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![]() Pavone, Jessica: Clamor [VINYL] (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Price: $22.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock With a septet of women improvisers and contemporary performers, composer and violinist Jessica Pavone's long-form collective improv compositions are titled after innovations made by women throughout history to circumvent obstructions to their freedoms, revealed through string and bassoon orchestration that balances harmony, dissonance, drone and disruptive experimentation. |
![]() Lamb, Catherine / Kristofer Svensson: Translucent Harmonies - two duos for violin and viola, performed by andPlay (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The New York-based andPlay duo of violinist Maya Bennardo and violist Hannah Levinson perform two extended works commissioned for their performance series, Translucent Harmonies: first an acoustic rendering of Catherine Lamb's "Prisma Interius VIII (Melodic Duo)"; then Kristofer Svensson's work of contrasts, surprises, modulations, and transformations. |
![]() Chrysakis, Thanos / Chris Cundy / Peer Schlechta / Ove Volquartz: Archangel (Aural Terrains -- UK ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The follow-up to Music for Two Organs and Two Bass Clarinets, combining the collective work of clarinetists Chris Cundy, (bass clarinets, soprano ocarina) & Ove Volquartz (bass clarinets), Thanos Chrysakis (chamber organ & voice) and Peer Schlechta (pipe organ), recorded in the natural resonance of the Neustadter Kirche church in Hofgeismar, Germany. |
![]() Pavone, Jessica: Clamor (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock With a septet of women improvisers and contemporary performers, composer and violinist Jessica Pavone's long-form collective improv compositions are titled after innovations made by women throughout history to circumvent obstructions to their freedoms, revealed through string and bassoon orchestration that balances harmony, dissonance, drone and disruptive experimentation. |
![]() Frey, Jurg / Apartment House: String Trio (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Reworking a piece for string trio originally commissioned by the Concertgebouw Brugge and premiered by the Goeyvaerts Trio as part of the 2019 SLOW Festival, this new version expands on the original composition to bring elegant calmness and clarity to the work, performed by UK's Apartment House members Mira Benjamin on violin, Bridget Carey on viola and Anton Lukoszevieze on cello. |
![]() Cater, Seamus: A History of Musical Pitch (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Investigating the experimental legacy of Victorian polymath Alexander J. Ellis, author of the 1880 paper, The History of Musical Pitch, composer Seamus Cater uses 74 tuning forks tuned to represent Elliss research of just ratios of 480Hz, in three compositions focusing on the most consonant tones of the system, and balancing them through minimalist chamber work from a 7-piece ensemble. |
![]() Wastell, Mark: Pre-Existing Commitments (Hundred Years Gallery -- UK ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock During cellist and Confront label-leader Mark Wastell's 2022 residency at the East London Hundred Years Gallery he recorded four solo recordings, using his acutely creative approach to the strings in unique ways for each recording, which he then layered in the studio without edits to create this wildly and often psychedelically stochastic orchestral work. |
![]() Lamb, Catherine: Parallaxis Forma (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two works for voice and chamber orchestra performed by the UK Explore Ensemble under the direction of Nicholas Moroz, and a multi-tracked vocal work by Lotte Betts-Dean, rich and understated works of rich harmonics and atmospheric overtones composed by Catherine Lamb, placing phonetic vocals in space and ambiance, eschewing words for tone, texture and motion; mesmerizing. |
![]() Cutler, Chris: Compositions And Collaborations 1972-2022: In A Box [10 CD / DVD / BOOKLET BOX SET] (Recommended Records -- UK ) Price: $74.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock An amazing collection and reflection on the work of percussionist, composer and connector Chris Cutler of Henry Cow fame and founder of the highly influential Recommended Records label and distribution service, through 10 CDs, 1 DVD and two books of documentation, artwork, photographs, published and unpublished texts in a sturdy box, with over five hours of unreleased materials. |
![]() Butterfield, Christopher: Souvenir (Reshirt -- Canada ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Following his collaboration with Montreal's Quatuor Bozzini, British Columbia-based composer Christopher Butterfield draws on members of Aventa Ensemble and the Victoria Symphony to perform four works of "knotty contrapuntal figures and an ever-changing instrumental palette", mischievous works of interesting progression and percussive punctuation. |
![]() Granberg, Magnus: How Lonely Sits the City? (version for quartet) (Meenna -- Japan ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock An exquisite work for violin, cello, harp and prepared piano composed by Magnus Granberg, who also performs on piano, at the invitation of fellow Swedish contemporary performers Leo Svensson Sander (cello), Stina Hellberg Agback (harp) and Eva Lindal (violin), a complement to the version released on Another Timbre in 2022 and performed by Granberg's Skogen ensemble. |
![]() Musicworks: #146 Fall 2023 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Fall 2023 issue of Canada's premiere new music magazine, with Julie Richards on the cover in an article exploring the legacy of little known Black female composers; plus articles on Maria Chavez and her turntable art; Michele Geister use of '80s music TV; composer Trevor Grahl; Mustafa Rafiq; Evan Dysart; plus reviews, essays and a CD of tracks from the aforementioned artists. |
![]() Vathres: Liturgy of Lacuna (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Three expansive works from composer and keyboardist/pianist Alex Zethson, developing concepts from themes and motifs developed over more than a decade, recorded over two years with exceptional care as he and his collaborators create subtle and beautifully evocative sonic environments that seamlessly incorporate acoustic, electronic, drone and feedback elements. |
![]() Vathres: Liturgy of Lacuna [VINYL] (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $24.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Three expansive works from composer and keyboardist/pianist Alex Zethson, developing concepts from themes and motifs developed over more than a decade, recorded over two years with exceptional care as he and his collaborators create subtle and beautifully evocative sonic environments that seamlessly incorporate acoustic, electronic, drone and feedback elements. |
![]() Zuckerman, Adam: STARPERMEABLE (Nueni -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A composition for at least three musicians and processed field recordings from Adam Zuckerman, here configured as a quintet eliciting a poem by Paul Celan, organizing the lines of the poem into multiple movements, exquisitely performed by Kanoa Ichiyanagi (viola), Zaq Kenefick (harmonica), Juan Marroquin (flute), Dylan Marx (guitar) and Kristyna Svihalova (percussion). |
![]() Peters, Steve: Chamber Music [CD BOX + USB] (ANTS Records -- Italy ) Price: $69.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A series of sound installations derived from a single recording made in the empty spaces in which they are later presented, with no people present during the recording including the composer, filtered to isolate and amplify certain of the room's resonant frequencies, creating a series of drones which are the only sound materials used; no musical instruments are involved. |
![]() Peters, Steve: Chamber Music (ANTS Records -- Italy ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Ten sonically beautiful pieces derived from recordings made in empty spaces, transforming the sounds that leak in from the outside world using filters and amplification to find sonic resonance in those sounds and in the room's natural frequencies, like light filering into the space, each piece then played back in the same room at low volume as part of an installation presentation. |
![]() Nevai, Nandor: The Walls Of Song (Psykomanteum -- USA ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A through-composed album of "Popular Brass & Military Songcraft" from composer, drummer and vocalist Nandor Nevai, in 9 original songs of cinematic vocals to the duo of bass trombones and a tonal percussion configuration including pedal timpani; and the world premiere of a previously unrecorded Krzysztof Penderecki instrumental conducted by Ron Stabinsky. |
![]() Evans-Weiler, Morgan: Correspondences (Editions Verde -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The third release in Editions Verde's series "Seeing the Forest in a Tree" are three iterations of interpretations realized by Joseph Clayton Mills, Fraufraulein, and the duo Sarah Hughes and Patrick Farmer, who were invited to interact with Morgan Evans-Weiler's score intended to be interpreted as both sound and sculpture, presented in three unique sets of recordings. |
![]() CALATO / John Cage: Variations + Four6 (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Calato, the quartet of Javier Areal Vélez, Jorge Espinal, Agustín Genoud and Pablo Verón based in Buenos Aires, formed in 2010 as an improvisation and experimental composition group exploring music notation and graphic scores in convergence with free improvisation, performing on prepared electric guitars, drums, sampler and amplified voice, here taking on two works by John Cage: Variations I-III, and Four6. |
![]() Fields, Scott Ensemble: The Songs of Steve Dalachinsky (Ayler -- France ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Irish guitarist and composer Scott Fields has worked with the poems of late New York writer Steve Dalachinsky over the years, here bringing together an ensemble of improvisers, electronic and contemporary classical performers to set a suite of six poems by Dalachinsky sung by soprano Barbara Schachtner, with interludes between each weaving them into a larger and satisfying opus. |
![]() Nitsch, Hermann: Das Orgien Mysterien Theater - Musik des 6 Tage Spiels 2022 [2 CDs] (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Recorded in Schloss Prinzendorf shortly after the passing of composer and artist Hermann Nitsch, this realization of his six-day play festival of the Orgien Mysterien Theater, an aesthetic ritual of the glorification of existence, merging art, photography and color together, the music an essential element derived from the interplay of sound and colour through harmony or dissonance. |
![]() Lucier, Alvin: One Arm Bandits (Important Records -- USA ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Using only their right arms and never fingering the strings with their left hand, this recording of Alvin Lucier's "One Arm Bandits" was recorded in Lucier's own dining room, the hour-long piece in four parts exploring the relationship between bow direction changes and shifts in phase, scored for four cellists and performed by Tyler J. Borden, Laura Cetilia, Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann. |
![]() Dykstra, Jordan / Brian McOmber: Blow the Man Down (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Editions Verde -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A powerful set of succint compositions, themes and sea shanties for the soundtrack for Danielle Krudy and Bridget Savage Cole's film Blow the Man Down , scored through the collaboration of composers Jordan Dykstra, who also performs on viola, piano, prepared piano, vibraphone & percussion, and Brian Mcomber, who also performs on keyboards and percussion. |
![]() Dykstra, Jordan: Stressings (Editions Verde -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Exploring diverse landscapes and moments of extreme behavior changes through a single acoustic viola, composed and performed by Jordan Dykstra, in four pieces that vary his approach to the instrument through overlapping tones, drones, extended techniques and rolling cycles, performed in California at the California Institute of the Arts and at the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana. |
![]() Dykstra, Jordan: A Known Unknown [CDr w/ Score Booklet] (Editions Verde -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A fascinating conceptual work on CD and printed score that attempts to sonically represent celestial events through guided improvisations, providing the performers an abstract of the main musical ideas and options on how to execute them, exploring microtonal sounds, harmonic interactions and sound as moments within physical boundaries, here in a studio realization in Zurich. |
![]() Dykstra, Jordan: Globes (Original Soundtrack Album) (Editions Verde -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The original score composed by Brooklyn violist and multi-instrumental Jordan Dykstra for the documentary movie Globes directed by Nina de Vroome, exploring the relationship between bees and humans through their history and affect on the global economy and our cultures, realized in a diverse set of contemporary musical forms from orchestral to electronica. |
![]() Pospieszalski, Marek Octet: No Other End Of The World Will There Be (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Continuing his project dedicated to 20th century Polish composers, saxophonist Marek Pospieszalski leads his creative octet through open and collectively improvised arrangements of works from six Polish female composers — Barbara Buczek, Elżbieta Sikora, Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil and Marta Ptaszyńska — in wide-ranging and often startling impressions of the original works. |
![]() Sharp / Lopez / Kaiser / Amendola: Minus X - A Tribute to Iannis Xenakis (Erototox -- USA ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock A tribute to the music of composer Iannis Xenakis through 12 new works referencing and reconstructing the original works of Xenakis, the title of each piece an anagram that reflects the elements of its source, realized by Elliott Sharp on bass, guitars & synth, Brandon Lopez on bass guitars and mandocello, Henry Kaiser on guitars and Scott Amendola on drums & percussion. |
![]() Nagano, Sana / Leonor Falcon: Peach and Tomato (577 Records -- USA ) Price: $16.00 ![]() ![]() In Stock Using members of the violin family augmented with effects, NY violinist Sana Nagano and violist Leonor Falcon pay homage to Prokofiev's Sonata for Two Violins and Bela Bartok's Etudes 1 & 2, reinterpreted for modern contemporary approaches, alongside new compositions from both Nagano & Falcon that show their virtuosic talents and playful attitude to performance. |
![]() Ogawa, Michiko / Lucy Railton: Fragments Of Reincarnation (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A single-movement work for sho, Hammond organ and cello, jointly realized by Berlin-based collaborators, Tokyo contemporary and experimental musician & composer Michiko Ogawa, and British cellist & composer Lucy Railton, whose work bridges experimental electronic and electroacoustic practice, here exploring the combinations of different tuning systems inherent in their instruments. |
![]() Guy, Barry Blue Shroud Band: All This This Here (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!) -- Poland ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The title and text drawn from Samuel Beckett's last poem and meditation on language, "what is the word" and also his "Brief Dream", plus a poem from Barra O Seaghdha and two 18th century Edo Haikus, Barry Guy's exquisite work about life in transit through eight movements is performed with a stellar ensemble including Agusti Fernandez, Maya Homburg, Lucas Niggli, Percuy Pursgolve, &c. |
![]() Krausbauer, John / David Maranha: John Krausbauer & David Maranha [7'' VINYL] (Public Eyesore -- USA ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A minimalist work in the tradition of Tony Conrad and Henry Flynt, John Cale or La Monte Young, West Coast-based composer and multi-instrumentalist John Krausbauer performing on an amplified violin and Portuguese experimental/drone artist David Maranha (Osso Exótico) performing on electric organ present two emphatic and rich compositions of interacting tone and texture. |
![]() Summers, Sarah-Jane : Echo Stane (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Performing solo on the Hardanger fiddle, a Scottish folk instrument for which Sarah-Jane Summers holds a masters degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music, the composer and improviser entered the studio to develop these nine experimental pieces, reworking each piece into its fascinating blend of modern contemporary music that harkens back to folk tradition. |
![]() Cizej, Domen : Introducing [5 CDs] (Clean Feed -- Portugal ) Price: $23.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock An introduction to Amsterdam-based percussionist and composer Domen Cizej through five studio-recorded CDs of differing configurations of his ensembles, one album each from the 8-piece Domen Cizej Percussion Ensemble, the trio Domen Cizej Koška Čias, the Domen Cizej Duo and Trio, and Cizej solo; a set of diverse and upbeat settings with liner notes by Joe Morris. |
![]() Pateras, Anthony: A Dread of Voids (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two works written for a group of Australian performers living in Berlin--Jon Heilbron, Rebecca Lane, Jess Aszodi & Sam Dunscombe--by Australian composer and pianist Anthony Pateras, A Dread Of Voids developed for a residency at the Archipel Festival in Geneva after enduring a pandemic quarantine; and Patterned Language, composed for the Astra Chamber Music Society. |
![]() Feldman, Morton / Apartment House: Violin and String Quartet [2 CDs] (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $23.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock One of New York School minimalist composer Morton Feldman's later works, this extended composition spread across two CDs invokes waves of beautifully suspended, weaving strings from four violinists and cello, performed by the UK Apartment House ensemble violinists Mira Benjamin, Chihiro Ono, Amalia Young & Bridget Carey and cellist Anton Lukoszevieze. |
![]() Eastman, Julius: The N*gger Series (Box Version) [VINYL 2 LPs] (Blume -- Italy ) Price: $68.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Reissuing Blume record's 2018 double album of New York avant composer Julius Eastman's "N****r Series" "Evil N****r" (1979) "Gay Guerilla" (1980) and "Crazy N****r", now in a deluxe wooden box set edition with a 12-page booklet with the original liner notes by Mary Jane Leach and Bradford Bailey, a new 2500 word essay by Bailey, as well as unseen pictures and a poster. |
![]() Machinefabriek w/ Monika Bugajny: Recytle (Machinefabriek -- The Netherlands ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock After working with clarinetist Monika Bugajny on his + album, composer & electronic artist Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek, joined again with Bugajny for a set of eight reconstructions of classical works from Debussy, Messiaen, Brahms, Stravinsky, &c., each reinterpreted work cleverly composed from Bugajny's recording of the original composition. |
![]() Eastman, Julius: Femenine [VINYL 2 LPs] (Frozen Reeds -- Finland ) Price: $44.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The premiere of late composer Julius Eastman's work for an eclectically orchestrated chamber ensemble, presented in 1974 at Composers Forum in Albany, NY, a uniquely joyful and absorbing work rendered in this original inspired performance that continues to bring interest to Eastman's work, now remastered by Jim O'Rourke and released in a deluxe double LP gatefold edition. |
![]() Weber, Katharina: In Marta's Garden (Intakt -- Switzerland ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Magnificent and succinct compositions merging contemporary and improvised approaches in powerfully elegant ways from Swiss pianist Katharina Weber, performing solo in the studio in 2022, presenting seventeen original compositions and two by György Kurtág, including pieces dedicated to Kurtág and Marta Kurtág, along with dedications to Heinz Holliger, Roland Moser, Gertrud Schneider, &c. |
![]() Cooper, Jack (feat. Alexander Hawkins & members of Apartment House: Arrival [CASSETTE + DOWNLOAD] (Astral Spirits -- USA ) Price: $8.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A delicate work of experimental chamber music from UK composer Jack Oliver Cooper (Modern Nature) performed by pianist Alexander Hawkins, cellist Anton Lukoszevieze and clarinetist Heather Roche, Arrival is delineated into twelve dovetailed parts that explore minimalism, patience and restraint; thoughtful music that rewards in close contemplation. |
![]() Soderberg, Peter: String Dialogues (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A collection of six duo recordings from musician, composer, and improviser Peter Soderberg, investigating different tuning systems and the idea of hybrid instruments, recording with Katt Hernandez (violin), Stina Hellberg Agback (harp), Mats Persson (clavichord), Sten Sandell (piano), My Hellgren (cello) and Vilhelm Bromander (contrabass). |
![]() Parker, William: Conversations IV [BOOK] (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $44.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The fourth book in New York improvising bassist William Parker's interview with other improvisers, here with 29 interviews, and 24 works of art by Jeff Schlangler; interviews include Peter Brötzmann, Darius Jones, Ava Mendoza, Zeena Parkins, Tom Rainey, Bobby Zankel, Evan Parker, James Brandon Lewis, Micheal Bisio, Mario Pavone, Taylor Ho Bynum, &c. |
![]() Musicworks: #145 Summer 2023 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Summer 2023 issue of Canada's finest music magazine covering contemporary improvised, composed and experimental music, with Simone Schmidt's Audible Songs of Defiant Meaning on the cover, plus features on Nicole Mitchell and Coco Elysses, Levy Lorenzo, Wayne Lavallee, along with recorded & live reviews, and a 10-track CD with pieces from the artist within. |
![]() Vicente-Sandoval, Dafne / Lars Petter Hagen: Minos Circuit / Transfiguration 4 [VINYL] (Portraits GRM -- France ) Price: $26.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A split LP from two sound and electroacoustic artists: Paris bassoonist Dafne Vicente-Sandoval deconstructs the instrument itself using an electro-acoustic device that generates feedback, developing compositions from those explorations; and Norwegian Lars Petter Hagen revisits Richard Strauss's Metamorfosen through decay and fragmentation of its musical lines. |
![]() Sijstermans, Germaine : Betula [2 CDs] (elsewhere -- USA ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The solo debut album from Dutch composer & clarinetist Germaine Sijstermans: seven recent contemplative works in a Wandelweiser vein, composed between 2017-2019 and performed with six exemplary and complementary performers: Antoine Beuger (concert flute), Rishin Singh (trombone), Johnny Chang (viola), Fredrik Rasten (guitar, ebow), and Leo Svirsky (accordion). |
![]() Sijstermans, Germaine / Koen Nutters / Reinier van Houdt : Circles, Reeds, and Memories (elsewhere -- USA ) Price: $12.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Composer & clarinetist based in Heerlen, Netherlands, Germaine Sijstermans, in a collaborative work with fellow Dutch composers and performers, Reinier van Houdt performing primarily on Indian harmonium and Koen Nutters on harmona organ, both employing field recordings, tapes, objects and sine waves in this peacefully meditative 2022 concert at Savelberg Chapel. |
![]() Frey, Jurg / Quatuor Bozzini / Konus Quartett : Continuite, Fragilite, Resonance (elsewhere -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Continuity, Fragility, Resonance is an extended compositions by Jürg Frey orchestrated for an octet of a string quartet and a saxophone quartet, here recorded after the 2021 premier of the work in a 2022 3-day recording session in Bern, Switzlerland in the presence of the composer at the Auditorium of Zentrum Paul Klee; gorgeous and delicate. |
![]() Di Domenico, Giovanni / Silvia Tarozzi / Emmanuel Holterbach: L'Occhio Del Vedere (elsewhere -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock During an artistic residency at the GMEA in Albi, France, composer & pianist Giovanni Di Domenico recorded with the trio of violinist Silvia Tarozzi and percussionist Emmannuel Holterbach performing on a large frame drum, completing the piece into this mysteriously insinuating and lovely triptych where sparse melodies emerge & submerge into a multidimensional expanse. |
![]() Frey, Jurg / Reinier van Houdt: Lieues d'Ombres (3CDs) (elsewhere -- USA ) Price: $28.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Translating to League of Shadows, Swiss composer Jürg Frey's sublime twilight compositions for solo piano are performed by Dutch pianist Reinier van Houdt, presenting seven of Frey's works written from 1984-2018, including one previously unreleased composition, in all 20 movements spread over 3 CDs ranging in time from 1:47 to 40:34, a significant addition to both musician's oeuvres. |
![]() Beuger, Antoine / Anastassis Philippakopoulos: Floating By (erstwhile -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Wandelweiser founder and composer Antoine Beuguer and French composer Anastassis Philippakopoulos in a work for voice (Philippakopoulos) and breath (Beuguer), employing spaces of silence against utterance and sibilant expression, a patiently developing work that floats by in deceptively simple ways, captivating through each articulation that seems perfectly placed. |
![]() Denzler, Bertrand (Beliah / Heilbron / Majkowski / Shirey): Low Strings (Confront -- UK ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Following an exploration of the double bass in his 2018 Confront release Basse Seul, Swiss-French composer and saxophonist Bertrand Denzler again jumps into the deep end again with a quartet of accomplished double basssists--Sebastien Beliah, Jon Heilbron, Mike Majkowski, Derek Shirley--for two extended works of encompassing low-register tones. |
![]() Names, The (Nutters / Frasch / Khorkhordina / Park / Tolimieri): The Alte M unze Sessions (Waveform Alphabet -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Giving homage to creative musicians before them, the Berlin quintet of Koen Nutters (upright bas), Heather Frasch (flute), Carina Khorkhordina (trumpet), Han-earl Park (electric guitar) and Quentin Tolimieri (bass & soprano melodica)--explore the notion of integrating open improvisations around melody and modal harmonies into a post-musical, conceptual, and social framework. |
![]() Donatoni, Franco / Iannis Xenakis / Xavier Bonfill / Thanos Chrysakis / Tim Hodgkinson : Music For Trombones, Bass Clarinets & Horn (Aural Terrains -- UK ) Price: $16.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Five interpretations of works by contemporary composers Franco Donatoni, Iannis Xenakis, Xavier Bonfil, Thanos Chrysakis and Tim Hodgkinson performed by a stellar set of performers in varying configurations, including bass clarinetist Jason Adler, trombonist Christian Larsen, bass clarinetist Yoni Silver, clarinetist Hodgkinson, horn player Julian Faultless, &c. |
![]() Radigue, Eliane: Naldjorlak [2 CDs] (Saltern -- USA ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A live recording in 2020 at AXART in Los Angeles of Eliane Radigue's first acoustic composition, investigating the physical properties of resonating bodies and dynamic systems, composed in 2005 in collaboration with West Coast cellist Charles Curtis, who also performed on the original 2006 recording at Rglise de Notre-Dame de Bon Secours in Paris that is included in this 2-CD set. |
![]() Frith, Fred And Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles: Something About This Landscape For Ensemble (Sub Rosa -- Belgium ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Commissioned by and recorded during the 2018 Ars Musical Festival, Fred Frith composed this work while under the inspiration of his residency at Lou Harrison's straw-bale house in the desert at Joshua Tree, CA, then performed with the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, along with two very unique improvisations, one recorded during the dress rehearsal and then again in concert. |
![]() Frith, Fred And Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles: Something About This Landscape For Ensemble [VINYL] (Sub Rosa -- Belgium ) Price: $28.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Commissioned by and recorded during the 2018 Ars Musical Festival, Fred Frith composed this work while under the inspiration of his residency at Lou Harrison's straw-bale house in the desert at Joshua Tree, CA, then performed with the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, along with two very unique improvisations, one recorded during the dress rehearsal and then again in concert. |
![]() Democ, Adrian: Neha (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Neha, the Slovakian word for tenderness, is expressed by composer Adrián Demoč in this lovely and gentle work performed by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; and "Popínavá hudba", written for the international symphony orchestra for new music, Ostrava New Orchestra, referencing the growth of climbing plants through an alluring melodic line that shifts and spreads in direction. |
![]() Granberg, Magnus: Evening Star, Vesper Bell (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Written for and performed by the UK ensemble Apartment House, composer & performer Magnus Granberg's latest work reduces his working size from the larger Skogen ensemble to this sextet, opening new possibilities for composed structures that incorporate improvisation, in a work structured around components from Schubert's Abendbilder and So in Love by Cole Porter. |
![]() Oliveros, Pauline / Apartment House: Sound Pieces (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Six sound-oriented compositions for acoustic ensemble performed by the UK ensemble Apartment House, beautifully reflective and rich works, the first six pieces being text scores for open instrumentation, along with Peace/Tree, a seven movement work for violin, cello and piano that specifies pitches while leaving room for interpretation and improvisation. |
![]() Crane, Laurence : Natural World (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A work for voice, piano and electronics from experimental composer Laurence Crane, working with the closely associated UK ensemble Apartment House, Natural World is in three sections--"Field Guide", "Chorus" and "Seascape"--with vocalist Juliet Fraser and pianist & electronic artist Mark Knoop, Crane's work describing the natural world and portending the fragility of our ecosystems. |
![]() Naegelen / Gaillard / Arnaud-Cremon / Maisonneuve: Cartographie de rythmes #2 - Cardiaque (Umlaut Records/Athenor les Editions -- France ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The second part of Umlaut's Cartographie de rythmes, a sound exploration guided by an imaginary map of rhythm, here investigating the relationship between text and music through mysteriously breathing clarinet lines & harmonics by Fabrice Arnaud-Cremon, and patient narration by Julien Gaillard, Karl Naegelen and Aurélie Maisonneuve. |
![]() Novembre (Hoang / Clerc-Renaud / Darrifourcq) + Marc Baron: Encore [2 CDs] (Umlaut Records -- France ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A fascinatingly structured album conceived by Romain Clerc Renaud and Antonin Tri Hoang, the first CD constructing a complex poetic form made up of multiple themes, from simple (Encore, Petit Matelot) to rapidly complex (LetCo, Klaxon), unfolding in unexpected ways; the 2nd CD restructured in the studio by Marc Baron, transforming the music into seven engrossing electroacoustic compositions. |
![]() Zethson, Alex: Terje (Supertraditional -- Sweden ) Price: $9.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two movements from a live score for the classic silent film Terje Vigen by Sjöström composed and produced by Swedish pianist & keyboardist Alex Zethson (Angles 9, VÖ, Fire! Orchestra), two long-form tracks of dark and sombre, pulsating folk-drone featuring Norwegian vocal ensemble EMBLA plus appearances by, i.e., Christer Bothén, Kristin Amparo Sundberg and Goran Kajfeš. |
![]() Kasten-Krause, Tristan / Jessica Pavone: Images of One (Relative Pitch -- USA ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Violist Jessica Pavone and double bassist Tristan Kasten-Krause found they shared a similar aesthetic in sound and sonic structure while working together in other ensembles, their debut developed over two seasons of experimentation with string interactions of consonance and dissonance using distinct timbres and textures, heard in four patiently unfolding compositions. |
![]() Lonsdale, Eden: Clear and Hazy Moons (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Splitting the album between two ensembles, UK composer Eden Lonsdale's beautifully languid compositions are performed first by Apartment House, and then by the young Rothko Collective, the four pieces showing Lonsdale's development of writing for harmony, timbre and resonance into works focused on the passing of time and the integration of prominent melodic elements. |
![]() Baldini, Marco : Vesperi (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Influenced by the seemingly contradictory sources of 16th century Italian composers and their polyphonic compositions, Eliane Radigue, and North Indian classical, Italian composer Marco Baldini's beautifully dark works employ a slow, rarefied pace and subdued dynamics with a fascination for pianissimo playing, heard in eight chamber compositions for low strings and marimba. |
![]() Kettlitz, Friedrich : Rabolgs Bergwand [4 CDs] (Euphorium -- Germany ) Price: $24.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Having collaborated with EUPHORIUM_freakestra and Gunter Baby Sommer, narrator and actor Friedrich Kettlitz presents a 4-CD set of sound poetry using a language that pretends to be German but expands upon his native tongue, his deep voice carrying innuendo, humor, seriousness and articulate expression that fascinates regardless of the listener's own language. |
![]() Musicworks: #144 Winter 2022/2023 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The Winter 2022/23 issue of Canada's most interesting music magazine including a 15-track compilation CD of new and rediscovered music from artists featured in the magazine; SLOWPITCHSOUND on the cover, plus articles on Gordon Grdina, performance artist Kite, Toronto's Audiopollination music series, sound artist Seth A Smith, live and recorded reviews, &c. &c. |
![]() Johnson, Max : When the Streets Were Quiet (New Focus Recordings -- USA ) Price: $14.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Better known for his bass work with his own free jazz trio and quartet, or as a sideman for Simon Nabatov, Chris Pitsiokis, &c. this album reveals another facet to the musician, presenting a chamber music album of strings, reeds and piano, where his role as composer and conductor brings life to works with references to Messiaen & Kafka. |
![]() Eno, Brian Performed by Dedalus Ensemble : Discreet Music / Music For Airports / Tuesday Afternoon [2 CDs] (Sub Rosa -- Belgium ) Price: $22.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock The French Dedalus Ensemble render three works from the ground-breaking ambient work of Brian Eno--Discreet Music (1975), Music for Airports (1978), and Thursday Afternoon (1985)--performed as an 11-piece acoustic ensemble and remaining faithful to the introspectively intelligent intention and peaceful elegance of Eno's original electronic works. |
![]() Eno, Brian Performed by Dedalus Ensemble : Discreet Music / Music For Airports / Tuesday Afternoon [2 LPs] (Sub Rosa -- Belgium ) Price: $29.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The French Dedalus Ensemble render three works from the ground-breaking ambient work of Brian Eno--Discreet Music (1975), Music for Airports (1978), and Thursday Afternoon (1985)--performed as an 11-piece acoustic ensemble and remaining faithful to the introspectively intelligent intention and peaceful elegance of Eno's original electronic works. |
![]() Eastman, Julius: Two Extended Pieces For Four Pianos [VINYL 2 LPs] (Sub Rosa -- Belgium ) Price: $36.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Four European pianists--Nicolas Horvath, Melaine Dalibert, Stephane Ginsburgh, Wilhem Latchoumia--perform New York legendary and radical avant composer Julius Eastman's powerful works for four pianists: the provocatively titled "Crazy Nigger" and "Evil Nigger", reflecting the biased culture he faced, written around 1980 using his organic principle of composition. |
![]() Marchetti, Lionel & Decibel New Music Ensemble: Inland Lake (le lac interieur) (Room40 -- Australia ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock The 2nd album collaboration between French music concrète composer Lionel Marchetti and the Australian chamber ensemble Decibel directed by flute and wind player Cat Hope, performing two works by Marchetti--"Inland Lake" and "La Patience"-- works for strings, winds, piano, percussion and radio, integrated in the studio with Marchetti's synthetics, tape and electronic manipulations. |
![]() Conrad, Tony / Arnold Dreyblatt / Jim O'Rourke: Tonic 19-01-2001 [VINYL] (Black Truffle -- Australia ) Price: $32.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock In 2001 the trio of Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt and Jim O'Rourke performed an extended improvisation at a concert organized by David Weinstein at Manhattan's experimental concert space Tonic, each artist presenting a solo work followed by this incredible work of ecstatic integrated drone, texture and harmonic interaction from immensely intertwining strings. |
![]() Denyer, Frank: Melodies [2 CDs] (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $19.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock First recordings of composer Frank Denyer's "Melodies" series from the mid-1970s, arising from his ethnomusicological studies that explored the concept of what makes up a melody, or a note, creating a series of compositions with melodies of one note, then two, building up to a final work of 14- and 15-note melodies; includes a 24 page booklet by Denyer detailing the concept. |
![]() Marclay, Christian: Christian Marclay Book (RP EDITIONS -- USA ) Price: $49.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Published on the occasion of Christian Marclay's major survey at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, this extensively illustrated volume of images and writing explores in depth Marclay's popular and influential multimedia art, from performances in the 1970s to his iconic Guitar Drag (2000) and large-scale video installations such as All Together (2018). |
![]() Ferreyra, Beatriz: Senderos de luz y sombras [VINYL] (Recollection GRM -- Austria ) Price: $27.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Translating to Paths of Light and Shadows, Argentine electronic composer Beatriz Ferreyra's 16-channel piece is inspired by astrophysics, the mystery of the pre-Big Bang era and uncanny motions of the unconscious mind; a major work of exploration through electronics and acoustic transformation, presented in two parts: "Abysmal Paths" and "Forgotten Paths". |
![]() Duplant, Bruno: Le Jour D'apres (Sublime Retreat -- Poland ) Price: $10.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A dark journey into a nocturnal world of synthetic tones and urban environments, emerging from footsteps and impressions of the passing world imbued through vaporous and skewed progressions, like moonlight piercing through a veil, from French composer and electroacoustic artist Bruno Duplant in an extended work dedicated to Belgian pianist Guy Vandromme. |
![]() Cutler, Chris: It Makes Sense To Me [2 CDs] (ReR Megacorp -- UK ) Price: $17.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock An excellent 50 year overview of the work of drummer & composer Chris Cutler, best known for his work with Henry Cow and his label ReR Megacorp, but also heard here in groupings including Art Bears, Cassiber, News From Babel, Aqsak Mabou, Duck and Cover, Peter Blegvad, Rene Lussier, The Work, Pere Ubu, The (ec) Nudes, Domestic Stories, Cutler/Frith, Cutler/Parkins, &c. |
![]() Ogura, Miharu: Ogura Plays Stockhausen [2 CDS + DOWNLOAD] (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $21.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock A double CD of Japanese pianist Miharu Ogura's performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Klavierstücke I-XI for solopiano, recorded at the MONOPIANO festival in 2021, bringing to a pinnacle her fascination with Stockhausen's unique approach to this set of compositions, captured in her second live performance after a concert in Tokyo in the same year. |
![]() Teruggi, Daniel: Sphaera [VINYL] (Recollection GRM -- Austria ) Price: $27.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Italian electroacoustic composer and former directed of the French GMR studio Daniel Teruggi is heard in four major and spectacular acousmatic works from the 1980s into the 2000s: "Space of Mind (2004)" in four movements; "Birds (2006)" in five moments; "Transmutations (2009)" in five movements; and the earlier "Terra" exploring the four fundamental substances. |
![]() Quatuor Bozzini: Eliane Radigue : Occam Delta XV (Collection QB -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 ![]() ![]() Out of Stock Translating her concepts from the electronic realm into acoustic, composer Eliane Radigue used an oral compositional process with the Montreal string quartet Quatuor Bozzini, for whom this work is dedicated, allowing each performance a uniqueness through sustained tones, microbeats and emerging harmonies, creating a profoundly meditative and rich work. |
![]() Nevai, Nandor / Peter Evans / Steve B / Ron Stabinsky: Trigesisextet for Brass + Gospel Power Walls (Psykomanteum -- USA ) Price: $15.95 ![]() ![]() In Stock Two large-scale compositions from "Through-Composer of Brutal Classical" Nandor Nevai, scored for 35 brass players and a vocalist, accomplished through 10 layers of Peter Evans (trumpet, piccolo trumpet), 9 of Steve B (tenor trombone), 7 of Ron Stabinsky (bass trombone) and 10 of Nevai himself on tenor trombone & voice; plus "Gospel Power Walls" for a chorus of 5 (bad) people. |
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Feldman, Morton (Judith Wegmann): Triadic Memories [2 CDs]
Feldman, Morton (Judith Wegmann / Andreas Kunz): For John Cage [2 CDs]
Feldman, Morton (Philip Thomas): Piano [5 CD BOX SET]
Cage, John: Klang der Wandlungen [3 CDs]
Frey, Jurg: String Quartet No. 3 / Unhorbare Zeit
Houben, Eva-Maria : Ensemble Works [2 CDS]
Smith, Linda Catlin : Dirt Road
Feldman, Morton / Apartment House: Piano and String Quartet
Smith, Linda Catlin : Drifter [2 CDs]
Akchote / Halvorson / Frisell: Loving Highsmith [2 CDs]
Frey, Jurg: Ephemeral Constructions
Smith Quartet with John Tilbury: Morton Feldman: Music for Piano and Strings Volume 3 [DVD-AUDIO]
Riley, Terry played by John Tilbury: Keyboard Studies
Lamb, Catherine / Harmonic Space Orchestra: Prisma Interius VII 7 VIII
Frey, Jurg : Collection Gustave Roud [2 CDs]
Frey, Jurg: Circles and Landscapes - works for solo piano played by Philip Thomas
Ichiyanagi, Toshi with Eye Music: Sapporo
Cage, John / Apartment House: Number Pieces [4-CD BOX SET]
Zethson, Alex Ensemble: Some Of Them Were Never Unprepared
Frey, Jurg: Fields, Traces, Clouds