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  • The genre-busting world of keyboardist Robert Glasper
    The genre-busting world of keyboardist Robert Glasper
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    Just a few days before we filmed this conversation with Robert Glasper at New York's legendary Blue Note jazz club, I went to hear him on the opening night of his month-long residency there, an annual event now in its fifth year and so beloved that it's become known as "Robtober."
    How Corinne Bailey Rae and Theaster Gates are preserving Black culture
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    How Corinne Bailey Rae and Theaster Gates are preserving Black culture
    Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard's unexpected path into the opera house
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    Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard's unexpected path into the opera house
    The place was packed. There was a mood — happy and buzzy and a little sweaty, given how full the club was. And it was remarkable how impossible it was to define the crowd. Show me a concert audience and I can usually call it at a glance: symphony, jazz, folk, new music. But this was a room of all ages, all colors, many languages and styles. It was beautiful.
    As musicians, we talk a lot about genre — how to redefine it, reshape it, even escape it altogether. How to create work that is, in Duke Ellington's words, "beyond category." We're informed and shaped by legacies of history and tradition, but also inspired to push at their boundaries. And that's hard to do within the confines of a music industry that is, in many ways, held up by the walls we're trying to break through. Genre and category still define and constrain us, like it or not.
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    Rob has managed to tear down the walls, or at least to carve massive doorways between what he calls the many rooms of his musical house. He moves easily and comfortably among spaces that resonate with the various histories of jazz and hip-hop, classic and contemporary, and the vibrations of his musical ideas reshape traditional structures into fluid, freeform designs.
    In our conversation, Rob and I talk about the potential of building a strong foundation and then having the courage to build on it something new and unexpected, a house that you keep expanding and reconfiguring to welcome and shelter multitudes.
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  • 10 years later, the 'Beyoncé' surprise drop still offers lessons about control
    10 years later, the 'Beyoncé' surprise drop still offers lessons about control
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    Ten years ago today — at midnight on lucky Friday the 13th of December, 2013 — Beyoncé released a surprise, self-titled album, available only on iTunes for $15.99. Beyoncé was a project conceived in secrecy, but nothing about it was small: The album, which had no advance singles or promotion, was released all at once, with arty videos to accompany each of its 14 songs. Fans stayed up much of the night to hear the whole album, thrilled by its unexpected arrival. The appearance of Beyoncé was a cultural event.
    Even for an artist as successful as Beyoncé, a surprise album that was only available through a single digital platform, and only available as a full package, was rare in the music industry at that time — a move that felt truly risky — but it paid off instantaneously. After she announced the album's existence on Facebook and Instagram at midnight, Beyoncé immediately went to No. 1 on iTunes in 90 countries.
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    The release of this album, her fifth solo project following an already successful stint leading Destiny's Child, was a huge statement for Beyoncé the artist and Beyoncé the businesswoman. Here was one of the biggest performing stars of the 21st century bluntly announcing her complete control of her art and the method of its distribution.
    The gambit worked. Beyoncé wound up selling more than 617,000 copies in its first three days alone, easily soaring to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. In one stroke, Beyoncé proved that she didn't need any of the industry apparatus — not marketing, not promotion, not radio, not magazine interviews, not any of it — to reach her fans or to shape her brand.
    Beyoncé wasn't the first major musical artist to sidestep the promotion machine. In 2007, for example, Radiohead had broadened record industry norms — and shocked many in the business — with the release of its album In Rainbows. The band announced that fans could pay whatever they wanted, up to £99.99, to download the album. Earlier in 2013, both David Bowie and My Bloody Valentine had also sprung surprise releases on their fans.
    There was even an example in Beyoncé's own household from just a few months earlier. In July 2013, her husband, Jay-Z, had released his album Magna Carta... Holy Grail as a free download for Samsung Galaxy users, a few days before it was otherwise available.
    But pop music in 2013 operated on very different principles. By the 1970s, the music industry had largely taught consumers to experience recorded music by buying and listening to entire albums. By the time of the downloading and then streaming revolutions, however, pop as a genre was cycling back toward a 1950s and early '60s model. Singles again ruled the day, both artistically and economically: Fans could just download a single song for 99 cents apiece, or just stream it as part of a monthly subscription service. Forget about having to skip less appealing tracks — you didn't have to bother with them at all, and you certainly didn't have to pay for the ones you didn't like.
    In a video about the making of Beyoncé — naturally enough, released by the singer herself — she talked about that split. "Now, people only listen to a few seconds of the song on their iPods," she observed back then. "They don't really invest in a whole album. It's all about the single, and the hype. There's so much that gets between the music and the artist and the fans. I felt like, 'I don't want anybody to give the message when my record is coming out. I just want this to come out when it's ready — and from me, to my fans.' I wanted to make this body of work. And I feel like that's something that's lost in pop music."
    Feminists Everywhere React To Beyonce's Latest
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    Feminists Everywhere React To Beyonce's Latest
    Beyoncé was instrumental in upending the well-worn ways a pop project was released at that time. Pop still relied on advance singles, promotional pushes and traditional teases. In the old days of 2013, her label, Columbia Records, would also reasonably have had concerns that the still-extant sellers of CDs and vinyl, including such heavy big-box hitters as Walmart and Target, might well be angered that they were being totally cut out of the Beyoncé-to-adoring-fans pipeline at a time when sales of physical CDs and LPs still made up more than 30% of the market, according to the RIAA. (After Beyoncé's splashy online debut, Columbia eventually released physical versions of the album and made it available via other digital providers.)
    There's a fascinating 2014 case study of Beyoncé published by Harvard Business School, written by professor Anita Elberse and then-MBA student Stacie Smith, and titled — what else? — simply "Beyoncé." Lee Anne Callahan-Longo, the then-general manager of the singer's company, Parkwood, explained to Elberse and Smith that Queen Bey had a three-fold strategy behind the surprise digital drop of Beyoncé: She wanted to drop the complete album at once, she wanted to dodge any leaks and she wanted to make a video to accompany each song.
    By that point, Beyoncé was no stranger to leaks: Materials from two of her previous solo albums, Dangerously in Love and 4, had found their way online illegally before the projects' release dates. And earlier in 2013, fellow pop stars like Katy Perry and Kanye West had already experienced the disappointment of seeing their music leak online. Moreover, as Parkwood's then-head of worldwide marketing, Jim Sabey, explained to Elberse and Smith: "She did not want her album judged off of one three-and-a-half-minute song. She wanted it to be seen as a complete body of work." In other words, she wanted her fans to experience her work — both artistically and economically — as an album. And she managed to prevent any leaks at all.
    Because of the way Beyoncé released this album as one whole concept — and with videos accompanying every single song — she also left it to her fans to decide which tracks were important to them and what they liked best. Every time a record label releases a single from an artist or a band before a whole record drops, for example, they are pretty much putting a neon arrow on certain songs and decreeing, "This is what you want to listen to." Instead, Beyoncé was telling her fans, "You listen. You decide." Certain songs, like "Drunk in Love" and "XO," emerged as fan favorites, but they weren't preordained.
    Similarly, Beyoncé had its own word-of-mouth promotion, 2013 style. Upon the album's midnight release, fans and critics alike stayed up well beyond the wee hours to hear it in full, and raced to be among the first to announce their opinions online. On social media, the (unpaid) Beyhive was enthusiastically doing what might formerly have been under the purview of a small army of (paid) industry insiders.
    The success of Beyoncé helped carve a new path, at least for certain megawatt pop stars. In the wake of Beyoncé, artists including U2, Frank Ocean and Rihanna also surprised fans with new material. (Lesser-known musicians don't have that leeway: if nobody knows who you are, and you drop a surprise album, who's going to care?)
    Perhaps most notably, in July 2020, Taylor Swift dropped Folklore — which, like Beyoncé, was a complete album — with less than 24 hours' notice; less than five months later, Swift dropped a second surprise album, Evermore.
    Just last week, when Swift was named Time magazine's person of the year, she talked about how much of an influence Beyoncé has been on her and others. Swift said that Beyoncé "taught every artist how to flip the table and challenge archaic business practices."
    Let's Talk About Taylor Swift's 'Folklore'
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    Let's Talk About Taylor Swift's 'Folklore'
    Now, a decade after Beyoncé — and in the wake of Taylor Swift's sister albums — the surprise drop has become much less of a surprise, but that doesn't mean that Queen Bey hasn't kept it in her arsenal. Earlier this month, she released a new single, "My House," without warning. More notable was how Beyoncé released her statement album Lemonade in 2016 — again as a surprise, and again with full visual complements — almost as if she was daring the public to treat the success of Beyoncé as a fluke. With that album, she took her signature mix of art and commerce even one step further: Lemonade was initially available only on the digital platform she co-owned, Tidal Music.
    Beyoncé still wields an enormous and unusual power: In our hyper-fractured pop-culture universe of today, she has trained her fans to turn to her as a collective at certain points in time. The decade anniversary of Beyoncé was greeted with much speculation: Would she release new merch on Wednesday? New visuals? A new vinyl edition?
    In the end, she released a reflective video marking the 10th anniversary, which includes a brief clip of her collaboration with Nicki Minaj on the song "Feeling Myself." "Know where you was when that digital popped?" she sings out triumphantly. "I stopped the world!" Yes, she did.
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  • The 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
    The 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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    Since the pandemic began, I've not been going to concerts — as in none since March 2020 — until this year. So far, I've dodged the COVID bullet (yes, an outlier), though I'm still squeamish about large crowds. Still, this year I did jump back in the saddle to experience a carefully curated selection of live performances.
    Conductor Rafael Payare led the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in a dynamic, youthful account of Mahler's 5th, while Yuja Wang's blur of fingers made for a ripsnorting Bartók Piano Concerto No. 2. To hear flutist Claire Chase and the Helsinki Philharmonic brilliantly navigate the dreamscape sounds of Kaija Saariaho, who suddenly died three weeks after that May performance, now seems like a balm for a deep musical wound. And I'm still a little buzzed from a visit to Cologne, Germany — a modernist music stronghold — to bask in a centennial György Ligeti concert (including Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes), conducted by Matthias Pintscher.
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    These concerts were among the year's delights, and while live music is always best, the bulk of my classical music nourishment came, once again, from recordings. Perhaps buoyed by the terrific orchestral concerts I saw, symphonic recordings resonated with me this year, none more so than the kaleidoscopic escapade that is Thomas Adès' Dante. Like its namesake's famous 14th century poem, Adès' 90-minute ballet score guides us down into hell and back up, through purgatory, into paradise — and seemingly beyond, thanks to an astonishing performance by Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
    It's endlessly fascinating to hear how composers choose to wield their symphonic forces. Finnish composer Lotta Wennäkoski, a new discovery for me, displays a bold Van Gogh sensibility for radiant coloration and quirky textures in three rigorously built pieces played by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Joan Tower's undervalued Concerto for Piano (Homage to Beethoven) received a tremendous reboot at the hands of Marc-André Hamelin, and we now have a fuller picture of Missy Mazzoli the orchestral composer in the album Dark with Excessive Bright, highlighting four harmonically fresh, dramatically charged works.
    Aside from the symphonic bonanza, there were heavenly vocals this year. The sunny-voiced tenor Jonathan Tetelman released a resplendent Puccini disc, while the late Jessye Norman's discography grew with a three-disc set of previously unreleased recordings, and the French conductor Raphäel Pichon issued a scorching rendition of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. The new music vocal outfit Roomful of Teeth makes appearances on one of the year's most satisfying releases, STILLPOINT, marking the studio return, after a 12-year absence, of pianist Awadagin Pratt in six new works for piano.
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    These albums, and a few more below, were the source of much joy for me in a year when it increasingly seemed in short supply. I hope they provide the same for you.
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    Thomas Adès
    Dante
    For Those Who Like: The Divine Comedy, Mahler, roller coasters
    The Story: Dante Alighieri's epic poem La Divina Commedia might be 700 years old, but it's still inspiring artists today. Dante, an evening-length ballet with Wayne McGregor's choreography, premiered in 2021 and now receives its recorded debut with Gustavo Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Adès is our musical tour guide through hell, where we meet a broad spectrum of sinners, from "The Thieves — devoured by reptiles" to the man himself, "Satan — in the lake of ice," before working our way through purgatory and then into paradise.
    The Music: The musical acid trip within the "Inferno" is uproariously orchestrated in blinding technicolor. Brass snarls, winds gasp and strings swirl with nods to Liszt, Berlioz and Stravinsky. Still, the rigorously crafted sound world is textbook Adès, and the performance is both meticulous and, well, hell-raising. "Purgatorio" is the polar opposite. Amid the haunting (pre-recorded) chant of a cantor's morning prayer, the orchestra adopts a Middle Eastern dialect with wheezy contrabassoons and snaky melodies. "Paradiso" is indeed heavenly — and more, a cosmic journey, spiraling ever upward with orchestral colorings and textures that sound truly out of this world.
    Awadagin Pratt
    STILLPOINT
    For Those Who Like: T.S. Eliot, Roomful of Teeth, new piano music
    The Story: A young Awadagin Pratt burst on the scene in the 1990s with awards, appearances on Sesame Street and Good Morning America and a big record deal. It's been 12 years since Pratt released an album, but what a comeback record he's made. Inspired by a few lines in T.S. Eliot's Burnt Norton, Pratt handed the text to six composers as a jumping-off point. What he got in return was a startling array of works ranging from solo piano to miniature piano concertos to works with orchestra, piano and voices.
    The Music: The six works are as individual as their composers. Jessie Montgomery's Rounds is a rippling concerto, complete with virtuosic cadenza. Tyshawn Sorey's contribution channels Morton Feldman's austere, quiet canvases, with diaphanous vocals from Roomful of Teeth, who uncannily imitate the bird calls Paola Prestini writes into her Code, which takes further inspiration from Eliot's love letters. Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks scales down to solo piano and a theme of sacred ecstasy, while Alvin Singleton draws on Bach and jazz. Judd Greenstein's Still Point, another mini-concerto, is propelled by retro minimalist vocals and sweeping, neo-romantic gestures.
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    Jonathan Tetelman
    The Great Puccini
    For Those Who Like: Pavarotti, Italian sunshine, full-throated melody
    The Story: Poised to make his highly awaited Metropolitan Opera debut later this season, the rising opera star — and former Manhattan nightclub DJ — Jonathan Tetelman has released a buoyant all-Puccini disc, his second album for the swanky Deutsche Grammophon label. Born in Chile, Tetelman was adopted by American parents who raised him in New Jersey. He studied first as a baritone — evident in the cocoa-colored lower range of his voice — before switching to tenor in grad school.
    The Music: Few tenors have as much pure Italian sunshine in their voice as Tetelman does. Reminiscent of Pavarotti at times, but with burgundy-colored timbres, Tetelman shines in this melody-laden smorgasbord of Puccini arias. Yes, there's the obligatory "Nessun dorma," where Tetelman produces requisite power and steel, but to hear him sing the more congenial "Parigi! È la città dei desideria," from the lesser-known La Rondine, is to hear the ardent heart of a young man falling in love with the city of Paris on first sight.
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    Missy Mazzoli
    Dark with Excessive Bright
    For Those Who Like: Joan Tower, Bartók, violin concertos
    The Story: Lately, composer Missy Mazzoli has made a name for herself in the opera house. Breaking the Waves, from 2016, was a breakthrough critical success. Then came Proving Up and, in 2021, The Listeners, a psychological nail-biter right out of The Twilight Zone. Now she's working on a commission from the Metropolitan Opera. But what about Missy Mazzoli the orchestral composer? The album Dark with Excessive Bright answers that question in a most gratifying way by devoting itself to four Mazzoli symphonic pieces, proving that she can create shimmering instrumental music with large forces. The Music: Mazzoli admits she's drawn to "weird harmonies," but the album is tonal — in a Bartók or Joan Tower kind of way — with notes stacked to produce fresh, often unusual sounds. In the Sinfonia "For Orbiting Spheres," she deploys harmonicas in three different keys to achieve the effect she describes as "a hurdy-gurdy flung recklessly into space," while in the title track, a violin concerto, she blends a crepuscular string section with glittering passages for the soloist. And in Orpheus Undone, a work that contemplates the stretching of time, a woodblock keeps a tick-tock beat as strings bend like taffy, rubbing against flurries of warped winds.
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    Aizuri Quartet
    Earthdrawn Skies
    For Those Who Like: Sibelius, string quartets, folk dances
    The Story: Formed in 2012, the Aizuri Quartet takes its name from a vibrant style of Japanese woodblock printing. They've etched similar detail and fresh artistry into their second album, which draws together eight centuries of music. The band has reached for a following far beyond standard classical music borders, opening for Wilco and appearing with the indie rock band on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. With two brand-new members, it will be curious to see what the versatile quartet comes up with next.
    The Music: New music champions, the Aizuris also have a keen ear for music that deserves a brighter spotlight. The ear-opening discovery here is the Jamaican-born British composer Eleanor Alberga, now in her 70s, and her searching, sometimes astringent String Quartet No. 1. There's a wispy arrangement of the 12th century abbess Hildegard von Bingen's Columba aspexit and the earthy feel of folk songs by the ethnomusicologist Komitas Vardapet. They all stand in the shadow of Jean Sibelius, whose String Quartet in D minor towers over the album like a solitary, snow-draped pine. Subtitled "Voces Intimae" (Intimate Voices), the quartet is a moody self-reflection of the composer's inward struggles, with a brooding adagio flanked by two scherzo-like flashes of jittery optimism.
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    Lotta Wennäkoski
    Sigla/Flounce/Sedecim
    For Those Who Like: Kaija Saariaho, Thomas Adès, Debussy
    The Story: While still under the radar here in the U.S., the 53-year-old Finnish composer's reputation is growing, and this arresting album of orchestral works, which just won a Gramophone Award, should add another boost. Wennäkoski's breakthrough came in 2017 when her orchestral piece Flounce debuted at London's famed Last Night of the Proms; it has since received nearly 50 performances. With all the color and alluring textures in her music, it's not surprising to learn she studied with the late Kaija Saariaho.
    The Music: While Flounce is pure symphonic flamboyance, with its madly fluttering winds, sonic booms and buzzing strings, the three-paneled Sedecim shows a darker, subtler side of Wennäkoski's orchestral prowess. In the central section, we're whisked to the battlefields of WWI in a nightmarish collection of splintered sounds. Sigla, her harp concerto, feels like a ballet of swirling color, tamed by a central slow, ghostly movement. Wennäkoski told the BBC that her music should have "a feeling of air, space and clarity," and with these agile, detailed performances by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, harpist Sivan Magan and conductor Nicholas Collon, she's gotten her wish.
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    Jessye Norman
    The Unreleased Masters
    For Those Who Like: musical mementos, Strauss' Four Last Songs, soaring sopranos
    The Story: For complex reasons — some now half-forgotten to the mists of time — Jessye Norman, before her sudden death in 2019, refused to release the music on this three-CD set, recorded between 1989 and 1998. Still, with a view to benefiting her posthumous philanthropic endeavors, Norman's family gave the green light. And aren't we lucky! The great soprano is in fine, often pristine voice throughout, and the repertoire — from Haydn and Berlioz to Wagner and Britten — is especially wide-ranging. Of chief interest is an hour's worth of excerpts from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, a role tailor-made for Norman's voice, yet one she never sang on stage or recorded in full.
    The Music: An unexpected trove for Norman fanatics, the Tristan excerpts prove she had the character deep within her. And for those who cherish her luxurious 1982 studio recording of Four Last Songs by Strauss, here's another one, recorded live seven years later in a glorious, slightly swifter performance with the voice placed more forward in the mix. It was to be coupled with Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder, which appears here as a master class in opulence and breath control. Berlioz's La mort de Cléopâtre, Haydn's Scena di Berenice and Britten's Phaedra were slated for a "three queens" concept album; Norman nixed the original mix, so it's been reworked for this release. It's all another example of the soprano's insightful singing and keen ear for programming.
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    Arvo Pärt
    Tractus
    For Those Who Like: Brian Eno's ambient music, choral singing, peaceful blood pressure
    The Story: Tõnu Kaljuste has been conducting performances of Arvo Pärt's music with these forces (the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir) for three decades. For Tractus, he's hand-picked a group of works by the composer that have the uncanny power to comfort and assuage. (It actually lowers my blood pressure. I've measured.) And given the violent state of our world these days, the album couldn't come at a better time. That the pieces are all sacred matters little. Religious or not, you can feel the effects of music that is not just pretty, but rigorously constructed for heart and head.
    The Music: Halfway through the opening track, Littlemore Tractus, something remarkable happens — the chorus finally takes flight, blossoming into pure sunlight. In this instance and many others throughout the album, you can witness the mysterious power of music to defy description in words. Like the warm blanket of strings that caresses you in the 7th of the Greater Antiphons, the dusky light that pokes through in Veni creator, the slightly unsettling thunder of the bass drum in These Words and the lullaby of innocence that closes the album, you just feel it.
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    Joan Tower
    Concerto for Piano (Homage to Beethoven)
    For Those Who Like: Missy Mazzoli, Beethoven, muscular music
    The Story: Joan Tower is one of the most self-effacing artists, yet other leading composers like Julia Wolfe, Missy Mazzoli and Tania León look up to her with reverence. Tower blazed a path in American music, from humble beginnings when she doubted her ability to nationwide visibility with Made in America, an orchestral work performed in all 50 states. Now 85, Tower could rest on her achievements, but she's still fulfilling commissions with her singular, sturdy music. This album from the dependable Boston Modern Orchestra Project, an orchestra devoted to contemporary music, spotlights four terrific concertos with expert soloists.
    The Music: When Tower began writing her piano concerto in 1985, she experienced something supernatural. Her favorite composer, Beethoven, she says, entered the room and a conversation ensued. Tower ended up embedd
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  • Regional Goes Global, Part 3: How a magical Mexican town keeps banda tradition alive
    Regional Goes Global, Part 3: How a magical Mexican town keeps banda tradition alive
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    You know all those tubas and brass instruments you hear behind your favorite regional Mexican hits? That's banda sinaloense and this week Alt.Latino wraps up the Regional Goes Global series with a visit to Sinaloa, Mexico, the birthplace of the genre.
    Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras visit the picturesque town Mocorito, a pueblo magico where tradition and pride in the musical heritage runs deep. That's the case even among members of the drug cartels, which are responsible for some of the country's societal ills. It's a complex story as passionate and heartfelt as the music that stretches from the hills of Sinaloa to this side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler, with production support from Lilly Quiroz, Suraya Mohamed, Josephine Nyounai and Natalia Fidelholtz. The editor for this episode is Jacob Ganz, and our project manager is Grace Chung. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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  • Talking about the best albums of 2023

    Talking about the best albums of 2023

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    It's that time of year again. Over the next few weeks at NPR.org and here on the All Songs Considered podcast, we'll be sharing lists of and conversations about the best music of 2023.

    We're kicking things off with the standout albums of the year. Gathered on the show are NPR Music's three main critics: Rodney Carmichael, who writes about hip-hop and R&B; Nate Chinen of WRTI, who covers jazz and classical; and Ann Powers, maven of pop, rock, folk, country and a little of everything else. Speaking with editor Daoud Tyler-Ameen, the trio dives into a heavy and heady year to discuss the releases that inspired the most vivid feelings, and together make a case — in an era when singles and playlists drive the industry numbers — for the album as a still-indispensable art form.

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    The fun won't stop there. Stay tuned for more conversations about the songs that made us drop everything and the tours that turned into vessels for community. There will be lists of our favorite releases and conversations about the sounds and stars that defined the year, enough to keep you listening well into 2024.


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  • The best songs of 2023
    The best songs of 2023
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    Illustration by Jed Chisholm for NPR
    It's pretty impossible to keep up with all the amazing tracks that drop in any given year — but that didn't stop us from trying. On this edition of All Songs Considered, host Robin Hilton sits down with NPR Music's Hazel Cills, Sheldon Pearce and Anamaria Sayre to play, debate and celebrate the year's best songs, from Olivia Rodrigo's "Bad Idea Right?" and J Noa's "Autodidacta" to Alana Springsteen's "Twenty Something," Victoria Monet's "On My Mama" and more.
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    Olivia Rodrigo: "Bad Idea Right?" from GUTS
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    There are so many things that can lead you from one song to another — a great voice or the way a turn of phrase sticks in your head, an unforgettable riff or rhyme. The infinite possibilities of the streaming era promised to expose listeners to a wider range of songs, so wouldn't it be nice if playlists felt more like play? Why stick with the algorithmically generated tried and true when all it takes to make a great playlist is active interest, some musical knowledge and the willingness to fully engage with the music. And maybe some friends to help with recommendations.
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    SZA, SOS
    Top Dawg / RCA
    SZA
    SOS
    RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 9, 2022
    Six years ago, SZA completely changed the trajectory of R&B and a generation. In an industry that runs on facades of perfection, Gen Z fawners have dubbed SZA "mother" for her blunt, sometimes-contradictory but always-gnawingly-honest lyrics set to lilting harmonies. Solána Rowe herself is no longer the second-guessing 20-something of Ctrl days, and her sophomore release, SOS, proves it by pulling no punches. She offsets a sanguine outlook on love ("Snooze") with odes to bloody revenge ("Kill Bill"), indie-pop angst ("Ghost in the Machine"), acoustic toxicity ("Nobody Gets Me") and bad bitch mood boosting ("Smoking on my Ex Pack") — every track is another jewel to her crown. Though SOS landed right at the end of 2022, SZA has bobbed and buoyed all 2023 with record-breaking sales, chart-dominating singles, an international arena tour and yet another wave of Grammy nominations. Altogether, this collection of melodic stunts brings a whole new meaning to the old adage of "Smooth seas never made a skilled sailor." —Sidney Madden
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    The Latin Dead, Eyes of the World
    The Latin Dead
    The Latin Dead
    Eyes of the World
    RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 14
    Nearly three decades after Jerry Garcia's death, interest in the Grateful Dead's songbook has never waned; in fact, it has only grown over time. Guitarist John Kadlecik, who comes from the post-Grateful Dead musical circle (Further, Dark Star Orchestra, Melvin Seals & JGB), teamed up with Oscar Hernández, a pianist/composer/arranger/producer and leader of Spanish Harlem Orchestra, for an innovative run through Dead's music that has been approached from all kinds of directions except this one. The Latin Dead's Eyes of the World is a collection of tightly arranged interpretations that reveal the nuances of melody and composition that sometimes gets taken for granted during long jams. For an Afro Caribbean music-loving Deadhead like me, this album is a dream come true. Bob Weir recently announced he would abandon the rock format to use a symphony orchestra to explore the band's music; in that light, The Latin Dead's approach adds another path on the long, strange trip that is the Grateful Dead. —Felix Contreras
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    Tianna Esperanza, Terror
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    Tianna Esperanza
    Terror
    RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 17
    Someone coming to Tianna Esperanza's music without knowing her story might think they've been transported through time. But the portal is unstable: Is this the croon of a cabaret singer in Weimar Berlin, all smoke and decadence? Or are we in one of the jazz clubs where Nina Simone staged her arched-eyebrow protests? At one point on Terror, her debut album, this young queer biracial woman raised in Cape Cod sings from the perspective of the Harlem bookstore owner Lewis Michaux, who was born in the last years of the 19th century, yet her "Lewis" has the patchouli scent of classic Erykah Badu. "Three Straight Bitches From Hell" somehow marries Gil Scott-Heron's flow with PJ Harvey's drive as Esperanza calls out the women who've broken her heart. The granddaughter of Paloma McLardy, drummer for The Raincoats and The Slits, Esperanza embraces the impiety that is her punk inheritance, but she also values the beauty of her burnished contralto and the funky lyricism she shares with her mentor, Valerie June. Like that Americana innovator, Esperanza reimagines the past in ways that feel almost futuristic — beyond categories, beyond eras. She makes her own space. —Ann Powers
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    Iris DeMent, Workin' on a World
    Songs of Iris
    Iris DeMent
    Workin' on a World
    RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 24
    Political awareness often begins at the kitchen table, in the living room, even at the family piano. With Workin' on a World, Iris DeMent — steward of one of the most treasured and timeless voices inhabiting our moment — brings disinformation-addled listeners back to such intimate realms. Her stepdaughter (and album co-producer) Pieta Brown encouraged DeMent to shape songs from her anxieties and hopes about the current mess of global crises; they headed to Nashville and gathered a band that does full justice to music with the warmth of folk, the reach of gospel and the homespun sagacity of classic country. DeMent counters spirited calls to action like "Warriors of Love" and critiques like "Let Me Be Your Jesus" with golden insights into the beauty and pain of our shared inescapable mortality. In the gemlike, Chekhov-inspired "The Cherry Orchard," DeMent looks across the span of her 62 years at young political idealists and warns them against ideologues — yet sends them forth, to fight despite the odds. "The train has pulled into the station," she sings about the passage of time and the need to act despite its toll. "Don your cape, don your shoes." —Ann Powers
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    Missy Mazzoli, Dark With Excessive Bright
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    Dark With Excessive Bright
    RELEASE DATE: MARCH 3
    The first album to showcase Missy Mazzoli's orchestral works proves that the composer, known for her operas and chamber pieces, is fluent in the art of creating lustrous symphonic scores. Her harmonies are fresh, often surprising and filled with color. In her Sinfonia, subtitled "For Orbiting Spheres," harmonicas in three different keys produce an ethereal chorus, a sound she describes as a "hurdy-gurdy flung recklessly into space." Dark with Excessive Bright, a concerto for violin and string orchestra, takes its title from a blind man's description of God in John Milton's Paradise Lost. The incongruity seems fitting for a 21st century piece inspired by centuries-old music that blends tenebrous strings with glistening, high-flying solos for violinist Peter Herresthal.
    Mazzoli claims to have a tolerance for mystery and the unknown, which is an apt context for These Worlds in Us, based partly on a poem about a lost WWII pilot. Armed with an opening wistful theme and wheezy melodicas, the piece thunders with drama and closes with quiet pulsating whiffs of Indonesian gamelan music. Mazzoli is presumably working on her Metropolitan Opera commission (due in 2025), but with symphonic works as dramatic as these, we don't need voices to tell the stories. —Tom Huizenga
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    Jordan Ward, FORWARD
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    FORWARD
    RELEASE DATE: MARCH 3
    The St. Louis-bred singer-songwriter's debut ebbs and flows beautifully between R&B and hip-hop, employing vintage synth sounds and creating a harmonious space for his church roots and his background as a dancer to emerge. The title pays homage to his family name and declares the album as a sonic catalyst — Jordan Ward and his executive producer, Lido, recruited some of the most creative up-and-comers like Gwen Bunn and Joyce Wrice to participate. While the storytelling is inherently autobiographical, playing out the moments and experiences that have shaped Ward, there's immense relatability. This album creates a safe space for evolving 20-somethings to be seen and affirmed, no matter where we are on our life journeys, and makes complex and intangible feelings more concrete enough to grasp. There are also moments of lightheartedness and childish fun, showing an artist who fights to keep his inner child alive. If this is the foreword in Ward's book, there's no doubt that I'm committed to seeing the rest of his story unfold. —Ashley Pointer
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    Fever Ray, Radical Romantics
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    Radical Romantics
    RELEASE DATE: MARCH 10
    The music that Karin Dreijer makes as Fever Ray has a sort of otherworldly charm. Like beings out of movies like Under the Skin and Annihilation, it can feel as if something alien and curious is trying to approximate human behavior — or, more accurately, trying to activate the emotional spectrum, to experience profound feeling and the change that sets in. Fittingly, Dreijer has said that Radical Romantics, the artist's unnervingly mutable third album, is about "finding out what it is to love." No stranger to donning costumes and playing personas, Dreijer contorts into many forms, navigating an oddball pop of buzzing and wobbly synths. But beneath its charades are senses stirred by the personal history of a private figure — gleeful fantasies of getting back at a child's bully, the last lingering touches of a pandemic relationship in crisis. The sum of its sensations is an album that is as earwormy as it is uncanny, and as empathetic as it is unreal. —Sheldon Pearce
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    10,000 gecs
    RELEASE DATE: MARCH 17
    The shopworn take on 100 gecs — that the hyperpop duo "sounds like the internet" — has always felt a little neat. Our modern internet presents largely as a lifestyle boutique, all rounded corners and yassified slogans; anything outmoded lives in back rooms on bottom shelves, and the default soundtrack is anonymous chillhop, playlist-ready and texture-free. Compare that atmosphere to "Doritos & Fritos," the sound of two friends playing stoner word games as they scroll every setting on an effects plugin, exchanging little-stinker grins. The difference is fun, a disarmingly pure kind that's retreated from online life since the Winamp and GeoCities salad days. 10,000 gecs is not an outright revivalist work, but it's born of genuine love for that messy moment near the turn of this century, when third-wave ska, seven-string rap metal, Myspace emo and Bushwick blog rock might have shared the same font size on a festival poster. The album's overture, a wholesale rip of the theater-rattling THX test sound that crash-lands into gender odyssey "Dumbest Girl Alive," puts its ethos in a nutshell: Like the best Hollywood blockbusters, what you're about to experience doesn't pretend to be high art, but rest assured it will matter. —Daoud Tyler-Ameen
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    Lankum, False Lankum
    Rough Trade
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    False Lankum
    RELEASE DATE: MARCH 24
    As you scroll through NPR Music's list of the 50 Best Albums of 2023, you might notice a dearth of something that once felt ubiquitous — the band. There are myriad potential explanations for that shortage, including "it's hard to split $0.005 four ways" and "you can't fit the drummer and the bassist in a 9x16 crop." The way we listen (and swipe) simply isn't conducive to four or five talented musicians sharing equitably in streaming's spoils ... which is what makes Ireland's Lankum feel like a gift from the pagan gods. Radie Peat, Cormac Mac Diarmada and the brothers Daragh and Ian Lynch have not only defied the odds of 2023; the foreboding foursome is on track to become one of the greatest groups of the 21st century. False Lankum, their third award-winning album since 2017, takes their A24 update of Irish traditional music to unprecedented (read: Radiohead) levels. Who needs rock when you have the philosopher's stone? —Otis Hart
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    JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown, SCARING THE HOES
    AWAL
    JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown
    SCARING THE HOES
    RELEASE DATE: MARCH 24
    Anarchy is not a word commonly associated with rap nowadays. Droning 808s and low-vibrational BPMs have long since lulled the genre into a sonic snoozefest of predictability. But JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown are this generation's patron saints for making rap noisy again. As solo artists, they've clearly been about that life for a decade apiece. Both serve as unwieldy experimentalists in a field where going against the norm provokes the kind of condemnation illustrated by the album's hyperbolic title, SCARING THE HOES.
    Yet this collaboration shouldn't work as well as it does. Pairing Danny Brown's frenetic, helium-pitched flows atop rapper/producer JPEG's high-octane, chaotic production style should clash like the titans. But they prove two weirdos are better than one, as they take sex, drugs and sacrilege to the head. "Fell on my knees when I caught a felony," Danny raps on the gospel sampling "HOE (Heaven On Earth)." "Tell me who there for me / Think I need therapy." The album's release was preceded exactly one week by Danny publicly announcing at SXSW his plans to go to rehab, but SCARING THE HOES feels like a sobering slap to a rap industry drowning in monotony. —Rodney Carmichael
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    boygenius, the record
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    RELEASE DATE: MARCH 31
    The term "polyfidelity" was coined at a commune in San Francisco called Kerista, where tight alliances formed under the name "best friend intimacy clusters." Contrary to rumors, the singer-songwriter trio of Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus is a professional collaboration, not a throuple. Yet the ecstatically beloved ensemble specializes in the thorniest aspects of best friend intimacy —
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    Liverpool Christmas tradition people will remember from childhood
    Liverpool Christmas tradition people will remember from childhood
    1
    COMMENTS
    I wound up a Chelsea legend and got elbowed in the face - so I know why rivals would be angry at Everton
    I wound up a Chelsea legend and got elbowed in the face - so I know why rivals would be angry at Everton
    4
    COMMENTS
    Man designs Christmas card that 'saves people money'
    Man designs Christmas card that 'saves people money'
    4
    COMMENTS
    I left Christmas clothes shopping for my boyfriend entirely in the hands of a stranger - and I'd happily do it again
    I left Christmas clothes shopping for my boyfriend entirely in the hands of a stranger - and I'd happily do it again
    11
    COMMENTS
    Marine AFC fans praised for 'classy' cost-of-living FC United of Manchester donation
    Marine AFC fans praised for 'classy' cost-of-living FC United of Manchester donation
    Schoolgirl determined to help after mum's heartbreaking words at foodbank
    Schoolgirl determined to help after mum's heartbreaking words at foodbank
    15
    COMMENTS
    Liverpool needs its nightlife to thrive but 'town has never been this bad'
    Liverpool needs its nightlife to thrive but 'town has never been this bad'
    97
    COMMENTS
    Christmas events for kids and families you can still book
    Christmas events for kids and families you can still book
    'Quirky' bar in 'cracking little area' offers old fashioned menu
    'Quirky' bar in 'cracking little area' offers old fashioned menu
    10
    COMMENTS
    EUROMILLIONS RESULTS LIVE: Winning numbers for Tuesday's £186m jackpot
    EUROMILLIONS RESULTS LIVE: Winning numbers for Tuesday's £186m jackpot
    138439845836
    Friday night pub quiz: Test your general knowledge with 20 challenging questions - December 8
    Friday night pub quiz: Test your general knowledge with 20 challenging questions - December 8
    ITV The Chase fans threaten to switch off after player's 'disgusting' move
    ITV The Chase fans threaten to switch off after player's 'disgusting' move
    138429476620
    Merseyside town where men are dying too young
    Merseyside town where men are dying too young
    9
    COMMENTS
    ITV The Chase's Bradley Walsh says 'I told you' as fans all ask 'why?'
    ITV The Chase's Bradley Walsh says 'I told you' as fans all ask 'why?'
    92690643257
    Need a helping hand? Meet the care at home company with Liverpool residents at its heart
    Need a helping hand? Meet the care at home company with Liverpool residents at its heart
    Lost Liverpool bar that was well known for its 'Mad Mondays'
    Lost Liverpool bar that was well known for its 'Mad Mondays'
    6
    COMMENTS
    Lotto RESULTS: Winning National Lottery numbers on Wednesday, December 13
    Lotto RESULTS: Winning National Lottery numbers on Wednesday, December 13
    Mum didn't like Christmas until a tragic diagnosis changed everything
    Mum didn't like Christmas until a tragic diagnosis changed everything
    6
    COMMENTS
    Lotto RESULTS: Winning National Lottery numbers on Saturday, December 9
    Lotto RESULTS: Winning National Lottery numbers on Saturday, December 9
    Sean Dyche gives verdict on Chelsea transfer spending after Everton points deduction
    Sean Dyche gives verdict on Chelsea transfer spending after Everton points deduction
    6
    COMMENTS
    Liverpool Christmas tradition people will remember from childhood
    Liverpool Christmas tradition people will remember from childhood
    1
    COMMENTS
    I wound up a Chelsea legend and got elbowed in the face - so I know why rivals would be angry at Everton
    I wound up a Chelsea legend and got elbowed in the face - so I know why rivals would be angry at Everton
    4
    COMMENTS
    Man designs Christmas card that 'saves people money'
    Man designs Christmas card that 'saves people money'
    4
    COMMENTS
    I left Christmas clothes shopping for my boyfriend entirely in the hands of a stranger - and I'd happily do it again
    I left Christmas clothes shopping for my boyfriend entirely in the hands of a stranger - and I'd happily do it again
    11
    COMMENTS
    Marine AFC fans praised for 'classy' cost-of-living FC United of Manchester donation
    Marine AFC fans praised for 'classy' cost-of-living FC United of Manchester donation
    Schoolgirl determined to help after mum's heartbreaking words at foodbank
    Schoolgirl determined to help after mum's heartbreaking words at foodbank
    15
    COMMENTS
    92690643377
    Liverpool needs its nightlife to thrive but 'town has never been this bad'
    Liverpool needs its nightlife to thrive but 'town has never been this bad'
    97
    COMMENTS
    Christmas events for kids and families you can still book
    Christmas events for kids and families you can still book
    'Quirky' bar in 'cracking little area' offers old fashioned menu
    'Quirky' bar in 'cracking little area' offers old fashioned menu
    10
    COMMENTS
    EUROMILLIONS RESULTS LIVE: Winning numbers for Tuesday's £186m jackpot
    EUROMILLIONS RESULTS LIVE: Winning numbers for Tuesday's £186m jackpot
    Friday night pub quiz: Test your general knowledge with 20 challenging questions - December 8
    Friday night pub quiz: Test your general knowledge with 20 challenging questions - December 8
    ITV The Chase fans threaten to switch off after player's 'disgusting' move
    ITV The Chase fans threaten to switch off after player's 'disgusting' move
    Merseyside town where men are dying too young
    Merseyside town where men are dying too young
    9
    COMMENTS
    ITV The Chase's Bradley Walsh says 'I told you' as fans all ask 'why?'
    ITV The Chase's Bradley Walsh says 'I told you' as fans all ask 'why?'
    Need a helping hand? Meet the care at home company with Liverpool residents at its heart
    Need a helping hand? Meet the care at home company with Liverpool residents at its heart
    Lost Liverpool bar that was well known for its 'Mad Mondays'
    Lost Liverpool bar that was well known for its 'Mad Mondays'
    6
    COMMENTS
    Lotto RESULTS: Winning National Lottery numbers on Wednesday, December 13
    Lotto RESULTS: Winning National Lottery numbers on Wednesday, December 13
    Mum didn't like Christmas until a tragic diagnosis changed everything
    Mum didn't like Christmas until a tragic diagnosis changed everything
    6
    COMMENTS
    Lotto RESULTS: Winning National Lottery numbers on Saturday, December 9
    Lotto RESULTS: Winning National Lottery numbers on Saturday, December 9
    Sean Dyche gives verdict on Chelsea transfer spending after Everton points deduction
    Sean Dyche gives verdict on Chelsea transfer spending after Everton points deduction
    6
    COMMENTS
    Liverpool Christmas tradition people will remember from childhood
    Liverpool Christmas tradition people will remember from childhood
    1
    COMMENTS
    I wound up a Chelsea legend and got elbowed in the face - so I know why rivals would be angry at Everton
    I wound up a Chelsea legend and got elbowed in the face - so I know why rivals would be angry at Everton
    4
    COMMENTS
    Man designs Christmas card that 'saves people money'
    Man designs Christmas card that 'saves people money'
    4
    COMMENTS
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    138437485146
    138437485146
    Don't forget to challenge your friends and family to see who can achieve the highest score.
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