By Gregg Shapiro
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Happy new queer! New LGBT music for the new year

"Zaka," a 2003 composition by 2005 Outmusic Award-winning composer Jennifer Higdon, receives its world premiere recording on Strange Imaginary Animals (Cedille) by contemporary-music ensemble eighth blackbird. The disc also features the world premiere recordings of "Violence" and "Evanescence" by Gordon Fitzell, "Friction Systems" by David M. Gordon, and "Strange Imaginary Remix" by Dennis DeSantis, on which eighth blackbird gets downright funky.

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