Cantaloupe Music

04/09/2025

THIS SUNDAY (Sept 7) at The Ford in LA: Join us for TERRY RILEY's 90th birthday tribute with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Gyan Riley and special guests!

TICKETS: https://my.theford.com/en/syos2/performance/11254

02/09/2025

Props to the Big Ears Festival team 🙏🎶

12 track album

27/08/2025

TONIGHT at 11PM on John Schaefer's New Sounds: composer Jeffrey Brooks signs on to discuss his latest Cantaloupe release The Memory Palace, featuring the spooky and mysterious Stein-o-caster!

Many thanks to John and his team at WNYC for making this one happen 🙏

Minneapolis-based composer Jeffrey Brooks (a longtime associate of new music champions Bang On A Can) presents new aural atmospherics involving the Stein-o-caster from his latest album.

05/08/2025

Be sure to check out Tom Huizenga's in-depth and insightful interview with Zibuokle Martinaityte for NPR Music — and then get your ears on 𝗛𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝗭𝗼𝗻𝗲, recorded with Synaesthesis and released on Cantaloupe in 2023 🎶

https://synaesthesis.bandcamp.com/album/hadal-zone
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5443654/zibuokle-martinaityte-composer-interview

The Lithuanian composer, now based in New York, creates layered, deliberate music that she hopes will grant listeners the freedom to enter an altered state of mind.

01/08/2025

LOUD Weekend is underway at MASS MoCA 🎶

01/08/2025

Here's another in-depth and wide-ranging interview with composer and pianist Matthew Shipp for Perfect Sound Forever. Money quote (one of many):

"You're always having to get up and recreate yourself every day. Recreate the whole thing and start from scratch almost, no matter what you have done. But at least I knew that getting in. And that also gives it part of its challenge, to get your message out there regardless of the block that seems to be in society to do it. Just get your message out there somehow. That's actually kept me going."

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙨𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙋𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙤 is available now on CD (please visit our Bandcamp store) and streaming everywhere.

Matthew Shipp- interview, forget the Andre 3000 controversy, the great pianist has a new album out

01/08/2025

It's Bandcamp Friday, and we have a new album out today: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲, featuring the debut of the Stein-o-caster (composer Jeffrey Brooks's version of prepared piano, wired for electronics and signal processing).

If you happen to be at MASS MoCA over the next two days for Bang on a Can's LOUD Weekend festival, come find us at the gift shop! https://jeffreybrooks.bandcamp.com/album/the-memory-palace

08/07/2025

Here's a lively convo with Matthew Shipp and Mel Minter for Mel's Musically Speaking blog; they cover Glenn Gould, John Coltrane, Alexander Scriabin and everyone in between.

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

https://www.melminter.com/2025/07/06/a-fresh-communique-from-planet-shipp/ -7284

Matthew Shipp. Photo by Anna Yatskevich. My plan was to post three or four more short album reviews to lower the must-listen pile a little, as I did in the previous post. One of those albums was to…

27/06/2025

We’re so excited to be making more history with So Percussion! Let’s go for another 25 🎶

25/06/2025

So happy for this! 🙌🙏🎶

25/06/2025

Outstanding to hear Matthew Shipp's The Cosmic Piano mentioned on NPR Music's New Music Friday this past week (scroll ahead to 39:10 to hear Stephen Thompson's thoughtful review):

"Last month, the inventive jazz pianist Matthew Shipp made headlines when he posted a rant to Facebook that slammed André 3000's new recording of piano instrumentals. In the process, he wrote about the craft of improvisational piano, the work that goes into it, and that essay triggered a lot of conversations about whose music attracts attention from listeners — and more to the point, the press, including NPR.

"Now, perfect timing, Shipp has a new album of solo piano pieces. It's dense and enveloping, and an ideal soundtrack to what Shipp was just writing about last month. It's called The Cosmic Piano."

Haim leaves it all behind. Hotline TNT turns it up to 11. Yaya Bey threatens fear with a good time. World Cafe host Raina Douris joins Stephen Thompson to discuss their favorite albums out today.

20/06/2025

Ron Hart goes in-depth with Matthew Shipp for the Village Voice about The Cosmic Piano and plenty more. New album is out today!

The Village Voice sits down with jazz pianist Matthew Shipp to discuss Andre 3000's bad music, Rothko's great paintings, and much in between.