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LUCID CULTURE: Amir ElSaffar’s Two Rivers Release the Most Rapturously Epic Album of 2017
POPMATTERS: Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound: Not Two
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WBGO/TAKE FIVE: New Music From Aaron Parks, Amir ElSaffar, Adam Rogers, Barbara Morrison and Raul Midón
BANDCAMP DAILY: Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical: May/June 2017
1 TRACK PODCAST: Season Two, Episode Seven – Composer, Molly Joyce
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ALL ABOUT JAZZ: Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2017
BANDCAMP: Album of the Day: Brooklyn Youth Chorus, “Black Mountain Songs”
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GRAMOPHONE: Unbound
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CHYZ: FIMAV #33 – JOUR 3
SPINITRON: Pushing the Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center
LONDON JAZZ NEWS: Amir ElSaffar’s Rivers of Sound: Not Two
DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE: Amir ElSaffar/Rivers of Sound
TEXTURA: Jasper String Quartet: Unbound