The listening room / Open a record
The bass line you missed. The room around a voice. A melody that turns up somewhere unexpected. Notes on music, and on paying it proper attention.
Take a seat in the listening room →A small invitation: one record, played all the way through.
Listening practice
First impressions have their uses. They tell you where your attention went. They rarely tell you everything a recording is doing. Try returning to the same track with a different question: who is keeping the time, and who is quietly moving against it?
Our listening notebook gives you a way to follow a performance without turning enjoyment into homework.
Read the listening notebook →Small groups
Follow the space between piano, bass and drums before deciding which instrument has the lead.
Musical connections
Listening across klezmer, song traditions and new arrangements without flattening the differences.
Not every good musical discovery needs a new release. Follow a musician in the credits, compare two versions of a tune, or return to the track you skipped last time.