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Vigroux, Franck: we (nous autres) (D'Autres Cordes -- France ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Electronic sound artist Franck Vigroux uses electronics, guitar, percussion, and his voice in this dark release with vocalist Annabelle Playe. |
Ammann, Dieter: The Freedom of Speech (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock The Ensemble fur Neue Musik Zurich plays seven pieces by Swiss composer Dieter Ammann, each made through a very slow creative process that contrasts the very lively and gestural music. |
Barlow, Clarence: Musica Derivata (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Composer Clarence Barlow, like Beethoven, builds his own labyrinths, brick by brick, and then searches for an escape by creating conceptual forms to get around the traps of time, tonality, and style. |
Counterpoise (Carisi / Sauter / Wolff / Wolfpe): Counterpoise (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Four composers - John Carisi, Eddie Sauter, Christian Wolff, and Stefan Wolpe - create a program of works with a measured balance in the interrelated and contrasting material. |
Distel, Herbert: Railnotes [2 CDs] (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Two slow-motion radio pieces by Swiss audio artist Herbert Distel that blur the threshold between the "real" sound world and the sonic realms of illusion and imagination. |
Gregorio, Guillermo: Faktura (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Guillermo Gregorio produces a series of compositions that reinterprets the structural concepts of Constructivism, Concretism, and Madi, focusing on the physicality of sound. |
Kasemets, Udo: Pythagoras Tree (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Pianist Stephen Clarke plays seven works for solo piano by Estonian-born, Canadian-naturalized composer Udo Kasemets that focus on specific designs of micro-detail. |
Mehta, Rajesh (feat. Paul Lovens): Orka (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Indian-born, currently Amsterdam-based American Rajesh Mehta expands the timbral and textural palette of the trumpet in twelve pieces with accompaniment by Paul Lovens on drums and cymbals. |
Mitterer, Wolfgang: Radio Fractal / Beat Music [2 CDs] (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Six musicians play along with Wolfgang Mitterer's one hour and fifty-four minute computer track which leaves ample room for free improvisation, mixing contemporary composition with electronic and jazz music. |
Nagl, Max Ensemble: Ramasuri (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Musician and composer Max Nagl in his first release that breaks away from his standard miniaturist compositions and is played with a broad-band ensemble. |
Postmarks (Boris Hauf / D Bayne / Martin Siewert): National Parks (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $14.95 In Stock The duo of saxophonist Boris Hauf and pianist D Bayne team up with guitarist Martin Siewert in this collection of tracks inspired by different U.S. national parks and their representation in iconic posters. |
RLW & Srmeixner: Just Like A Flower When Winter Begins (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 In Stock An interesting mixture of sound and spoken word originally recorded as a DJ set by RLW for a birthday celebration that was remixed with help from Stephen Meixner. |
Rudhyar, Dane: Works For Piano (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Pianist Steffen Schleiermacher plays six spiritual pieces by composer Dane Rudhyar that are not meant to be analyzed and thought about, but to be felt and experienced. |
Wolpe / Feldman / Zimmerman / Seel: Four Generations (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Pianist and composer Daniel N. Seel plays four pieces from four generations of different composers including Stefan Wolpe, Morton Feldman, Walter Zimmerman, and his own work. |
Rempis / Daisy Duo, The: Second Spring (Aerophonic -- USA ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Since 1997 drummer Tim Daisy and saxophonist Dave Rempis have worked together as part of the vital Chicago improvising scene, heard here in these superb duo sessions of great technical, musical, and inventive skills. |
Spontaneous Music Orchestra: For You To Share (Emanem -- Great Britain ) Price: $16.95 In Stock Concert and studio recordings of peace music organised by John Stevens for himself and Trevor Watts with numerous workshop musicians and audience people on saxophones, percussion and voices mostly contributing a flexible drone. |
Wire, The: #359 January 2014 [MAGAZINE] (The Wire -- Great Britain ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Wire's annual survey of the past 12 months, including their Top 50 Releases, Top 50 Archive Releases, and commentary from Simon Reynolds, Clive Bell, Agata Pyzik, &c. &c. |
Gjerstad, Frode / Luis Conte: Mirrors Edges (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Two reed players, Frode Gjerstad from Norway and Luis Conte from Buenos Aires, in studio recordings of improvised interactions using unusual and extended techniques through eleven short and incisive tracks. |
Nagl, Max Ensemble: Ramasuri [Used Item] (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $14.50 In Stock Musician and composer Max Nagl in his first release that breaks away from his standard miniaturist compositions and is played with a broad-band ensemble. |
Postmarks (Boris Hauf / D Bayne / Martin Siewert): National Parks [Used Item] (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $12.00 In Stock The duo of saxophonist Boris Hauf and pianist D Bayne team up with guitarist Martin Siewert in this collection of tracks inspired by different U.S. national parks and their representation in iconic posters. |
Lossing, Russ / Ed Schuller / Paul Motian: As It Grows (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Composer and pianist Russ Lossing explores the eloquence of silence as his music grows out of silence and the space between thought and gesture in this trio with Ed Schuller (bass) and Paul Motian (drums). |
Nagl, Max / Otto Lechner / Bradley Jones: Flamingos (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Max Nagl (composer, saxophones), Otto Lechner (accordion, piano, voice) and Bradley Jones (double bass) play ten pieces inspired by Charles Mingus but with a unique signature that is Nagl's own. |
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