#3732: New Releases, May 2015

It's that time of the month again for the new releases show on New Sounds. John Schaefer carefully separates the wheat from the chaff for this show.  He'll sort through the stacks of new CDs, the Soundcloud files, and other digital submissions which have come across his desk and into his inbox over the past month to present some of the finest new releases. He'll skim off the cream. He'll pick the lentils from the ashes. You get it. 

Sample new music from ShoutHouse, a collaboration involving composer/pianist Will Healy, a classical string section, two rappers, a jazz vocalist and drummer, and a Balkan clarinetist. Also, listen to some music from Spanish multi-instrumentalist Efrén Lopez, who draws his inspiration from the various Mediterranean traditions, with an array of instruments (oud, saz, hurdy-gurdy, guitar, banjo, santur, bouzouki, baglama, davul, harp, etc.) contributing to his compositions. Plus, music for hang drum and magnets by Manu Delago, Beyoncé as arranged by a proggy Seattle-based big band known as the Zubatto Syndicate, and hammered dulcimer-based music from Paul Juba Mueller, who is part of the adventurous rhythm ensemble Mecca Bodega, and more.

PROGRAM #3732– (First aired on 05/28/2015)