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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: Kinga Augustyn

REVIEWS
Arneis Quartet: Moving Shapes (Albany Records)
Or Bareket: /AYIN/ (Enja Records)
Richard Blackford: The Black Lake (Lyrita)
Geof Bradfield/Myra Melford/Ben Goldberg/Dana Hall: Open or Close (Calligram Records)
Brass for Uncommon Times: Brass for Uncommon Times (Naxos)
Cantus: The Secret Letter (Signum Classics)
Cuarteto Iberia: Traditio (Eudora Records)
Gabriel Diaz, Alfonso Sebastian, & Fernado Santiago: An Italian Portrait (Eudora Records)
Natalie Draper & Anne Laver: Interlaced: Music for Organ, et al. (Acis)
Emiko Edwards: Rodeo: Works by Aaron Copland (Lexicon Classics)
Marty Ehrlich: Open Air: The Complete Saxophone Quartet Compositions of Julius Hemphill (Out Of Your Head Records)
Ensemble for These Times: El Tiempo Latine (Aerocade Music)
Esmé Quartet: Nui (Alpha Classics)
EXAUDI: Pocket Universe (NMC Recordings)
Dave Holland: Freedom Call (Edition Records)
John Hollenbeck & Hot Club Jazz Orchestra: Peace and Justice (Flexatonic Records)
Solomiya Ivakhiv: Music of Resilience (Naxos)
Ilya Kaler & Rasa Vitkauskaite: Bridgetower Project: Beethoven, Florence Price & Paquito D'Rivera (Ongaku Records)
Kansas City Symphony: To Awaken the Sleeper: Works of Joel Thompson (Reference Recordings)
Jennifer Koh: The American Concerto, Volume One (Cedille Records)
Jessica Krash: True Stories (Albany Records)
Sonia Lee & Benjamin Loeb: Heartstrings (St7dio Classical)
Jackie Leung: Inside Out: Piano Music by Alvin Singleton (Albany Records)
Kjetil Mulelid: Piano, Unfolding (Sagene records)
Tommy Muellner: Solitary Moon (Calligram Records)
Otis Murphy, Haruko Murphy, & Masaki Tadenuma: Simple Gifts (Navona Records)
Eric Nathan: Double Concertos (Orchid Classics)
James Viggo Poulsen: Heartland Poem (MSR Classics)
Terry Riley, Claire Chase, & JACK Quartet: The Holy Liftoff (Sono Luminus)
Greg Sandow & Terra String Quartet: Three Quartets (Acis)
Benjamin Shorstein & Stephen Michael Newby: The Drum & The Dream: Works For Drums & Orchestra (Albany Records)
Clark Sommers: WaBaSH (Calligram Records)
St. Charles Singers: Dancing Tree: Choral Landscapes (Navona Records)
Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir: A Letter From Helga (Sono Luminus)
Gaia Wilmer: Parabolico (Sunnyside Records)
Patrick Yim: Bamboo Grove (Pentatone)

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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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