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Also on the album: new works by @eyesack.bsky.social and Alex Dowling.

Cover art by Friction Quartet’s Otis Harriel!

Proper Nostalgia, by Friction Quartet 16 track album

Just in time for Bandcamp Friday!

Friction Quartet’s “Proper Nostalgia” is available for pre-sale: frictionquartet.bandcamp.com/album/proper...

Features “Proper Nostalgia” by @andrewkrycek.bsky.social! Listen to a track written by Michi Wiancko now!

Newly commissioned choral works: compositions and poetry from Jasmine Barnes, Kenji Bunch, Cecille Elliott, Damien Geter, Darrell Grant, Joe Kye, Judy A. Rose, Mari Esabel Valverde, Sonya Renee Taylor, Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, and James DePreist, among others.

Background: green leaves on white background. Foreground: Safe Harbor album cover. Logos for Bandcamp, Apple Music, and Tidal.

Out today: "Safe Harbor" by Resonance Ensemble

12 World-Premiere Recordings Explore Sanctuary, Resilience, and Hope.

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From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

outline drawing of robotic donut on graph paper with purple background and grey lines. Front view of robot.

outline drawing of robotic donut on graph paper with purple background and grey lines. Rear view of robot.

Music is just as awesome as the illustration: posthasteduo.bandcamp.com/album/donut-...

Album artwork for "Donut Robot!" by Post-Haste Reed Duo. Shows the front and back panel of the CD packaging. Both panels show a round metallic robot shaped like a donut with robot arms and legs destroying a city. Donut robot has a pink frosting with sprinkles on the front.

Let's take a break from reality for a bit and appreciate this whimsical artwork for one of our previous releases:
"Donut Robot!" by Post-Haste Reed Duo with illustrations by Adam T. Davis.

Fanfare Magazine reviews "Cycles of Resistance" — Aerocade Music This article originally appeared in Issue 49:3 (Jan/Feb 2026) of Fanfare Magazine. It’s too bad (to say the least) that we are at a point in American history at which this CD needed to be made as ...

write and perform such music, but as long as it is, it is good to have artists as strong and full of integrity as Chelsea Hollow, and also the composers and writers represented on this CD, who are able to do it.

-Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare Magazine

Read the rest: aerocademusic.com/news/2025/11...

The music and the texts do not seek to entertain, but to educate, raise awareness, and inspire. As I mentioned at the beginning, one wishes that it were no longer necessary, such as in the America that Valarie Kaur dreams of, to

Photo of soprano Chelsea Hollow on dark green background. Text: Cycles of Resistance is not easy listening, in the sense that it forces the listener to confront unpleasant truths about the state of our state. The music and the texts do not seek to entertain, but to educate, raise awareness, and inspire. As I mentioned at the beginning, one wishes that it were no longer necessary, such as in the America that Valarie Kaur dreams of, to write and perform such music, but as long as it is, it is good to have artists as strong and full of integrity as Chelsea Hollow, and also the composers and writers represented on this CD, who are able to do it. Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare Magazine

Excerpt of a new review for Soprano Chelsea Hollow’s debut album:

“Cycles of Resistance is not easy listening, in the sense that it forces the listener to confront unpleasant truths about the state of our state.

Huge thanks @ Sofía & @amanda-cook.bsky.social @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social for an amazing review of @nlbenavides.bsky.social's beautiful album, Canto Caló! #FrictionQuartet #MelindaMartinezBecker @aerocade.bandcamp.com
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Composer writes a love letter to New Mexico Nicolás Lell Benavides has released an album titled Canto Caló. It’s a two part work in Spanish and accompanied by a four string quartet that he calls a love letter to New Mexico and his heritage. He ...

Check out this interview with Nicolás Lell Benavides about his album, “Canto Caló”:

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Music reviews- Take Effect The Audacity Aerocade, 2025 9/10 Listen to The Audacity The inimitable multi-instrumentalist Meerenai Shim returns with her 4th album and 10 years after her last solo release, which has her pla...

First official review for "The Audacity"!

"A sonically engaging effort, the modern recording techniques illuminates Shim’s superb playing and atypical vision that we can all appreciate." - Take Effect

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“Unleash the Thong Song” may be the greatest text ever rendered in a button

Canto Caló by Nicolas Lell Benavides, Friction Quartet & Melinda Martinez Becker on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 9 Songs

Canto Caló: a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and string quartet featuring Melinda Martinez Becker.
El Correcaminos: string quartet written for the Friction Quartet. music.apple.com/us/album/can...

Out today: "Canto Caló" by Nicolás Lell Benavides. With two major works exploring New Mexican identity, ancestral memories of grandparents, and how those live and breathe within us, cultural connections over generations and what is lost and gained when we revisit our roots:

Text on orange background: "Bandcamp listening party. Canto Caló. Music by Nicolás Lell Benavides, featuring Friction Quartet, and Melinda Martinez Becker. 10/10, 8pm" Image of album cover for Canto Caló: old black and white photo of a man and his daughter in front of a 1950s car.

Join us this Friday (Oct 10) to celebrate the release of "Canto Caló" by composer Nicolás Lell Benavides. We will be having a virtual listening party on Bandcamp at 8pm, Pacific!
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Photo of "The Audacity" CD and cd packaging on dark wooden background.

And ICYMI, @meerenai.bandcamp.com's recent release: "The Audacity" with liner notes by @garrt.bsky.social!
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Photo of "Canto Caló" CD packaging, CD, and booklet on dark wooden background.

Our favorite holiday is here: BANDCAMP FRIDAY! 🎉
Pre-order our next release: "Canto Caló" by composer Nicolás Lell Benavides, Friction Quartet, and mezzo-soprano Melinda Martinez Becker!
(RSVP for the virtual listening party too while you're there!)
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If you’d like to be absolutely mesmerized for 30-ish seconds (and surely you do) – have a listen. Congratulations @meerenai.bandcamp.com & @ebakermusic.bsky.social.

7:30pm: #C4NM presents the release show for The Audacity by stellar flutist @meerenai.bandcamp.com @aerocade.bandcamp.com! @stevereich.bsky.social @megwilhoite.bsky.social The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker #BrentMiller Janice Misurell-Mitchell #CarlAlexander
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Your notes are superb! Thank you!!

I really like this album, but I'm biased because I got to listen to it early...because I wrote the liner notes!!!

Support @meerenai.bandcamp.com's awesome music making and check out 'The Audacity'!

Photo of The Audacity compact disc coming out of the CD sleeve.

It’s Bandcamp Friday! And we have a new release: “The Audacity” by @meerenai.bandcamp.com.

Includes: “Vermont Counterpoint” by Steve Reich and newly commissioned works from @ebakermusic.bsky.social, Brent Miller, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, and @megwilhoite.bsky.social!

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You can for a little while! 😊

Sound Meets Sound: Ep. 25 - Meerenai Shim's The Audacity Ten years since her last solo album, trail-blazing flutist releases her fourth. combines virtuosic flute performances and modern record production techniques in a delightful sonic package. Anchored ...

My interview with @meerenai.bandcamp.com is now live!! We talk about her new album, which is being released on September 5th! Preorder it now! (link in show notes)
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L.A. classical station KUSC slashes staff after federal funding cuts to public radio The USC-owned station, known as Classical California, lost $1.1 million that was previously allocated by the Corp. for Public Broadcasting.

Yup. Yesterday was horrible.

Andrew Rodriguez and Meerenai Shim in front of a tv screen that says “Skywalker Sound” and a Neve console.

Just chillin’ with @andrewkrycek.bsky.social at Skywalker Sound for Friction Quartet’s sessions. Tracking works by Michi Wiancko and Alex Dowling today!

Friction quartet musicians playing together, sitting in a semicircle inside Tiny Telephone studio in Oakland, California with music stands in front of them. Maroon baffles in between each musician for better sound isolation.

Friction Quartet members sitting in a semicircle warming up to record at Skywalker Sound studio in Lucas Valley, California. Sound diffusion panels are placed behind the musicians and microphones are all over the place.

Friction quartet members listening to a recent take with composer Andrew Rodriguez in front of the control board at Skywalker Sound.

Behind the scenes! Friction Quartet tracking music for their Aerocade release at Skywalker Sound and Tiny Telephone.

Very special thanks @tylerkline.bsky.social @wusf.org's Modern Notebook for featuring composer Marie A. Douglas's Tray from Chamber Winds of South Dakota's Moxie on @aerocade.bandcamp.com. Dedicated to #TrayvonMartin. #BlackLivesMatter
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