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  New Release:  Zero Point from Hadar Noiberg and Katia Toobool Release Date:  August 29, 2025 Websites:  https://hadarnoiberg.com https://www.katiatoobool.com Award-winning flutist, composer, arranger, and producer Hadar Noiberg and pianist/composer Katia Toobool announce the release of their first collaborative outing, Zero Point.   Performed live, the album showcases a mixture of intimate duo pieces, in addition to full ensemble works with the Finale String Quartet, blending original compositions by Hadar and Katia with a wide range of influences, including classical music, Brazilian rhythms, improvised excursions, and ambient jazz.  Toobool's keys emote a sense of serenity throughout the title track as sprigs of luminous tweets from Noiberg's flute dot the melody, soaring with an elegance that incites meandering reflections.  The melodic musings of the pair engage the listener, producing an inviting harmony that people welcome into their homes....

Album:  The Lonely Sailor Artist:  James Fernando Label:  Self-Released Website:  www.jamesfernando.com Pianist James Fernando tells a personal story on his solo debut recording The Lonely Sailor .  As listeners course through the recording, they discover a lone artist who embarks on a journey of personal growth.  At the start, the tracks illuminate melodic passages that are purely acoustic.  However, as the tracks progress, the music turns more sci-fi-like and electronically textured, exploring unknown territory as the subject of the story searches for what Fernando tells in the liner notes "for a better place." Starting off the recording, the title track and "Untold" are composed chiefly of classical paradigms and dramatic surges as though taken from the notebooks of such romantic pianists as Johannes Brahms or Franz Schubert. Moving on, "The Journey Within" is a macabre piece interceded by sprinkles of trickling notes propped by a noir landscape....