Alynda Segarra's unamplifed voice in this Tiny Desk performance had no problem rising above the drums, congas, cello, violin, bass, keyboards, and an electric guitar. The passion for her Puerto Rican ...

The drumming cellist is not as common a species as perhaps it should be, judging by Zabučale Gore (The Mountains Roared), the third full-length album by multi-instrumentalist Kristijan Krajnčan. The ...

When you think of improvisation in music, you probably think of saxophone lines sailing through the smoke of a jazz club, not cello riffs frilling up a piece by Bach. But Bach was a man of his times, ...

Tentative percussion and cello scrapings introduced a lengthy suite like piece featuring composed sections read from scores with freer extemporisations. Brown embellished the opening theme with ...

Sunday night’s concert by the San Jose Chamber Orchestra ended with three composers taking bows on stage before a cheering audience at Le Petit Trianon. It was a love fest for living music, and the ...

Linnea Olsson shares her own thoughts on every track of her new EP For Show, including the home-made stop-motion videos that accompany them. Overwhelmingly inspired by PJ Harvey, Olsson's brand of ...

"Chasm" is a dulcet piece, inlaid in gentle swivels­­ reminiscent of a childhood lullaby. The recording travels into the balladry pulse of the cello in "Water Tom," haloed by an Oriental accent in the ...