Moore's Misfit Toys has been in the works for the last decade. Mining '70s AM radio for hits and B-sides from artists, the album spins daringly deconstructed arrangements that perform a tightrope walk back and forth from virtuosic to campy. Robert Paredes passed away shortly after his work on the project was completed.

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the NYFA's Fellowship Program which has over the past three decades awarded unrestricted cash grants to over 4,400 artists in the New York state area, this second volume features ten tracks composed by the 2013 class of Music and Sound Fellows and collectively represents the staggering bounty of the best of vanguard New York based new music, avant jazz, experimental composers and performers.

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• Pianist Mary Kathleen Ernst’s Keeping Time CD features a range of women composer's works written over a span of twenty years. The styles on display are wide-ranging, encompassing jazz, neo-classical, post-modern and serial. Ernst has served on the faculties of the University of Virginia and Shepherd University. Her awards include a top prize in Spain’s Jose Iturbi International Piano Competition.

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Some say that an artist’s output is necessarily autobiographical. This set of three substantial works by Philip Blackburn does nothing to disprove that; they have his visionary DNA all over them. They show his deep concern for space, people, and ideas discovering each other through sounding and listening in the moment of performance. From a city-wide organized industrial soundscape to a virtuoso Cambridge choir, from a brainwave-generated laptop solo to Ellen Fullman’s 80-foot long string instrument with cloistered nuns blowing on organ pipes, these live events are as audacious as they are unrepeatable: Community-based experimental music at its most raw and refined, fun and profound. After producing nearly 400 albums for the innova label, this is the first disc devoted to Blackburn’s own music. His work as an environmental sound artist has made plants, sewer-, and eco-systems audible, and has animated harbors, science museums, children’s festivals, parks, parking lots, and deserts with extra opportunities for community listening.

The solo vocal music catalogue of Libby Larsen has become a substantial staple in the American Song repertoire. As a feminist and advocate for women in the Arts, this album celebrates some of Larsen's most beloved song cycles in which women poets and characters are the central figures. Larsen has always gravitated towards the stories of strong women: hardship-enduring women like Cather's Antonia, gender-role defying women like Calamity Jane, and the ill-fated wives of Henry the VIII, Larsen lifts up the virtues and highlights the universal struggles of women throughout history. This collection of four song cycles span more than twenty years of Larsen's compositional output. From her earliest studies in the art of text setting in Cowboy Songs, to the vivid musical landscapes of My Antonia, to the bleak last days of the Queens, Larsen utilizes musical texture, rhythm and melody in a way that unleashes the ''theater of the mind'' for the listener. With a musically dramatic flair, Larsen chooses to tell relatable stories through arcing melodic lines over a distinctly modern, but traditional harmonic language. Imagery and mood are strong in these works: from the bucking horse brought to life through the piano in ''Bucking Bronco,'' to the slow, spacious texture and utilization of the blues scale in ''Lift Me Into Heaven Slowly,'' to the interweaving of the American cowboy song ''Goodbye, Old Paint'' in ''Billy the Kid,'' larsen's writing creates vivid characters and images of the Old West. Calamity Jane's letters to her daughter resonated with Larsen on many levels: the challenges faced by working women, the honesty of the mother-daughter relationship, and the directness and pride of the language. The landscape is featured in the story of Jim and a young immigrant girl, Antonia; the harsh realities of early life on the Midwestern plains, and of lives on different trajectories. The set concludes with letters and gallows speeches of five of Henry VIII's six wives. ''In these songs, I chose to focus on the intimate crises of the heart'' Larsen writes. ''This group of songs is a monodrama of anguish and power.''

• Chris Campbell’s third album for innova • An album full of luscious piano loops, soaring melodic outbursts from the strings, backgrounded fuzzy guitars, sporadic kicking grooves, and skittish scrapings of junk hardware in the basement ― a little Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, Mike Oldfield, and Olivier Messiaen, and a whole lot of Campbell. • innova is a label dedicated to releasing material that consistently pushes musical boundaries outward • Available on CD and Vinyl

Journaling, the follow-up to violinist Cornelius Dufallo's solo innova debut Dream Streets, present six of the most compelling pieces from his concert series of the same name alongside two of his own works for violin and digital loops. Dufallo began the Journaling series in 2009 as a way for the violinist to draw from his rich experiences as a performer in renowned ensembles such as ETHEL, the Flux Quartet, and Ne(x)tworks in order to create a new repertoire of violin music. Encompassing compositions by established and up-and-coming luminaries, Vijay Iyer, John Luther Adams, Joan Jeanrenaud, John King, Huang Ruo, and Kenji Bunch, the series displays a tremendous breadth of influence and direction-a riveting display of what is possible with the violin in today's musical universe.

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