Composer portraits of George Lewis and Marcos Balter, and a program of new saxophone music played by Ryan Muncy
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) recently released two wonderful recordings on its TUNDRA imprint of New Focus, Ryan Muncy's survey of contemporary saxophone music, "ism", featuring his wonderful recording of James Tenney's classic work, "Saxony", and a portrait CD of longtime …
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Calls the label "a star-power new music label"
George Grella of the Brooklyn Rail featured New Focus among several excellent labels in an article published on October 4, 2016, entitled, "Trust in the Labels." Here are his words about New Focus:
"A star-power new music label, around since 2003, that has embraced digital media, especially …
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Toronto based blog picks top labels for 2015
New Focus was selected as one of the top ten labels of 2015 by Toronto based music site, textura. textura has been a great supporter of New Focus releases all year, reviewing several of our releases, including Reiko Fueting's "names, Erased", Red Light New Music's "Barbary Coast", and Scott …
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