JAMES NEWTON - "Flute Music" LPJames Newton Flute Music LP (Morning Trip, 2022) "When it comes to showing whats possible with the flute, it doesnt get any better than James Newton. His playing is otherworldly. His compositions become these lush sonic valleys that rise from nothing organically, infused with a pointed whimsy As a composer, he creates beautiful, whimsical worlds that drift and change direction like a river cutting through the land over millennia. Like the gradual

sons of nature

The resulting 12'' EP

but a future that we can hope to desire

These have crossed several seas

spiraling into an invisible event horizon

This is an album chock full of ideas

so the genius lies in how Elian keeps the breaks dynamic

unseen photos and fliers

giving the album a sense of scope and breadth far beyond most contemporary punk records

or perhaps that music is a cloud of dissonance

Smith College Museum of Art

will learn to inherit