Brendan Hasenstab

Brendan Hasenstab is a contributing editor with The Signal.
03
Oct

Note: ‘All the Colours Are Singing’

111 MHz: ‘All the Colours Are Singing.’ The experimental guitarist and composer Jessica Ackerley is back with a jazz-fueled ode
01
Oct

Note: ‘Arrayed on the Battlefield’

111 MHz: ‘Arrayed on the Battlefield.’ The Lagos-based musician and composer who records as Ibukun Sunday is back with a
26
Sep

Note: ‘Movement, Before All Flowers’

111 MHz: ‘Movement, Before All Flowers.’ The German composer Max Richter is back with In a Landscape, a new album
24
Sep

Note: ‘HM’

111 MHz: ‘HM.’ The electric guitarist and free jazz exponent Wendy Eisenberg, mostly known for her work with the Bill
19
Sep

Note: ‘Tower of Cloud’

111 MHz: ‘Tower of Cloud.’ This track, from the Japanese vibraphonist and marimba player Masayoshi Fujita, lets a synthesizer open
17
Sep

Note: ‘Introit’

111 MHz: ‘Introit.’ The Australian drummer and composer Laurence Pike is back with a post-Covid requiem that blends chorus (in
12
Sep

Note: ‘Ignition, Sneakers’

111 MHz: ‘Ignition, Sneakers.’ The insistent “bing” from Lia Kohl’s car key in the ignition is the rhythm here,
10
Sep

‘Sylvanshine’

The Oakland-based guitarist and composer Chuck Johnson conjures other worlds, with cathedrals of shimmering guitar. Here on his new album
05
Sep

Note: ‘Before the Lightning Strike’

111 MHz: ‘Before the Lightning Strike.’ This track—by Liew Niyomkarn, from her new album In All Possible Places at
03
Sep

‘Camouflage’

From this year’s The Primordial Pieces, here’s the pianist and composer Leo Chadburn with a kaleidoscopic piano piece