Almost Starlight
Almost Starlight is the extraordinary new album by Jem Finer (hurdy-gurdy) and John Matthias (violin). Produced by Jay Auborn and recorded in a Medieval Church, deep in the Devon countryside, in the Summer of 2025, the music is suffused with light, heat and the natural acoustics of the space.
The album defies categorisation; forced to pigeon hole it the nearest approximation would be ‘modern-classical’ but this ignores its myriad influences and explorations which encompass inspiration from Arvo …
Concern And Simplicity Volume 1: Original Recordings, 1981-1986
First archival volume of the Swiss pianist and composer Lotti Tauber: minimalist, intuitive piano music from her privately pressed albums of 1981-1986, restored and mastered by Stephan Mathieu.
Altarpiece H. af K.
A canon for three bassoons inspired by Hilma af Klint's 1915 Altarpieces: multiphonics, beating dissonances and whistle tones, between Scelsi, Radigue and Sunn O))). Produced by Randall Dunn.
Brisk
The idea for this album began taking shape in 2021 and has slowly evolved into a seven-track snapshot of Juli Deák’s musical world and artistic thinking. Coming from the challenging, refined, and often seemingly flawless sound of classical music, the flutist began redirecting her musical voice toward a much more personal space through experimentation and improvisation. What eventually grew into this project originally began as a handful of unfinished ideas—which only revealed their true meaning …
Dawning
Dawning is a collaboration between Chicago creative music mainstay Damon Locks and burgeoning Black chamber music collective D-Composed, featuring violinists Khelsey Zarraga and Anya Brumfield, violist Seth Pae, and cellist Lindsey Sharpe. The album was recorded live in the auditorium of The Land School, Rebuild Foundation’s headquarters in a reconstituted former elementary school on Chicago’s south side, where D-Composed & International Anthem have been creative partners-in-residence since its …
Golden Memories & Other Romantic Melodies
The pianist and composer Javad Maroufi (Tehran, 1925-1993) is the great interpreter of Iranian classical music. His repertoire defines a precise encounter between Western classical music and the traditional folklore of his homeland. Through his academic training, he absorbed the lessons of the works of Chopin, Mozart, Bach and Beethoven, but his refined pianism echoes and reinterprets the popular melodies of ancient Iran. A profound and delicate song of the drama of life, between joys and sorrow…
Playing Piano for Dad
Recorded in one comfortably-seated take at Studio Ferber, Paris, France in 2015 - h hunt’s ‘playing piano for dad’ was initially conceived as a Christmas gift to the composer’s father. Intimately recorded, ‘playing piano for dad’ is a heartbreakingly gorgeous & sincere work of eleven vignettes which capture even the most nuanced sounds of the recording session - the composer’s breath, the shifting sounds of the piano pedals, the ambient noise and conversation within the studio. With minimalist t…
Iris ter Schiphorst
Iris ter Schiphorst’s music combines political awareness with poetic power, sensual sonority and formal radicalism. In honour of her diverse oeuvre, the Zafraan Ensemble has released a selection of musical collaborations created for her anniversary on vinyl. A particular highlight is the recording of “Hyper-Dub” with Dirk von Lowtzow, frontman of the band Tocotronic, featuring his intense and timeless text about Berlin. Recorded at the Sendesaal Bremen, the Bonello Studios Berlin and the Nikolai…
New Orchestral Music from Mexico
Five world premiere recordings of orchestral works by Mexican composers Hilda Paredes, Ana Lara, Andrea Chamizo, Marcela Rodríguez and Georgina Derbez, with the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Scott Yoo.
Scottish Circus
Two first recordings of John Cage's Scottish Circus (1990) with the Scottish traditional group The Whistlebinkies, plus indoor and outdoor versions of 4'33" for ensemble, recorded at Inverleith House in Edinburgh on DVD with bonus interviews.
Directors
Celebrated Czech musicians Floex & Jan Šikl present Directors, a collaborative album exploring neoclassical composition, electronic experimentation and chamber ensemble performance. Across four movements, Directors reveals a musical language where classical formality and electronic spontaneity exist as equal voices due out on via Minority Records. The dream of melding classical music with contemporary music, electronic in particular has been a cherished if not always successful one – it is as if…
Feldman Edition 15: Morton Feldman Plays Feldman
Morton Feldman plays piano in a 1978 Deutschlandfunk concert recorded in Cologne, with flutist Eberhard Blum and percussionist Jan Williams: Why Patterns?, Extensions 3, Intermission 5 and The King of Denmark.
Postal Pieces 1, 2
** This bundle includes both volumes of James Tenney's "Postal Pieces" on Blume in a green cotton tote bag printed with the names of the suite's eleven dedicatees: - James Tenney "Postal Pieces" (LP, BLUME 022) - James Tenney "Postal Pieces" (LP, BLUME 027). The first volume has been sold out for a long time: the copies in this bundle come from a small return from a distributor and are the last available. **
Between 1965 and 1971, James Tenney wrote eleven short compositions on the backs of post…
Postal Pieces 2
Blume returns to James Tenney's "Postal Pieces" with a second volume: three "Swell Pieces" and "Koan", written for Alison Knowles, Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young and Malcolm Goldstein, on vinyl for the first time from one of the key suites of 20th Century avant-garde music.
Music for Strings
Three string works written between 2020 and 2023, performed by Ensemble Modern: a nonet locked in seven-eight, a piece that splits sound the way a prism splits light, and a score written in mirror notation. Ikeda's electronic precision, played on bowed strings.
Occam XIII, Occam River XI, Occam V
Three late acoustic works from Éliane Radigue's Occam cycle, written with and performed by bassoonist Dafne Vicente-Sandoval and cellist Charles Curtis: solos and a duo built on minute shifts of tone and resonance.
The Evil of Banality
Tip! Last autumn, Ni Vu Ni Connu released Fagaschinski's debut album as a sole composer, entitled Aerodynamics. The double LP features two large-scale clarinet ensemble pieces: an octet composition performed by The Paranormal Clarinet Society and a nonet multitrack conception. The 2-LP set comes housed in a gorgeous gatefold jacket and includes a booklet with extensive liner notes, photos and scores – a true feast for the eyes and ears.
The follow up and continuation of this mission arrives less…
In C - 60th Birthday Full Moon Celebration At Kiyomizu-dera Temple
Big tip! Sixty years after the groundbreaking premiere of In C forever changed the course of contemporary music, Terry Riley celebrates the work's enduring legacy with a historic live recording captured at Kyoto's Unesco World Heritage site, Kiyomizu-dera Temple.
One of the most influential composers of our time, Terry Riley has continually redefined the possibilities of music through a career marked by innovation and originality. Described by Riley himself as his signature composition, In C (19…
Metaphon / La Scie Dorée - Autumn 2026 (3LP Bundle)
Three new LPs from the two labels run by Timo van Luijk, Metaphon and La Scie Dorée, offered together.
Robert Nasveld's self-titled LP (Metaphon 029, Signature Series III) collects the only three tape pieces the Dutch pianist and radio producer ever made, realised between 1974 and 1984 at Ton Bruynèl's studio at the Utrecht Conservatory and at the Institute for Sonology: Collage voor Anja, Soundscape and I Touch You. Edition of 300 copies.
Pierre Mariétan's Musique d'été (SCIE 4126) was first pu…
A Room
Cage was in his late twenties, a Californian, who had served an unlikely apprenticeship under two of the century’s great opposites: Arnold Schoenberg, who thought him gifted but harmonically hopeless, is said to have called him “not a composer, but an inventor of genius”, and Henry Cowell whom he had watched reach inside a grand piano to pluck and sweep its strings by hand. The music on this recording follows Cage through this early decade of his life, his twenties. But this is not the music bef…