Monthly Archives: October, 2022

OHNomad and Leon Hsu’s “A Fund Manager” is a four-track EP that asks a strange question: what does doubt sound like on a piano? OHNomad is the moniker of Owens Huang, a composer who also manages a hedge fund, and Leon Hsu is the award-winning Taiwanese jazz pianist and improviser who turns Huang’s ideas into something you can hear breathing. https://open.spotify.com/album/0LWy6rSCpVs0rNLE89Ce9W I expected spreadsheets. I got...

Rachael Sage & The Sequins have made “Under My Canopy,” an album billed as “an intimate musical refuge,” and I spent the first few songs trying to decide whether that was a promise or an invitation. By the third track, I had stopped deciding and simply moved in. https://open.spotify.com/album/5jJyGuJpCEgGuKgVkvgGER Sage is a lot of things at once: NYC-based folk-pop artist, activist, producer, visual artist, former New...