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![]() Sirom: I (Amorfon -- Japan ) Price: $14.95 ![]() Out of Stock Silom is a Slovenian creative music trio using a variety of string, percussive, and melodic percussive instruments, focused on the acoustic aspects of complex evolving works that combine composed and improvised aspects to create rich music with ancient ethnic overtones. |
![]() Zorn, John: The Garden Of Earthly Delights (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $16.95 ![]() Out of Stock Composer John Zorn's Simulacrum ensemble of Trevor Dunn (bass), John Medeski (keyboards), Kenny Grohowski (drums), Matt Hollenberg (guitar), and Sara Serpa (voice) in their 6th album of heavy improv, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the passing of painter Hieronymus Bosch. |
![]() Draksler, Kaja Octet (w/ Baars / Nielsdoottir / Polence / Rave / Dumitriu / Heyndels / Govaert): Gledalec [2 CDs] (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $19.95 ![]() In Stock Draksler's interest in poetry drives this 2-CD release, with a chamber octet of improvisers and orchestra players, with 2 vocalists, two reedists (inc. Ab Baars), violin, piano, double bass, drums & orchestral percussion, performing Draksler's compositions for the words of Pablo Neruda and Andriana Minou. |
![]() Zeitkratzer: Performs Songs From The Albums "Kraftwerk" And "Kraftwerk 2" (Zeitkratzer -- Germany ) Price: $13.95 ![]() Out of Stock The 20th anniversary of director Reinhold Friedl's Zeitkratzer ensemble, who have reinterpreted in surprising ways the music of a far-ranging and eclectic set of composers and performers, as they take on the innovative electronic rock band Kraftwerk in six interpretations from their first two albums. |
![]() Archer / Clark / Grew / Hunter: Felicity's Ultimatum (Discus -- UK ) Price: $14.95 ![]() In Stock The 2nd release in a new series of small groups drawn from members of the Discus Music family, where the group meets, writes, rehearses and records in one single session, here developing ten compositions from all four players edited into a continuous sequence of structure and improvisation, embracing melody, texture and pure abstraction. |
![]() Sabat, Marc : Harmony (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() Out of Stock The fifth CD in the Canadian Composers Series is also the debut appearance on Another Timbre by the Jack Quartet, performing works by composer Marc Sabat--two string quartets and a violin/cello duo--all combining an exploration of the soundworld of Just Intonation with a strong underlying lyricism. |
![]() Smith, Linda Catlin : Drifter [2 CDs] (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $24.95 ![]() In Stock Ten pieces dating from 1995 to 2015 from Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith, performed by Quatuor Bozzini and Apartment House, the first in Another Timbre's Canadian Composer series, a 2-CD release focusing on Smith's "equal and simultaneous drive toward abstraction and lyricism" in slowly developing, lush and sophisticated compositions. |
![]() Szlavnics, Chiyoko : During a Lifetime (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() In Stock Three works from Canadian composer Chiyoko Szlavnics, two electroacoustic compositions incorporating sinewaves, one with a saxophone quartet and the other with two accordions, two flutes and two percussionists; and a string trio of long sustained tones and slow glissandi. |
![]() Ferrari, Luc: Tinguely 1967 [VINYL] (Sub Rosa -- Belgium ) Price: $16.95 ![]() Out of Stock A musique concrete compositions written in 1967 by Luc Ferrari used for a television program by C. Caspari, using recordings Ferrari made in 1966 at an exhibition of Jean Tinguely's frantically moving sculptures; plus a 1964 soundtrack to a 33 minute black-and-white film by Jean Barral. |
![]() Wooley, Nate: The Complete Syllables Music [4 CD Box Set] (Pleasure of the Text Records -- USA ) Price: $29.95 ![]() In Stock Composer, improviser, and trumpet player Nate Wooley continues to cement his place as an American iconoclast by releasing the complete recordings of his revolutionary solo [Syllables] compositions as a deluxe 4 CD set consisting of two reissues of out-of-print early works: 8 [Syllables] (2013) and 9 [Syllables] (2014) as well as the premiere recording of his 150 minute epic For Kenneth Gaburo. |
![]() Hubsch, Carl Ludwig: Rowetor 04 | Rowetor 03 (Tour de Bras -- Canada ) Price: $17.95 ![]() In Stock Ensemble leader and tuba player Carl Ludwig Hubsch created this musical concept inspired by the guitar player Keith Rowe, exploring one static sound in the ensemble, maintaining it and in the same time interacting with utmost care and openness for any necessary change, in a 22-piece ensemble of exceptional players. |
![]() Musicworks: #127 Spring 2017 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() In Stock Spring 2016 issue of Canada's premier music magazine, including a 10-track CD of musicians featured in this issue's magazine. Contents include: articles on Craig Aalders' el8dEra 3m; , Eighty-five scores celebrate Pauline Oliveros; Toronto label All-Set! Editions; Thin Edge New Music Collective; electronic composer John Mills-Cockell; and much more! |
![]() Kovac, Boris: East Off Europe - Closing the Circle (Les Disques Victo -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() Out of Stock |
![]() Silence Ensemble led by Peter Urpeth: John Cage: Speech (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 ![]() Out of Stock These recordings of pieces by John Cage were made at a performance called Silence & Transmission led by Peter Upreth conducting an ensemble of four performers using radios and voice, held at An Lanntair Arts Centre, Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides on 20th September 2012, as part of the celebrations for Cage's centenary. |
![]() Pateras, Anthony: Blood Stretched Out (Immediata -- Australia ) Price: $15.95 ![]() In Stock A dramatic work for solo piano, exploring sound phenomena in fast repetitions that generate whirlpools of overtones, "Blood Stretched Out" is the primary track on composer & pianist Anthony Pateras' first solo album in 10 years, paired with "Chronochromatics", recorded live at The Loft in Cologne as part of the Plush Music Festival in 2013. |
![]() Noetinger, Jerome / Anthony Pateras / Synergy Percussion : Beauty Will Be Amnesiac Or Will Not Be At All (Immediata -- Australia ) Price: $19.95 ![]() Out of Stock Anthony Pateras was commissioned to compose this work by Synergy Percussion for their 40th birthday in 2014, performed with a six piece ensemble including electronic artist Jerome Noetinger, using the same instrumentation as Xenakis' "Pleiades" of more than 100 orchestral percussion instruments, including Xenakis' 17-pitch microtonal metallophones. |
![]() de Alvear, Maria / Antoine Beuger: Besando El Tiempo [2 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 ![]() In Stock Antoine Beuger performs composer Maria De Alvear's 1995 contemplative work "Besando El Tiempo" (Kissing The Time) written using an automatic script and originally composed for the flautist Caren Levine; after hearing Beuger's interpretation she requested that he record it, the result this rendition that takes the composition on an introspective journey. |
![]() Frey, Jurg: Ephemeral Constructions (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 ![]() In Stock Three works, two for large ensembles of performers on sax, guitar, clarinet, voice, percussion, horn, flute, vibes, and objects that belie the size of the group in its fragile presences, with a shorter trio of Frey, Greg Stuart and Erik Carlson transitioning the large pieces; compositions conceived as both short presences within abundant orchestration. |
![]() Guney, Cem: A Hint Of An Emotion (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 ![]() In Stock The duo of Beat Keller and Philipp Bowee on electric guitars perform 6 subtle compositions from Turkish-born sound artists and composer Cem Guney's, including 'a bas relief of a talisman' dedicated to Charles Ives and 'soft kill incubator' dedicated to Sylvia Alexandra Schimag. |
![]() Houben, Eva Maria: Organ Sonatinas And Drones [2 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 ![]() In Stock American organist and composer Carson Cooman performs three sontatinas, each in three movements, and the 2014 work "drones", by German contemporary composer Eva Maria Houben, a member of the Wandelweiser group, all slowly evolving works of tone and subtle harmonics. |
![]() Pisaro, Michael: Sometimes (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 ![]() In Stock The MaDam Electroacoustic Improvisation Collective based in Spain performs the first in Pisaro's 34 piece Harmony Series, which attempts to create the conditions for a harmonic situation without giving any actual notes, just numbers, durations of tones, and pauses; this work is based on "swell piece (for alison knowles)" (1967) by James Tenney. |
![]() Schlothauer, Burkhard: More Chamber Events [2CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 ![]() In Stock Composer Burkhard Schlothauer, co-founder of Editions Wandelweiser and a member of Zeitkratzer and the Wandwelweiser Composers Ensemble, in a five part work conceived as a single part, combining previous works into various possible versions as "events", working with spatial distribution, slow beats, noise, and pulse, superimposed from their origins. |
![]() Clinamen Trio (Marion / Di Donato / Berger): Decline (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 ![]() In Stock Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus named "Clinamen" the unpredictable (in time and space) swerve of atoms falling in the void, which aptly describes the unexpected directions taken in subtle free improvisation from this French trio, led by bassist Louis-Michel Marion, with Jacques Di Donato on clarinet, and Philippe Berger on viola. |
![]() Pollak, Andreas / Johan Graden: Terror Of Positivity (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 ![]() Out of Stock The Swedish duo of percussionist Andreas Pollak and prepared pianist Johan Graden (Adam & Alma) in an album of references and innuendo, clandestine and furtive sounds that evoke great mystery and drama in beautifully shaped sound; evocative music that deceives to emerge from the electronic realm while in actuality coming from all acoustic sources. |
![]() Rodrigues, Ernesto / Guilherme Rodrigues / Miguel Mira / Nuno Torres / Eduardo Chagas / Antonio Chaparreiro / Rodrigo Pinheiro / Carlos Santos / Jose Oliveira : Jadis La Pluie Etait Bleue (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 ![]() Out of Stock The second volume of the project heard in the previous Creative Sources album, "Suspensao", here in a 9-piece electroacoust ensemble with viola, cello, doublebass, alto sax, trombone, piano, electric guitar, computer and percussion, suspenseful lowercase music that unfolds in mysterious, beautiful and rewarding ways. |
![]() Wisseltangcamatta, The: Movements (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 ![]() Out of Stock Live recordings at LOFT in Cologne, Germany from the trio of George Wissel on prepared saxophone, Achim Tang on doublebass, and Simon Camatta on drums & percussion, performing seven "Movements" that use prodigious technique with reserve and direction, revealing the structure of their work as the pieces build and recede in fascinating ways. |
![]() Brady, Tim: Three Cities in the Life of Dr. Norman Bethune (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() Out of Stock A chamber opera that tells the story of the life of the Canadian doctor and humanitarian Norman Bethune by interweaving extracts from Bethune's own letters with poetry of the 1930s. |
![]() Brady, Tim: Unison Rituals (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() In Stock Five original chamber works for saxophone and ensemble by composer and saxophonist Tim Brady for his second release on Ambiances Magnetiques. |
![]() Cremaster / Komora A: split [7-inch VINYL] (Monotype -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 ![]() Out of Stock A split 7" release between Cremaster (Alfredo Costa Monteiro (electronics) and Ferran Fages (feedback mixing board and electroacoustic devices); and the Komora A trio of Karol Koszniec (electronics), Dominik Kowalczyk (laptop) and Jakub Mikolajczyk (modular synth). |
![]() Kahn, Jason: Open Space [VINYL 2 LPs] (Editions -- Switzerland ) Price: $29.95 ![]() In Stock Jason Kahn developed these graphic scores, commissioned by the 2012 now NOW Festival in Australia, to push these specific players into situations outside of their comfort zone, as heard in this double LP which includes copies of the score plus notes and interviews. |
![]() Kalashnikov: Bang Bang [2 CDs] (Veal -- USA ) Price: $19.95 ![]() In Stock Double CD of bleak and sinister metal-oriented improv from the duo of Jamie Saft on keys and bass and Mike Pride on drums and hostile and freakish vocals. |
![]() Kodjabashia, Nikola: The Most Of Now (Recommended Records -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() Out of Stock An exquisite and subtle new composition by Macedonian composer Nikola Kodjbashaia realised by an ensemble of exemplary instrumentalists in a unique musical landscape. |
![]() Martel, Frank / L'Ouest Celeste: Ye - Yi - You - Ya (Monsieur Fauteux -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() In Stock |
![]() Miguel, Sei: Esfingico - Suite for a Jazz Combo (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $12.95 ![]() In Stock A four part suite bridging compositional and improvisational music from Portugese pocket trumpeter Sei Miguel in a quintet including Rafael Toral on modulated electronics. |
![]() MusicWorks: #110 Summer 2011 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() In Stock Summer 2011 issue of Canada's premiere music magazine and CD, with articles and tracks from Gregory Oh, Grimes, Doldrums, The Vegetable Orchestra, Terri Hron, Miguel Azguime, Rachel Wadham, &c. |
![]() Novak, Ryan: Balloon Proportions (RY/NO Records -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() In Stock Multi-instrumentalist improviser Novak, who has worked with Tim Daisy and Tatsuya Nakatani, in an eclectic and complex solo release of colliding genres. |
![]() Quatuor Bozzini: Michel Gonneville: Hozhro (Collection QB -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() In Stock Michel Gonneville's dreamlike, shamanistic journey, "Hozhro", in a brilliantly executed reading by Montreal's Quatuori Bozzini with vocalist Marianne Lamber & saxophonist Mathieu Gualin. |
![]() Roger, Danielle Palardy: Bruiducoeur, prieres des infideles (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() In Stock Composer Danielle Palardy Roger presents a work for a 13-voice mixed choir, two speakers, two soloists, and two percussionists in a satirical elegy that is an account of a man's last agonizing moments. |
![]() DK & The Perfectly Ordinary: CAR DEW TREAT US (Spool -- Canada ) Price: $10.95 ![]() In Stock A diverse set of artist interpret a random page from Cornelius Cardew's "Treatise", using the score alone with each artist unable to hear what the other participants were playing, which Spool label-leader Daniel Kernohan assembled into these 10 incredible audio tracks, each roughly 4:35 long, in a great interpretation of Cardew's (in)famous work. |
![]() Rowe, Keith / Michael Pisaro: 13 Thirteen [2 CDs] (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $23.95 ![]() Out of Stock A collaboration between composer Michael Pisaro and AMM guitarist/improviser Keith Rowe, with each bringing scores which they improvised over, creating 13 discrete sections including samples from Shostakovich's 13th String Quartet, balancing activity, space and silence in patient ways that only two such experienced composer/improvisers could. |
![]() Siegel, Aaron: Science is Only a Sometimes Friend (Lock Step Records -- USA ) Price: $11.95 ![]() Out of Stock A work for eight glockenspiels and organ, a beautiful percussive work in the vein of Reich and Glass that creates hallucinatory illusions in sound as the piece progresses, testing "the science of attention and the counterpoint of daydreams". |
![]() Akama, Ryoko : Places And Pages [2 CDs] (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $20.95 ![]() In Stock Composer Ryoko Akama releases a 2 disc set of 23 scores in the crossroads of minimalism and sound compositions, quiet and loud, performed in a sextet with the composer herself plus Christian Muller, Cristian Alvear, Cyril Bondi, Stefan Thut, and d'incise, each section like a page in a notebook related to place, space, time or location. |
![]() Feldman, Morton : Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() In Stock Morton Feldman's final composition, originally premiered in 1987, here performed by pianist Mark Knoop, violinist Aisha Orazbayeva, violist Bridget Carey, and cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, recording a year after their successful performance at London's Cafe Oto, maintaining focus and concentration on this large, unhurried work of micro-variations. |
![]() Beuger, Antoine : Ockeghem Octets (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() In Stock Wandelweiser composer Antoine Beuger presents 25 of the 50 pages of his "Ockeghem Octets", each piece dedicated to one of Beuger's heroes, performed by an octet comprised of melodica, concertina, harmonium, e-bow zither, cello, flute, accordion and alto flute, each player provided notes and a playing methodology to create these gorgeous soundscape. |
![]() Skogen / Magnus Granberg: 'Ist gefallen in den Schnee' (2010) and 'Despairs had Governed Me Too Long' (2012) [double CD reissue] (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $24.95 ![]() Out of Stock Ist gefallen in den Schnee: A piece by Swedish composer-pianist Magnus Granberg, performed with Angharad Davies, Anna Lindal, Leo Svensson Sander, John Eriksson, Erik Carlsson, Henrik Olsson, Petter Wastberg and Toshimaru Nakamura; Despairs: A beautiful extended composition exquisitely played by an ensemble of fine musicians. |
![]() Denley, Jim: Through Fire, Crevice and The Hidden Valley (Splitrec -- Australia ) Price: $17.95 ![]() In Stock Recorded live in an Australian National Park on a 15-day walk, saxophonist Jim Denley performs solo on the alto saxophone in response to and in conversation with the environment around him using the natural acoustics of this rugged and awe-inspiring region. |
![]() Derome, Jean: Canot-Camping: Expedition 4 (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() In Stock Excellent recording made while on a canoe and camping trip by 11 improvisers from the Montreal musique actuelle scene on their fourth expedition of the kind. |
![]() LEK: Giant World Knowlege Bliss Control (Fuzzworld Record -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() In Stock |
![]() Martins, Luis Jose: Tentos - Invencoes E Encantamentos (Shhpuma -- Portugal ) Price: $12.95 ![]() In Stock Luis Jose Martins uses classical guitar, prepared guitar, electronics, and percussion in a solo album of incredible detail and lyrical, beautiful playing of original compositions that blend his playing with modern techniques and electronics into melodic masterpieces, performed in the natural resonance of the church of the convent of S. Bento in Avis. |
![]() Horsthuis, Maurice Jargon: Elastic Jargon (DATA -- The Netherlands ) Price: $14.95 ![]() Out of Stock At its core Jargon mixes strings, electric guitar, violin, cello and double bass, a modern and elastic sound exploring contemporary composed and improvised musics. |
![]() Pisaro, Michael: Closed Categories in Cartesian Worlds (Gravity Wave -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() Out of Stock Michael Pisaro & Greg Stuart collaborate on a work scored for bowed crotales and sine tones in 4 large pieces, a challenging work that provide hallucinatory overtones that shift with the listener's perspective. |
![]() Quatuor Bozzini - Jean Derome, Joane Hetu: Le mensonge et l'identite (Collection QB -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() In Stock The Bozzini Quartet commissioned this work from the duo Derome/Hetu, which tackles the subject of making differences cohabit, calling for the musicians to move & improvise in response to a soundtrack in 4 languages. |
![]() Roger, Danielle Palardy: Pinta, Nina & Maria (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() In Stock 3 live recordings from 3 ensembles - GGRIL, Ensemble SuperMusique and ECM+ - exploring relationsips between early music and contemporary creative music; with Jean Derome, Joane Hetu, Diane Labrosse, Bernard Falaise, &c. &c. |
![]() Schubert, Matthias: 9 Compositions for The Multiple Joy[ce] Ensemble (Red Toucan -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() Out of Stock Matthias Schubert conducts nine dynamic and spectacular compositions dedicated to John Cage, Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, Duke Ellington, &c. and performers including Scott Fields, Frank Gratkowski, Carl Ludwig Hubsch, &c. |
![]() Various Artists: Because Tomorrow Comes #3 (Because Tomorrow Comes -- Germany ) Price: $9.95 ![]() Out of Stock The third volume of this excellent German sound magazine and audio CD, 9 artists working in sound art, electroacoustic composition; a "listenable exhibition" of modern compositional approach. |
![]() Various Artists: Sculpted Sound (FMR -- Great Britain ) Price: $14.95 ![]() Out of Stock Performances and discussion about a series of twenty metal sculptures created by Derek Shiel to be performed on as a set of percussion instruments or to be exhibited as sculpture. |
![]() Vasallo, Nick: The Burning (Ars Nova Classics -- USA ) Price: $7.95 ![]() In Stock The 1st release on the Ars Nova Classics label presents 'Eclecticism' composer Nick Vasallo in genreÐblurring avant and electro-acoustic works performed by several ensembles. |
![]() Tanaka, Ayumi / Johan Lindvall / Christian Wallumrod: 3 Pianos (Nakama Records -- Norway ) Price: $14.95 ![]() Out of Stock This trio joins 3 disparate approaches to composition and improvisation--Japanese improviser Ayumi Tanaka, Oslo composer Johan Lindvall, and ECM artist Christian Wallumrod-developing the engaging material on this album by focusing on elements like tuning, register, intervals and dynamics, for an absorbing album of compatible and concentrative playing. |
![]() Tanaka, Ayumi / Johan Lindvall / Christian Wallumrod: 3 Pianos [VINYL LP] (Nakama Records -- Norway ) Price: $22.95 ![]() Out of Stock This trio joins 3 disparate approaches to composition and improvisation--Japanese improviser Ayumi Tanaka, Oslo composer Johan Lindvall, and ECM artist Christian Wallumrod-developing the engaging material on this album by focusing on elements like tuning, register, intervals and dynamics, for an absorbing album of compatible and concentrative playing. |
![]() Saunders / Thomas / Parkinson / Davies / Chase / Davies (Edges Ensemble): divisions that could be autonomous but that comprise the whole (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() Out of Stock 6 works from a series of minimal compositions loosely based on the art & writings of Sol LeWitt, performed by the Edges Ensemble: Philip Thomas, James Saunders, Tim Parkinson, Angharad Davies, Stephen Chase & Rhodri Davies. |
![]() Zeitkratzer / Svetlana Spajic / Dragana Tomic / Obrad Milic: Serbian War Songs [VINYL] (KARLRECORDS -- Germany ) Price: $19.95 ![]() Out of Stock Reinhold Friedl's Zeitkratzer ensemble and special guests, vocalists Svetlana Spajic, Dragana Tomic, and diple / gusle player Obrad Milic, explore the possibilities found in traditional Serbian songs from and about World War I, including the classic epic "Assassination In Sarajevo", and songs chosen specifically by Spajic and Tomic. |
![]() Zeitkratzer + Elliott Sharp: Oneirika: Live at Berghain Berlin [VINYL] (KARLRECORDS -- Germany ) Price: $19.95 ![]() Out of Stock Commissioned by Berlin's Maerzmusik Festival and premiered in 2014, Elliott Sharp's composition & soundscape is named after the Greek waking dream and inspired by John Cage, Sharp using a methodology to filter and process his musical manuscripts via Photoshop, which are interpreted through amplification of acoustic instruments by the Zeitkratzer ensemble. |
![]() Nitsch, Hermann: Orgelkonzert Jesuitenkirche 20.11.2013 (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $12.23 ![]() Out of Stock Austrian avant-garde musician and multimedia artist Hermann Nitsch performed these powerful and mesmerizing solo organ drone works during the 2013 "Shut up and listen" festival in in the Jesuit church of Vienna, releasing the 4 recordings with an 8-page booklet of art and an essay from Nitsch himself, with mastering by Martin Siewert. |
![]() Mitchell, Roscoe: Discussions (Wide Hive -- USA ) Price: $15.45 ![]() Out of Stock Four original improvisations, taken from legendary AACM composer, improviser and saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell's "Conversations" album transcribed and performed by a twenty piece Bay Area orchestra, along with two orchestral improvisations and two duets with Roscoe Mitchell and flutist Wilfredo Terrazas. |
![]() Binder, Claudia: Piano Solo II (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 ![]() In Stock Pianist Claudia Binder presents 3 concepts for solo piano - the introspective "Room for a Sound" and it's dramatic inverse, "Sound for a Room"; "Polyphony" in 3 parts using piano preparation, one part playful, one part serious, one part peculiar; and an inexplicable "It Takes Two to Tango"--in performances revealing a curious mind and tremendous skill. |
![]() Cage, John: Cheap Imitation (Cramps -- Italy ) Price: $12.95 ![]() Out of Stock A 1989 reissue of the 1977 Cramps release from their Nova Musicha series, this album is a piece for solo piano by John Cage, composed in 1969, an indeterminate piece created using the I Ching and based, rhythmically, on Socrate by Erik Satie. |
![]() Eisenstadt, Harris / Mivos Quartet: Whatever Will Happen That Will Also Be [VINYL] (NoBusiness -- Lithuania ) Price: $18.90 ![]() In Stock NY free jazz drummer and composer Harris Eisenstadt brings his talents to the compositional world with this four movement suite performed by the Mivos Quartet of Olivia De Prato, Josh Modney, Victor Lowrie and Mariel Roberts, a creative composition blending melodic and textural approaches to the strings in a bold rendering of Eisenstandt's work. |
![]() Pateras, Anthony / Erkki Veltheim: The Slow Creep Of Convenience (Immediata -- Australia ) Price: $18.95 ![]() Out of Stock Anthony Pateras performs on pipe organ alongside Erkki Veltheim on electric violin, presenting a single extended work joining both instruments as a unified timbral force, producing exquisite and hypnotic sensorial phenomena over 50 minutes, as the duo investigate spectral phenomena in sound; includes a 24 page illuminating booklet interviewing both artists. |
![]() 176 (Chris Abrahams / Anthony Pateras): Music In Eight Octaves (Immediata -- Australia ) Price: $18.95 ![]() In Stock In 2005 Australian pianists Chris Abrahams (The Necks) and Anthony Pateras multi-tracked 4 takes in each octave of the piano, superimposing them over each other to create a kaleidoscopic maelstrom of pianistic energy, layers of piano creating a hypnotic and dizzying set of textures and unexpected sonic intersections. |
![]() Good, Kevin : Listen (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 ![]() In Stock Kevin Good organized this composition from four field recordings collected near Avon, CT, isolating sounds that he found interesting and then attempting to recreate them on other instruments, finally adding the human voice sparsely utilized throughout the piece, all to promote the idea of listeners actively paying attention to the sounds of their environment. |
![]() Cage, John : Winter Music (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() In Stock John Cage's 1957 composition in a visceral realisation for four pianos, played by John Tilbury, Philip Thomas, Mark Knoop and Catherine Laws, using chance procedures to assign each of the pianist's five of the twenty pages of the score, the pianists agreeing on an overall duration of 40 minutes and preparing their parts independently, performed without rehearsal. |
![]() Criton, Pascale : Infra (Potlatch -- France ) Price: $15.95 ![]() Out of Stock Four fascinating compositions by Pascale Criton exploring microtonalities on instruments tuned in 1/16th tone (violin, viola, guitar) based on gestural processes developed in close collaboration with the musicians: one duo with Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker, one solo piece with Deborah Walker, and two pieces performed by Dedalus Ensemble. |
![]() Mincek, Alex : Torrent (Sound American/Pleasure of the Text Records -- USA ) Price: $19.95 ![]() In Stock NY Composer and Zs founder Alex Mincek's first release since 2011 also launches Sound American's Young Composer Portrait series, presenting 4 chamber works--"Pendulum VII"; selected movements from "Harmonielehre"; "Pneuma"; and "Torrent"--performed by Wet Ink Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, and Yarn/Wire, in a deluxe hardcover book package with interviews and notes. |
![]() Frey, Jurg : Collection Gustave Roud [2 CDs] (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $24.95 ![]() In Stock A double CD with five beautiful pieces that engage with the work of the extraordinary French-Swiss poet Gustave Roud, with performers including Dante Boon, Stefan Thut, Andrew McIntosh and Jurg Frey himself, 10 compositions that Frey wrote in the manner that Roud would, roaming with a sketchbook and developing the pieces based on impressions of his surroundings. |
![]() Barbares (Bopp / Foussat / Petit / Sato): Debris d'orgueil (Fou Records -- France ) Price: $13.95 ![]() In Stock Two live recordings at Theatre au Clain, in Poitiers, France and at le Bistrot, in Bayonne, from the free improvising quartet of Christiane Bopp on trombone, Jean-Marc Foussat on synth & voice, Jean-Luc Petit on bass clarinet and sopranino sax, and Makoto Sato on drums, for submersive interchanges blending electronics and acoustics in remarkable ways. |
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Feldman, Morton (Judith Wegmann): Triadic Memories [2 CDs]
Brotzmann, Peter / Lonberg-Holm, Fred: Memories Of A Tunicate
Feldman, Morton (Philip Thomas): Piano [5 CD BOX SET]
Cage, John: Klang der Wandlungen [3 CDs]
Cardew, Cornelius / London Experimental Ensemble: Treatise
Feldman, Morton : Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
Foussat, Jean-Marc / Daunik Lazro / Evan Parker: Cafe OTO 2020 [2 CDs]
Frey, Jurg: String Quartet No. 3 / Unhorbare Zeit
O'Malley, Stephen / Anthony Pateras: Reve Noir
Wooley, Nate: Seven Storey Mountain VI
Feldman, Morton (Judith Wegmann / Andreas Kunz): For John Cage [2 CDs]
Houben, Eva-Maria : Ensemble Works [2 CDS]
Tenney, James (Ensemble Open Music Gera): Acoustic Phenomena / Hymnic Sounds
Feldman, Morton played by John Tilbury & Philip Thomas: Two Pianos And Other Pieces 1953-1969 [2 CDs
Futari (Satoko Fujii / Taiko Saito): Underground
Smith, Linda Catlin : Dirt Road
Smith, Linda Catlin : Drifter [2 CDs]
Feldman, Morton / Apartment House: Piano and String Quartet
Frey, Jurg: Ephemeral Constructions
Pisaro, Michael / Reinier van Houdt: The Earth And The Sky [3 CDs]