- "Don't Look Down" - Sandbox Percussion and Conor Hanick have incredible chemistry on this album of Chris Cerrone's music, with a concerto for prepared piano and percussion at the center of the action. Cerrone describes the work as "an accidental diary of having lived through the worst pandemic of the last hundred years." His A Natural History of Vacant Lots is a bath of ambient acoustic and electronic sounds, and Ode to Joy is a celebration of the noise of New York City.
- "How to fold the wind" - Caroline Shaw's five-movement work for chorus on this album was inspired by origami, "using speech, inhaled notes, wordless melodies and innovative vocal effects to fold individual voices together into a complex whole." The resulting work is mesmerizing and unfolds in unexpected ways.
- "ad tendo" - this debut release from violinist Simone Porter draws inspiration from French philosopher Simone Weil's insight that "absolutely unmixed attention is prayer." Each piece investigates attention and spiritual alignment, from the dreamy sounds of Andrew Norman's Sabina to the colorful acrobatics of Reena Esmail's Drishti (दृष्टि).
- "John Field: Complete Nocturnes" - Irish composer John Field invented the nocturne, a musical form that evokes the nighttime, but there is no sufficient recognition of his contribution. Pianist Alice Sara Ott sets that record straight in this new recording, a survey of Field's nocturnes played in a manicured manner with great affection.
- "All Living Things" - Korean composer and multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha brings us straight into her world with these recordings, which combine her mastery of traditional Korean instruments (the piri, saenghwang and yanggeum) with more contemporary sounds. The result is something entirely unique and worth your time.
