Brendan Hasenstab

Brendan Hasenstab is a contributing editor with The Signal.
12
Dec

Note: ‘New Sun’

111 MHz: ‘New Sun.’ The experimental arm of Andrew PM Hunt’s music making, Dialect, makes great effect of his
10
Dec

Note: ‘Compassion’

111 MHz: ‘Compassion.’ This is the title track for the jazz pianist Vijay Iyer’s standout new album, with Linda
05
Dec

Note: ‘Isotope’

111 MHz: ‘Isotope.’ Cookin’ 1960s Jazz is the mode here, with a quartet led by the pianist McCoy Tyner and
03
Dec

Note: ‘Fluorescein’

111 MHz: ‘Fluorescein.’ Aria Cheregosha and Lauren Spaulding formed Tallā Rouge—which means “the gold-red” in a combination of Farsi
28
Nov

Note: ‘Come to Me’

111 MHz: ‘Come to Me.’ From the official motion-picture soundtrack to Nosferatu—the British-Irish composer Robin Carolin brings symphonic vigor
26
Nov

Note: ‘Sunbeat’

111 MHz: ‘Sunbeat.’ Cahill Costello is a guitar-and-drums duo with jazz and classical backgrounds out of Glasgow. From their new
21
Nov

Note: ‘Frekm, Pt 1.’

111 MHz: ‘Frekm, Pt 1.’ London’s Felix Manuel, who records as DjRUM, is back with a typically jazz-influenced, flute-led
19
Nov

Note: ‘The Fatberg Which Weighed as Much as Three Elephants’

111 MHz: ‘The Fatberg Which Weighed as Much as Three Elephants.’ Rubbish Music is, as you might expect, a U.
14
Nov

Note: ‘There Are Easier Ways to Disappear (but I’m Only Good at This One)’

111 MHz: ‘There Are Easier Ways to Disappear (but I’m Only Good at This One).’ The Beirut-based composer Yara
12
Nov

Note: ‘Sometime Too Hot’

111 MHz: ‘Sometime Too Hot.’ The composer Tullis Rennie—also a professor of music in the U.K.—here sculpts