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Home Assembly Music
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Infraction
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Jaeger Community
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Lost Tribe Sound
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mü-nest
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Reference Recordings
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photo: Bill Wadman

INTERVIEW
Ten Questions with Zac Harris

REVIEWS
Sophia Agranovich: A Reverie of the Soul: Piano Works by Robert Schumann (Centaur Records)
Arneis Quartet: Moving Shapes (Albany Records)
Kinga Augustyn: Balm for the Soul: Romantic Violin Recital Vol. 2 (Centaur Records)
Anastasiya Bazhenova: From Mendelssohn to Madness (Etcetera Records)
Jon Catler: The Young Mountain of the East (Chaikin Records)
Christopher Dammann: Dead Words (Shifting Paradigm Records)
Avishai Darash: The Planned Child (TRPTK)
Federica Deiana: Instant Light (Home Normal)
Christian Dillingham: As It Relates To Now (Shifting Paradigm Records)
Simone Dinnerstein & Baroklyn: Hourglass (naïve)
Jingyang Dong: Quiet Irises: Piano Works by French Female Composers (MSR Classics)
Alex Dowling: Breathers (Little Magic Records)
Duo Gazzana: Prokofiev, Pärt, Schnittke (ECM New Series)
Emiko Edwards: Rodeo: Works by Aaron Copland (Lexicon Classics)
Inna Faliks: Stranger Things (Navona Records)
Folias Duo: Great Lakes (Folias Music)
Stacy Garrop: INVICTUS (Cedille Records)
Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra: Mahler's Symphony No. 5 (Reference Recordings)
Zacc Harris: American Reckoning (Shifting Paradigm Records)
Hermitage Piano Trio: Dvorák's Circle (Reference Recordings)
Dave Holland: Freedom Call (Edition Records)
Charlotte Hu: Goyescas (Pentatone)
Ariana Kim: (un)common thread (Saffron Soul Records)
Akira Kosemura: Diary 2020-2022 (Schole Records)
Alexander Lipay & Fanya Lin: The Art of Transcription (Navona Records)
Magdaléna Manderlová: Kozmické louky (Gruenrekorder)
Ana-Marija Markovina: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Complete Piano Works Vol. 1 (Hänssler Classic)
Dmitry Matvienko & Aarhus Symphony Orchestra: Prokofiev & Silvestrov (OUR Recordings)
Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco: Vivaldi: Concerti per vari strumenti II (Naïve Classiques)
Eric Nathan: Double Concertos (Orchid Classics)
Oulu Sinfonia & Rumon Gamba: Scenes from Finland (Chandos)
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Manfred Honeck: Dvorák / Simon (Reference Recordings)
James Viggo Poulsen: Heartland Poem (MSR Classics)
Rhucle: The Water (Home Normal)
Rikke Sandberg: Carl Nielsen: The Ultimate Solo Piano Collection (OUR Recordings)
Arman Sangalang: Waypoints (Calligram Records)
Benjamin Shorstein & Stephen Michael Newby: The Drum & The Dream: Works For Drums & Orchestra (Albany Records)
Clark Sommers: WaBaSH (Calligram Records)
Krešimir Stražanac & Kresimir Starcevic: Vatroslav Lisinski: Deutsche Lieder (Hänssler Classic)
Helen Sung Big Band: Oracles (Sunnyside Records)
Una Sveinbjarnardóttir: Ea Fantasia (Sono Luminus)
Tomosla: Moor to Sea (Home Normal)
Francesco Tristano: Bach: The 6 French Suites (naïve)
Two O'Clock Lab Band: Return Two Paradise (North Texas Jazz)
Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir: A Letter From Helga (Sono Luminus)
Luke Welch: Herstory: Solo Piano Works from Female Composers of Colour (Luke Welch)
Brian Woods: Prokofiev: Miniatures (Navona Records)
Denny Zeitlin: Odyssey (Sunnyside Records)

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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).

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