of Creeks and Coils Coming out August 21st, links to pre-order/buy below! Bandcamp: https://newfocusrecordings.bandca

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

From Susan Narucki and Kirsten Ashley Wiest's new album New Music for Two Voices coming out tomorrow, here's a movement from composer Pascal Dusapin's Two Walking newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/new-mu...

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Pascal Dusapin: Two Walking: II. Kiss my lips

Pascal Dusapin: Two Walking: II. Kiss my lips Susan Narucki, soprano; Kirsten Ashley Wiest, coloratura soprano From FCR494 New Music for Two Voices Coming out August 21st, links to pre-order/buy belo

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

Including music for classical, steel-string, and electric guitars, the album represents a broad cross section of directions in the instrument's contemporary repertoire newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/bed-of...

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Bed of Creeks and Coils, by Kyle Miller

12 track album

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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

Featuring music by Kaija Saariaho, Marti Epstein, Alba Potes, Jeffrey Holmes, Rozalie Hirs, and Pascal Dusapin, the duo explores a wide section of techniques and aesthetics that are the focus of composition today through the lens of the intimate vocal chamber format

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New Music for Two Voices

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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 · 14/08/2026

Lemaître’s music strikes a powerful balance — it is atmospheric and ethereal, but remains focused & cohesive. He achieves this through his disciplined treatment of compositional material, reaching broadly for liberated gestures but always retaining a strong link to the seed from which he's building

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La cétoine qui dort dans le cœur de la rose: Solo & Chamber Works for/with Cello, Dan Barrett - Qobuz

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Out now — La cétoine qui dort dans le cœur de la rose: Solo & Chamber Works for/with Cello Five chamber works featuring cellist Dan Barrett by composer Dominique Lemaître, with clarinetist Michiyo Suzuki, pianist Taka Kigawa, violinist Suliman Tekalli, pianist Jed Distler & violist Nikita Yermak

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Dominique Lemaître: La cétoine qui dort dans le cœur de la rose — Solo & Chamber Works for/with Cello, by Dan Barrett

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

With an emphasis on electroacoustic works, Beltline Bones brings contemporary music parameters into the brass ensemble forum, an arena that has sometimes been dominated by early music repertoire, arrangements, and conservative contemporary composition

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Technological Eclipse, Beltline Bones - Qobuz

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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Out now — Beltline Bones: Technological Eclipse New works for trombone quartet Beltline Bones, featuring works by Jorge Variego, Eve Beglarian, Brooks Frederickson, Alec Love, and ensemble member Cole Bartels beltlinebones.bandcamp.com/album/techno...

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Technological Eclipse, by Beltline Bones

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

From trombone quartet Beltline Bones' new album Technological Eclipse coming out this Friday, here's an electroacoustic work by composer Jorge Variego beltlinebones.bandcamp.com/album/techno...

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Jorge Variego: Ocho

Jorge Variego: Ocho Beltline Bones From FCR505 Beltline Bones: Technological Eclipse Coming out August 14th, links to pre-order/buy below! Bandcamp: https://beltlinebones.bandcamp.com/album/technolo

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

Lemaître's compositions are temporally expansive, grounded in spectral approaches to harmony, and inspired by diverse phenomenon, from synesthesia to Greek mythology newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/domini...

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Dominique Lemaître: La cétoine qui dort dans le cœur de la rose — Solo & Chamber Works for/with Cello, by Dan Barrett

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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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