Cantaloupe Music

08/06/2026

Check out Rebekah Heller’s Cantaloupe debut Righteous Rage, covered in this month’s Best Contemporary Classical music on Bandcamp:

“Rebekah Heller has consistently laid out new possibilities for the bassoon,” Peter Margasak writes. We couldn’t agree more 🎶

Our guide to the month’s crucial contemporary classical releases.

07/31/2026

NOW STREAMING: We are live today with “Cliff Light,” the first movement from Meredith Monk’s only stand-alone string quartet Stringsongs, and the leadoff single from Phaedra Ensemble’s 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙢𝙨, a journey to the beating heart of Monk’s instrumental music.

Album available 9/18. You've been warned 🎶

Listen to Stringsongs: I. Cliff Light by Meredith Monk, Phaedra Ensemble.

07/10/2026

OUT TODAY: the title single from Rebekah Heller's forthcoming Cantaloupe debut RIGHTEOUS RAGE!

Composed by Brittany J. Green and scored for eight bassoons, the fiery mood that propels 'Righteous Rage' emerged from Green's incisive observations of the world around us, in all its contradictions and injustices. "When I lay up at night thinking about these things," she says in the album's liner notes, "the work that must be done, and the oppressive resistance all around us, it angers me. This piece is a reflection of that rage.”

Take a listen today on all platforms, and preorder the CD:

Listen to Righteous Rage by Rebekah Heller.

06/17/2026

ICYMI: Don't sleep on Michael Gordon's wide-scope epic FIELD OF VISION — an hour-long recording that features the University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble under the musical direction of producer Doug Perkins.

Meant to induce a quasi-meditative, almost ecstatic state for performer and audience alike, Gordon describes the piece as "an exploration of space itself. It's where attention sharpens and dissolves, and thoughts focus and drift. And who can tune space? The answer becomes collective: the performers, the instruments, the listeners."

Cover art by Katie Merz https://www.katiemerz.com/

https://lnk.to/Field-of-Vision

Listen to Field of Vision by Michael Gordon, University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble, Doug Perkins.

05/20/2026

This Friday on all platforms, look for David Handler's Life Like Violence: Remixes — a digital-only compilation that collects all the previously released sonic excursions by Kid Koala, Half Waif, Dave Harrington and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and adds a brand new remix from Ninja Tune's own Romare, who lends his distinctively funky, breakbeat-driven flair to the title cut, "Life Like Violence."

We think you'll like it! https://www.david-handler.com/

05/06/2026

Once again, our heartfelt thanks to everyone who came out. See you next year! 🙏

05/02/2026

Look out everybody 👀

Listen to Field of Vision (Side A) by Michael Gordon, Doug Perkins, University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble.

05/01/2026

Brooklyn! Tomorrow (Saturday) at 4pm, don’t miss Matthew Shipp’s solo set at the Theatre for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place in Fort Greene, as part of Bang on a Can’s annual Long Play festival.

Matt’s CD The Cosmic Piano will be on sale at the show and all weekend at BRIC Arts on Fulton. Check us out!

📸 Peter Gannushkin

https://bangonacan.org/long-play-2026/ -2026-05-02

04/21/2026

Farewell to an amazingly gifted composer, fellow traveler and wide-open spirit. We'll always be grateful for his generosity, his imagination and his music. 🎶🙏

04/04/2026

Be sure to tap into Spotify's New Ambient playlist, where Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's otherworldly remix of David Handler's "Ever After" is making waves!

Listen here and buy David's album Life Like Violence: https://lnk.to/EverAfter_KAS

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX9c7yCloFHHL

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