New music, you say?

Is this ‘classical’ music? It’s played by a string quartet (Ligeti Quartet), and it’s certainly new (the album was released on Friday 14^th April, with the works written by Anna Meredith). But this track is live performed with electronics. What we think is – well, we don’t really mind. Does the label it’s given affect how you would listen? Or whether you would listen at all? Give it a go...

Next up, is Ahmad Jamal, who died on 16^th April 2023, at what we might agree is a ripe old age of 92, still playing. Here he is in 2017 – playing a jazz ‘standard’ but still finding new ways to play, even after a lifetime:

Have you heard of HyperPop? We hadn’t either... it is an ‘exaggerated' take on popular music – complex, deliberately ‘glitchy’ and trying quite hard to be slightly weird. Here’s a classic of the genre from 2018, though be warned, the official video has strobe effects and is a little unnerving. We've linked to the audio on YouTube, but the official video can also be found on Sophie's channel.