Cantaloupe Music

12/07/2025

A big time Happy Birthday to fellow traveler and composer Matthew Shipp, whose solo album The Cosmic Piano is still garnering rave reviews as we close out the year!

The latest from Relix magazine's Jeff Tamarkin:

"Traversing multiple moods and sensitivities, Shipp juxtaposes the ethereal and the pastoral with the dark and uneasy, often within the same number. He flirts with the experimental, but never for its own sake. And when he veers away from the center, it's always because the music demands nothing less."

https://matthewshipp.bandcamp.com/album/the-cosmic-piano

11/16/2025

NOW STREAMING on all platforms: producer and multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington's psychedelic treatment of David Handler's "Solstice," originally released on his debut album Life Like Violence.

"Solstice (Dave Harrington Dub)" is a groove-based excursion into the low-end vibes of Jamaican-style dub music, highlighted by cavernous reverb washes, trippy delay effects, and a deep-space soundscape that conjures visions from the not-too-distant future.

The track is the third installment in Handler's digital suite Life Like Violence: The Remixes, which gathers some of his favorite artists to reimagine, rework, maul, chop, flip, and sample the collection of original works named in May by NPR as one of the week's best classical albums (May 16, 2025). Take a listen!

Listen to Solstice (Dave Harrington Dub) by David Handler, Dave Harrington, Ensemble LPR.

11/12/2025

Julia Wolfe's new piece "Liberty Bell," a co-commission with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as part of the PSO's America250 celebration, will premiere this Friday at Heinz Hall. She spoke with the Post-Gazette's Jeremy Reynolds for this feature, out today:

“Liberty Bell” is a clanging homage to an emblem of Wolfe's home city, an unabashedly loud, chaotic scramble that “fits together like pieces of a puzzle,” she said, adding that she had intended to represent some of the messy chaos of democracy in the work’s tumult.

“I’m very into groove, and cross rhythms and syncopations,” she said. “I'd say there’s kind of a very driving rhythm in a lot of these works, and that is more American than European.”

Quite a few composers are writing quite a lot of music about the America 250 anniversary. Some of them a bit grudgingly. “How do we want to mark...

11/04/2025

THIS FRIDAY (Nov 7) at Roulette in Brooklyn: Be sure to catch the return of Ghost Train Orchestra as they premiere their brand new project CITIES, featuring original music written by the group and inspired by cities around the world. The show features a large-scale production of a music travelogue, with bold new compositions evoking a sense of place, culture, and mood with accompanying visuals.

As an extra added bonus, vinyl copies of 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙮𝙢𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙤𝙛 𝙈𝙤𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙜 (released in 2023 on Cantaloupe) and Ghost Train's new collaboration with David Byrne (𝙒𝙝𝙤 𝙄𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙠𝙮?, recently released on Matador Records) will be on-site and available for sale!

Brooklyn based large ensemble of vanguard musicians premieres new compositions inspired by cities around the world.

10/17/2025

OUT TODAY: Get your ears on ART DECADE, the latest collaboration from Evan Ziporyn and ContaQt, now streaming on all platforms!

More than just a tribute to the art rock and ambient era ushered in by David Bowie, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and Harold Budd, this is a gorgeous — and duly rambunctious — new recording that seeks to ensure “...these groundbreaking works remain a vibrant, celebrated part of the musical repertoire, retaining their punkish sense of gleeful adventure.”

Listen to Art Decade by Evan Ziporyn, ContaQt.

10/10/2025

Happening TONIGHT in the Paul Davenport Theatre at Western University: don't miss Evan Ziporyn and ContaQt as they present music from their forthcoming CD 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝘿𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙙𝙚, out October 17!

Admission is FREE, and the performance starts at 8pm sharp.

Conductor/composer/clarinetist Evan Ziporyn and ContaQt are joined by Contemporary Music Studio with works by Evan Ziporyn, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, David Bowie and Howard Budd

10/02/2025

CHICAGO fans: Don't miss the Matthew Shipp Trio at Constellation Chicago tomorrow night — and while you're at it, pick up a copy of Matt's latest solo album 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗼 at Dusty Groove online or in person at 1120 N. Ashland Avenue. You'll be glad you did!

Matthew Shipp’s transcendental course hasn't wavered since the New York–based pianist began recording his first album nearly 38 years ago.

09/11/2025

Last night we had a blast rocking it with So Percussion, who played for a packed house at (le) poisson rouge in downtown NYC.

Keep an eye out tomorrow for Dan Trueman's "Machines for Listening with So," dropping on all digital platforms — and brace yourself for the official release of So's 𝟮𝟱𝘅𝟮𝟱 𝗯𝗼𝘅 𝘀𝗲𝘁, out September 26!

https://sopercussion.bandcamp.com/album/25x25

09/10/2025

TONIGHT at (le) poisson rouge in NYC: Join us and So Percussion for the exclusive release concert celebrating their epic 8-disc box set 25x25, out officially on Sept 26. Advance copies will be on-site for sale!

Details:

While we can’t play all 500 minutes from the record, we’ll dig deep with shorter works by Eric and Jason, Vijay Iyer, Olivier Tarpaga and a world premiere...

09/05/2025

ICYMI: Now streaming on all platforms, check out Kid Koala's haunting, atmospheric remix of David Handler's "Sunbled Sky" — an unexpectedly Lynchian take from one of hip-hop's most beloved creators, on the decks this fall with Deltron 3030!

Listen to Sunbled Sky (Kid Koala Remix) by David Handler, Kid Koala.

09/05/2025

So pleased and honored to be involved with this amazing project! If you’re a fan of the art rock and ambient oeuvre of David Bowie, Harold Budd, Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, this one is for you.

https://contaqtnewmusic.bandcamp.com/album/art-decade

At long last and in time for today's Bandcamp Friday, our new album with Evan Ziporyn, "Art Decade" is available for preorder via Cantaloupe Music!

https://contaqtnewmusic.bandcamp.com/album/art-decade

The album is a wide-ranging collaboration that unites composer, producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Evan Ziporyn with Toronto’s renowned ContaQt ensemble, led by percussionist Jerry Pergolesi. Featuring all-new interpretations of classics from the early ’70s psych-prog output of King Crimson, Bowie’s “Berlin trilogy,” and Eno’s Ambient 1-4 series, Art Decade is more than just a tribute album.

“Our goal is not to ‘elevate’ or legitimize this music,” Ziporyn and Pergolesi reveal in the album’s liner notes. “Its towering artistic achievement and profound influence on an entire generation is self-evident. Instead, by revisiting and inhabiting these groundbreaking works, we hope to ensure they remain a vibrant, celebrated part of the musical repertoire, retaining their punkish sense of gleeful adventure as they continue to subvert expectations and venture into uncharted territory.”

“‘Larks’ Tongues In Aspic, Part Two’ is a triumph... ‘Red’ also, with the strings ripping away and conveying the spirit of the piece — they stomp things along and convey a wonderful manic quality... The world may or may not be in a better place, but it feels like it is.” - Robert Fripp

First single "Red" is available on Bandcamp now and will be on all streaming platforms beginning Sept. 19!