Heather Trost has made herself heard both inside and outside the music scene in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she lives—in recent years her violin has appeared on recordings by Beirut, Josephine Foster, Claire Cronin, and Thor Harris, among others. She remains best known as half of the wonderful A Hawk and a Hacksaw, a Roma-inspired duo with her husband, Jeremy Barnes, but her first solo album, Agistri (LM Duplication), which dropped earlier this year, couldn’t sound much more different than those raucous Eastern European sounds.
Jakob Bro, Streams (ECM) Robin Hayward, States of Rushing (Choose) Stephen Clarke, Giacinto Scelsi: The Piano Works 2 (Mode) Fredrik Nordström, String (Moserobie) L’Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes, L’Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes (Kindred Spirits/Mali Kunkan)
