New Sounds from WNYC

Hear music featuring larger ensembles, or that which might have a big band sound, from Debo Band, Eco-Music Big Band, music by Laura Jurd, Dutch band Jungle By Night, & something from Scottish drummer Corrie Dick. 

Hear unexpected musical dream-teams, with an informed cross-cultural take on Balkan brass music from Raya Brass Band, tropical psychedelic cumbia from Peru-based band Bareto, music from Ghazalaw, who blend Indian Ghazals with Welsh folk traditional music, brass-driven Afro-pop from the Washington DC-based band Elikeh, & more. 

Listen to new music with trumpet including music from the Paris-based trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir Elsaffar, Ben Neill's mutanttrumpet, and more.

North meets South, largely Europe meets Africa in music by French guitarist Titi Robin and Moroccan musician Mehdi Nassouli, the group Monoswezi, & the collaborative group Malithuanie. 

Revisit John Schaefer's “Best Of 2015” shortlist, with works by Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal, Missy Mazzoli & Victoire, Public Service Broadcasting, Sam Lee & Friends, & Kaia Kater.

Violinist, vocalist, looper, composer and producer Emily Wells presents and performs songs from her record, “Promise,” plus music by Ben Folds/yMusic, and Julianna Barwick.

Hear music from Norway’s doom jazz piano trio Splashgirl, trombonist/composer Jacob Garchik and his band of heroes, the quintet Ye Olde, along with Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom & more.

Hear old music, but rearranged and connected with other genres, to make surprisingly new folk music. Listen to Sam Lee and Friends arranging folk songs from the British travelers community, Kaia Kater's Appalachian folk music. Then Sam Amidon sings an Anglo-American folk song, and the Furrow Collective offer up a Scottish folk song, and more. 

Listen to electroacoustic music from Berlin, Iceland, the U.K., & New York, including the latest by NYC-based cellist & composer Julia Kent, new music for dance by Jon Opstad & more.

Explore the unexpected musical combination of cello and trombone: with electronics, in an African music setting from Blick Bassy, in a post-rock way, as a chamber pop song, and more.

Hear Anglo-American Folk Songs for this New Sounds, including music from Scotland’s Furrow Collective, San Francisco-based Meg Baird, and the Boise, Idaho-based string-band trio, Hillfolk Noir. Hear some American folk from NY-based Last Forever, featuring the late Sonya Cohen (of the Seeger family.) Then there’s a chamber music arrangement of “Young Emily’ by Bryce Dessner for the Chicago-based ensemble eighth blackbird, from their new record, “Filament.”

Chamber music unlike what you've heard before, featuring music by the band Forro in the Dark, which combines the driving dance rhythms of forro from Northeastern Brazil with rock, jazz, reggae, folk and country.  Listen to selections from their latest musical adventure - "Forro Zinho - Forro in the Dark plays Zorn" - an exploration of the lyrical, driving melodies of John Zorn as Brazilian-tinged dance music. Then, there's music from Eviyan, which is clarinetist/composer  Evan Ziporyn, the violinist/vocalist/composer Iva Bitova, and guitarist/composer Gyan Riley. Also, hear chamber music with a Japanese cast from Seattle-based composer and percussionist Paul Kikuchi. Plus, there's American composer Shankar Tucker’s piece "Ae Re Chanda" combining Indian classical music with American jazz and classical sounds. And lastly, music by Christopher Tin, inspired by water. 

Hear new music from several different mid-sized groups on this New Sounds. Listen to music from the recent album, “Dreamfall” by the NY-based chamber band Now Ensemble, playing Andrea Mazzriello’s “Trust Fall.” Then there’s a Nico Muhly two-fer, with Sufjan Stevens’ “Year of the Dragon” in an Nico Muhly arrangement for the ensemble yMusic, along with chamber music sextet eighth blackbird (Chicago-based) playing Muhly’s work, “Doublespeak,” from their recent record, "Filament."  Sample music from The Young Scamels, a group out of Louisville, KY, consisting of former members of Rachel’s, including the late Jason Noble, who convened the ensemble back in 2007 to do music for a production of “The Tempest.” Listen also to the Greek-French-Columbian-Spanish Quartetto Minimo, and their jazz/chamber rock from Spain. Then, California-based composer/violinist Robin Cox & his ensemble play a 3-part piece, “Faster Than That.” Plus, music by Build & composer Matt McBane & more.

For this New Sounds, hear new indie chamber works from the NYC-based group, NOW Ensemble from their recent, "Dreamfall," and the Australian chamber band Nonsemble. Plus, music by composer/bandleader/singer Becca Stevens, from her daring and captivating record, “Perfect Animal.”  

Hear Afropop and Afrobeat music from West Africa and elsewhere, including new music from Malian desert-blues queen Khaira Arby, from recent music from Afrobeat band Antibalas, from the father of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti, & more. For a full playlist, visit http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newsounds/articles/new-sounds-podcasts/