Notes

111MHz: ‘Bonneville Park 4.’ Here we go in a contemporary classical direction with Devin Maxwell’s Timebending—with Christine Tavolacci, Eric Km Clark, and Katie Porter—and please be sure to take that album title seriously! Time bending is exactly what Maxwell, the composer, is doing. He features violins that seem focused on a harsh drone and then adds stressed-out flutes to the mix. The percussion underneath seems like a wink. And the layering, repetition, and gentle manipulations of these elements all come together—in a transcendent maelstrom.

—Brendan Hasenstab