My upcoming album, Forward Music Project 1.0, was listed in today’s New York Times!
“The cellist Amanda Gookin has had some experience shepherding new works into the classical repertory. PUBLIQuartet, a group that Gookin co-founded, co-commissioned a piece by Jessica Meyer for its Grammy-nominated 2019 recording, “Freedom & Faith.” Gookin’s latest album — “Forward Music Project 1.0,” which comes out on Friday — adds to that momentum by presenting listeners with a fresh slate of compositions.”
Seth Colter Walls writes the album “commences in high style, courtesy of the composer and multi-instrumentalist Nathalie Joachim’s track “Dam mwen yo” and describes Nathalie Joachim’s and my collaboration as “communal joy embedded in a music of cooperation” where the “joy of transmitting knowledge is perceptible.”