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Ontario, Canada
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Acis
ASIP
Avie Records
Belarca
Biophilia Records
BIS Records
Blue Griffin
Bright Shiny Things
Calligram Records
Cedille Records
Cold Blue
Da Vinci Classics
Delos
Divine Art
Edition Records
El Paraiso Records
Eudora Records
Faith Strange
flau
Fluid Audio
Gizeh Records
Greenleaf Music
Gruenrekorder
Home Assembly Music
Home Normal
Important Records
In A Circle Records
Infraction
Innova
Jaeger Community
Kitchen.
Lost Tribe Sound
Low Point
mü-nest
Navona Records
New Amsterdam Records
New Focus Recordings
Øra Fonogram
Orchid Classics
Origin Records
Palace of Lights
Pentatone
Polar Seas Recordings
Preserved Sound
Rattle
Reference Recordings
ROOM40
Rune Grammofon
Schole
Scissor Tail
Shifting Paradigm
Slowcraft Records
Solaire Records
SOMM Recordings
Sono Luminus
Spotted Peccary
Sunnyside Records
Time Released Sound
Tompkins Square
Touch
TRPTK
TUM Records
Western Vinyl
Whirlwind Recordings
White Paddy Mountain
Woolgathering Records

photo: Jocelyn Hagen

REVIEWS
John Luther Adams: Prophecies of Fire (Cold Blue)
Trevor Baca: Samuel Beckett: Stirrings Still (ECM New Series)
Emmy Bean & Ronnie Kuller: Her Only Light: Songs of Connie Converse (Sono Luminus)
Richard Blackford: The Black Lake (Lyrita)
Blåly: Resonans (April Records)
Pierre Bleuse & Odense Symphony Orchestra: Ravel Abroad (OUR Recordings)
Jakob Bro & Midori Takada: From Such A Blue Sky (Loveland Music)
Jakob Bro, Joe Lovano, & Midori Takada: Komorebi (Loveland Music)
Jakob Bro, Larry Grenadier, & Jorge Rossy featuring Charles Lloyd: Bjerge, Strand (Loveland Music)
Erin Brophey: Finding Our Connection (Train Records)
Christopher Cerrone: New Addresses (Better Company Records)
Ernesto Cervini Quartet: Water Pistols at Dawn (TPR Records)
Kirstin Chávez: Amour: Les Chansons que j'aime (Navona Records)
Eric Choate: Tribute & Remembrance (Priory)
consonari: Tell Me a Story (Navona Records)
Tara Davidson: The Reflection of an Echo (T.Sound)
Jon De Lucia: Brubeck Project Strikes Again! (Musaeum Clausum Recordings)
Gabriel Diaz, Alfonso Sebastian, & Fernado Santiago: An Italian Portrait (Eudora Records)
Duo HaLo: reFrame (Azure Sky Records)
Ensemble Altera: The Four Elements (Pentatone)
Inna Faliks & Daniel Schlosberg: Mahler/Zemlinsky: Symphony No. 6 (Sono Luminus)
Nick Finzer: Songs & Stories: Chapter 1 (Outside in Music)
Tania Giannouli & Nik Bärtsch: Metakosmos (Fuga Libera)
Yosef Gutman: Perfect Traveler (Soul Song Records)
Tui Hirv & Páll Ragnar Pálsson: Layers (Sono Luminus)
Arlen Hlusko: komorebi (Tippet Rise)
Noam Lemish/Sid Robinovitch/James Rolfe: Pursue Peace (New Focus Recordings)
Rintaro Mikami: Cosmolamps (Rintaro Mikami)
Weston Olencki & TAK ensemble: when the great fires were lit on the other side of the ocean (Sweet Wreath / TAK editions)
Brandon Seabrook: Utility Modern (Out Of Your Head Records)
András Schiff: Johannes Brahms: Klavierstücke (ECM New Series)
Jussi Suonikko: Nocturnal Flowers (Punaiset Levyt)
Oliver Talukder: Briefly Gorgeous (Cedille Records)
Andrew Toombs: Alloy (Shifting Paradigm Records)
Twin Talk: Delights (Shifting Paradigm Records)
Nico Widdowson Trio: On Fools and Clowns (Trash City Records)
Sam Wilson: Sowing Spring (Sam Wilson)
Michael Wollny: eine winterreise (ACT)

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textura's premiere issue appeared in August 2004 and its 135th in June 2016; during that time, eleven advertising-free editions were published each year featuring experimental, electronic, jazz, and classical music-related reviews, interviews, and articles; in August 2016, textura retired the monthly format in favour of regular updating that sees new content—reviews, articles, mp3s, and videos—added throughout the month. In 2008, the textura label was founded, and five full-length recordings of original material have been released to date (details here).

textura is structured as follows: four articles and forty reviews are displayed on the reviews | articles page; when new articles and reviews are added, the earliest ones move to the site's archives, accessible from the label | archives page. Sixteen downloadable mp3s and ten videos appear on the mp3s | videos page; again, the newest mp3 and video additions displace the earliest ones (unlike articles and reviews content, mp3s and videos are not archived). The four header images on the pages following the opening display are designed to draw attention to recently reviewed recordings of exceptional quality.