Molly Joyce ‘State Change’
State Change is the 2025 album from composer and performer Molly Joyce. Blending influences ranging from the 20th century modernist lineage to the spectral drones of Andy Stott, Missy Mazzoli, and Nico Muhly, State Change draws unflinchingly from the medical record of a childhood trauma for seven electro-acoustic tone poems — stark and oppressive in its medical aesthetic, yet ultimately cathartic and healing. Joyce crafted the album with Grammy-winning producer William Brittelle largely at Figure 8 Studios with engineer Michael Hammond.
Nick Zoulek ‘Enter Branch’
In Enter Branch, saxophonist, composer, and multidisciplinary artist Nick Zoulek delivers a deeply immersive, genre-defying album that explores growth, transformation, and reflection, with sounds rippling, refracting, and breaking open in every sense. Through nine expansive tracks, Zoulek crafts a narrative of perspective and renewal, fusing the raw, physical expressiveness of his saxophone playing with experimental production and visionary collaborations.
Ellis Ludwig-Leone ‘Past Life/Lifeline’
“Past Life,” a delicate interplay of harp and viola performed by Meijer and Sirota; and “Lifeline,” a vibrant percussion quartet for Sandbox Percussion. Mirroring each other in themes and construction, the two works are a reflection on the spaces we inhabit, in both a literal and a musical sense, and how memory can have an impact on our perception of those spaces over time. The collection of contemporary chamber works features a distinguished ensemble of performers—Dutch Music Prize-winning harpist Lavinia Meijer, violist Nadia Sirota (yMusic), GRAMMY®-nominated percussion quartet Sandbox Percussion, and soprano Eliza Bagg (Roomful of Teeth).