Winter 2024 issue of Canada's premiere new music magazine, with Saxophonist Andrew MacKelvie on the cover; plus features on Indonesia's Music Subculture; Sonny-Ray Day Ride; Solidaridad Tango; A History of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble; plus album reviews, essays and a CD of tracks from artists covered in the magazine.

On the Cover: Listening to the Aggregate: Saxophonist Andrew MacKelvie is seeking what the music wants.  Words and photos by Matt Horseman.

Features: The Communal Energy of Indonesia's Music Subculture is Reaching Global Stages by Sara Constant. The Joy and Commitment of Solidaridad Tango by Kim Hughes. Nicole Rampersaud Takes a Solo by Eric Hill.

More stories: Queering the Sacred: Sonny-Ray Day Rider is opening gates to a different world by Jesse Locke. Currently Arts Society is Activating the Future by C.E. Gatchalian. Pseudo Laboratories: Prairie Underground Captured on Tape by Patrick Nickleson. Group Thinking by Jennie Punter (editor's note).

Reviews of new music from: Kris Davis; Sophie Dupuis; Jeremy Dutcher; Eve Egoyan and Mauricio Pauly; Experimental Music Unit; ICOT Chamber Orchestra; Dana Jessen and Taylor Brook; Mark Takeshi McGregor; Cassandra Miller; New Age Doom; Paramorph Collective; Alessandra Rombolà; and Thin Edge New Music Collective and Linda Catlin Smith.

Events: Akousma, 19th edition (Montreal)

Words and Music: Alexa Woloshyn. An Orchestra at My Fingertips: A History of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble.

Musicworks 147 CD

1. Natural Decay, excerpt (2023) 9:34 Composed by Nicole Rampersaud. Performed by Nicole Rampersaud and Olivia Shortt.

2. Naturally Spaced (2017) 2:22 Composed by Andrew MacKelvie, with the members of New Hermitage. Performed by New Hermitage: Andrew MacKelvie (saxophone), Ellen Gibling (harp), Ross Burns (guitar), and India Gailey (cello). From New Hermitage's album One (self-released, 2017).

3. Light Through the Rubble (2018) 2:00 Composed and performed by New Hermitage.From New Hermitage's album Unearth (self-released, 2020)

4. Another Place (date unknown) 4:48 Composed by Jerry Granelli.Performed by Mike Murley (tenor saxophone), Dani Oore (tenor, soprano saxophones), Andrew MacKelvie (alto saxophone), and Andrew Jackson (trombone). From the Jerry Granelli album What I Hear Now (2015).

5. Forest Station / Stasiun Hutan  (2022) 6:33 Composed and performed by Rani Jambak. From the album / Oxygen (Yes No Wave Music, 2023) by Rani Jambak and Yenting Hsu.

6. Sangkakala (2018) 1:50

7. Nyonyon Rangda (2018) 3:04 Both tracks composed and performed by Gabber Modus Operandi (Kasimyn, computer and synth; Ican Harem, vocals). From Gabber Modus Operandi's debut album, PUXXXIMAXXX (Yes No Wave Music, 2018).

8. If Not Today (2022) 3:25 Composed by Aparna Halpé. Performed by Solidaridad Tango.

9. Pompeya (2023) 2:40 Performed by Solidaridad Tango.

10. Deriva (2023) 3:33 Composed by Pétalo Selser. Performed by Solidaridad Tango. Tracks 8, 9, and 10 from Distancia (3AM Fish Records Catalogue #1, 2023).

11. The Grief Eater Firaga (2023) I. Blood Offering 2:18 | II. Blood Elegy 6:55 Composed by Sonny-Ray Day Rider. Performed by the Kensington Sinfonia. From the album Forces of Nature (Redshift Records, TK542).

12. Interwoven 6:06 (2023) Composed and performed by Roxanne Nesbitt (custom-made bells), Anju Singh (violin, electronics). Previously unreleased.