
On the Record: January 31, 2020
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This week in On the Record: Carrier releases a new album of deliriously lovely auto-tuned vocal consort music composed by Alex Dowling. Plus dozens of listings for forthcoming releases.

In Review: Sydney Festival
Xenia Hanusiak reports from the Sydney Festival in Australia, probing in depth provocative creations offered by composer Liza Lim and pianist Bernadette Harvey.

In Review: Ultraschall Berlin
Peter Margasak reviews the 2020 Ultraschall Festival in Berlin, a concert series in which the most successful performances were those that pushed against the grain.

Playlist (Um, Listen).
This week's tally of memorable things National Sawdust Log editor Steve Smith has stuck in his ears includes selections featuring Darragh Morgan & John Tilbury, Clara de Asís, Eva-Maria Houben, and Scott Johnson.

On the Record: January 24, 2020
This week in On the Record: Check out an impressive career-overview set devoted to the cellist Charles Curtis and the composers he has championed, plus dozens of listings for forthcoming releases.

Object Collection: D.I.Y. Ethics and Essential Chaos
As Object Collection brings its newest opera, 'You Are Under Our Space Control,' to La MaMa Jan. 23-Feb 2, Kara Feely and Travis Just talk to Greg Nahabedian about Fugazi, John Cage, Sun Ra, and happenstance.

New Music Preview: Jason McMahon
Listen to an exclusive preview track from 'Odd West,' an engrossing new album of acoustic-guitar reveries by Brooklyn indie-music stalwart Jason McMahon, due Jan. 31 on the Shinkoyo label.

In Review: PROTOTYPE Festival 2020
Looking back at everything PROTOTYPE had to offer in a more compact but still wide-ranging 2020 festival, Brin Solomon discusses what worked, what struggled, and what might have been avoided.

Playlist (Interstellar Our Escape).
This week's tally of memorable things National Sawdust Log editor Steve Smith has stuck in his ears includes selections featuring Anáhuac, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Meara O'Reilly, and Michael Gielen.

On the Record: January 17, 2020
This week in On the Record: Check out an immersive collection of contemporary Armenian music, lovingly curated by violinist Movses Pogossian, plus dozens of listings for forthcoming releases.