In a Circle Records

03/20/2024

This coming May is Layale Chaker month! The 2 new album releases on In a Circle Records coincide with the 2024 Spoleto Festival USA's world premiere of Layale’s debut full-length chamber opera “Ruinous Gods”.

"Radio Afloat", the follow-up to Layale's chamber jazz quintet (Jake Charkey, Phillip Golub, Sam Minaie, John Hadfield) Sarafand’s celebrated debut album "Inner Rhyme", is now available for pre-order.

https://layalechaker.bandcamp.com/album/radio-afloat-icr031

03/20/2024

This coming May is Layale Chaker month! The 2 new album releases on In a Circle Records coincide with the 2024 Spoleto Festival USA's world premiere of Layale’s debut full-length chamber opera “Ruinous Gods”.

Pre-order "Vigil", her collaboration with ETHEL is now live.

https://ethelcentral.bandcamp.com/album/vigil-icr030

01/17/2022

Now available for pre-order on Bandcamp.

https://danalynmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-point-on-a-slow-curve

In a Circle Records is proud to present composer-violinist Dana Lyn’s new album “A Point on a Slow Curve”, a nine-movement sonic poem that mirrors the creation story of Bay Area artist Jay DeFeo’s monumental painting The Rose. Scored for female choir, violin, clarinet, cello, bassoon, vibraphone, bass, and drums, Lyn sculpts a narrative that is at times gracefully austere, at times rumbling and explosive, and always unapologetically melodic; hers is a post-genre compositional voice that collages her practices in multiple genres of music as well as visual art and theater.

Patricia Brennan - vibraphone
Noel Brennan - drums
Danielle Buonaiuto - soprano
Madeline Heale - soprano
Catherine Hedberg - alto
Dana Lyn - violin
Mike McGinnis - clarinet, bass clarinet
Elizabeth Merrill - alto
Hank Roberts - cello
Sara Schoenbeck - bassoon
Gary Wang - bass

05/22/2021

Thanks to for featuring "Hoyt-Schermerhorn" by Christopher Cerrone on their New Music Friday Spotify Playlist.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6lPqHhFnAXJFKBsc0g2vNC?si=-Q9LawZgTnqdf7ptZChJEg&utm_source=copy-link

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05/21/2021

New Release Alert! "The Arching Path" by Christopher Cerrone is out tomorrow! Featuring stunning performances by Timo Andres , Lindsay Kesselman, Ian Rosenbaum, Mingzhe Wang and Chris himself, this is the album you need right now. "The Arching Path" has been garnering some fabulous advance press - see links below, and get your copy on Bandcamp!

https://cerrone.bandcamp.com/album/the-arching-path

WNYC New Sounds - Episode 4498

https://www.newsounds.org/story/4498-music-piano

Textura - "Sensitivity to timbre, melodic gifts, and command of compositional form."

https://www.textura.org/archives/c/cerrone_archingpath.htm

Kevin McBrien - "Deep literary sensibility, as well as a fascination with place, memory, sound, and silence. Simply put, it’s amazing stuff."

https://kevinmcbrien.com/2021/05/04/the-arching-path/

03/26/2021

Today is the day! We are so excited about this album - the music is just gorgeous and everyone who worked on it is a true mensch. Shanir Blumenkranz, David Cieri , Jeremy de Jesus, Gonzalo Grau & La Clave Secreta, Christopher Kornmann, Mathias Kunzli, Carlos Mora, Michael Nicolas, Gyan Riley, Alex Venguer, Oscar Zambrano and Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin - sending you each a giant virtual hug. Ken Burns & Lynn Novick's film premieres on PBS April 5-7.

9 track album

03/21/2021

Happy birthday, JS Bach!

Recorded on October 30th, 2020 at Oktaven Studio, Mount Vernon NYRecording engineer: Ryan StreberVideo Editor: Michael NicolasBig thanks to Robert Cassidy an...

03/12/2021

Fabulous review of Wu Man and Kojiro Umezaki's "Flow"! "A 30 minute listen that you'll want to revisit again and again."

Flow In A Circle, 2021 8/10 Listen to Flow A fascinating duo comprised of a world renowned p**a player (Wu Man) and a shakuhachi specialist (Kojiro Umezaki), together the pair touch on folk songs, modern ex*****on and a very precise balance between the ancient Chinese and Japanese in

03/11/2021

Fabulous SupChinaa article about Wu Man and Kojiro Umezaki's album, "Flow", out on In a Circle Records now.

Wu Man and Kojiro Umezaki have created a five-track album that is at once contemplative and dynamic, fusing classical East Asian music for contemporary and stylish listeners.

03/06/2021

Beautiful interview with Wu Man and Kojiro Umezaki about their new album, "Flow" in the China Daily!

P**a virtuoso Wu Man has made a new album with shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) performer Kojiro Umezaki. The album, titled Flow, was released on Feb 19.