Drift
Five chamber works by James Opstad, played by Apartment House, the GBSR Duo & clarinettist Heather Roche. James Opstad is probably better known as the double bassist with Apartment House than as a composer. But this should change with this release, the first CD of his music as a composer. Five beautiful pieces tracking the evolution of Opstad's work as it moves from textural electro-acoustic music to pieces exploring the layering of instruments playing at slightly different tempi: "Eluvium marke…
The Willow Bends and So Do I
Another Timbre presents The Willow Bends and So Do I, a new work from Swedish composer Magnus Granberg, performed by his long-running ensemble Skogen. Known for their subtle explorations of time, fragility, and sonority, Granberg and Skogen craft music that hovers between composition and improvisation, weaving delicate structures that unfold with profound patience.
At the heart of this recording lies Granberg’s distinctive method of filtering fragments of historical repertoire through a contem…
Crypte
Japanese guitarist Tsunehito Tsuchihashi, celebrated for his versatile artistry across both classical and contemporary repertoires, proudly presents his debut solo album, “Crypte.” This extraordinary recording, released in April 2025, brings together the visionary works of five contemporary composers, most written on commission and premiered by Tsuchihashi himself, showcasing his commitment to expanding the guitar’s expressive potential through innovative collaborations.
“Crypte” is a testament …
Shiniti Ueno, Phonix Réflexion, Joji Yuasa, Akio Yasuraoka, Yori-Aki Matsudaira, Malika Kishino, Norio Fukushi
Music For Percussion Ensemble By Japanese Composers*2025 stock* Renowned percussionist Shiniti Uéno unveil this latest recording project: Music for Percussion Ensemble by Japanese Composers. This remarkable album offers a profound exploration of Japan’s contemporary music landscape, highlighting the diversity, refinement, and innovation that can be found in its modern percussion repertoire.
The recording showcases six visionary composers whose works have shaped and expanded the language of percussion music in Japan: Joji Yuasa, Akio Yasuraoka,…
Orient Orientation
*2025 stock* A new recording brings together the refined artistry of Japanese composer Jo Kondo, the visionary musicians of Ensemble Nomad, and the distinct pianism of Satoko Inoue in a captivating exploration of sound, texture, and form. Orient Orientation offers a rare and illuminating entry into Kondo’s world, where silence, resonance, and subtle contrasts guide the listener through an intimate sonic landscape.
The album presents works that showcase Kondo’s unique compositional language—mar…
Seasons
Live recording from the “Yuji Takahashi Piano Recital: Bach and Cage” held at Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall on 30 May 1974. Originally released on LP in 1977, this work is now reissued on CD and for download. The Cage works include: Cheap Imitation, employing chance operations; Metamorphoses, an early work utilising serial manipulation; and The Seasons, ballet music choreographed by Merce Cunningham expressing India's traditional seasonal perspective. In Bach's Toccata No. 2 in C minor, two di…
Studi preparatori per la fine del mondo
2010 release ** ZeitLet is a variable organism with multiple line ups, ranging from small ensembles to the full ten element electric chamber group. The band started as a mixed ensemble with a composer/electronic musician, an electric guitarist and a bass player meeting a flute player, a violinist and a cello player in February 2005. between 2006 and 2007 the project grew bigger, and more articulated. The presence of musicians coming from different backgrounds meant starting a dialogue between t…
Pachmann: The Mythic Pianist 1907-1927 Recordings
2001 release ** "From the G&Ts of 1907 to the Victors of 1927 the troublesome genius of Vladimir de Pachmann lives once again in Arbiter’s well-chosen compilation. His vertiginous rise to fame and his equally precipitate decline are the stuff of legend, no less so than his concert antics, his audience-lecturing and indeed record-buying lecturing (one of the famed "music and comment" discs is included here, a late HMV). Pachmann followed such as Anton Rubinstein as one of the titans of the keyboa…
Found Keys
Found Keys is the debut album by American artist Ruth Maine. Although Ruth has been playing and composing music for over two decades, this is the first time she decided to record some of her varied compositions and share them with the public. But in times when it is the norm to clamour for attention, she prefers to go the opposite way. Ruth likes to let her music speak for itself and stay in the shadows.
The 16 short piano pieces heard on this album, each about two to three minutes long, were re…
Carnaval 2
Adding to their already singular catalog of releases, Three:Four Records returns with Carnaval 2, a stunning new work by the composer Alessandro Bosetti, performed by pianist Reinier van Houdt. A vividly conceptual and post-modern hybrid, reinterpreting Robert Schumann's Carnaval as a radically reconsidered series of piano and electro-acoustic interludes - forcing the sensibilities and aesthetics of 19th Century chamber music to coexist with those of avant-garde - it's easily one of the singular…
Cassotto
*200 copies limited edition* On October 10, Brussels-based accordionist Suzan Peeters releases her debut album 'Cassotto' on the Belgian label blickwinkel. With 'Cassotto', she opens a door into a hidden chamber of sound. The title refers to the “cassotto” — a small resonating chamber inside the accordion that warms, softens, and deepens its tone. Listening to this record feels as if you’ve stepped into that room yourself, enveloped in a world where intimacy and grandeur collide. Although this i…
Aeris
Aeris is the ninth ECM New Series album to feature the vibrant and highly expressive music of Erkki-Sven Tüür. Olari Elts, a long-time champion of Tüür’s compositions, conducts the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in compelling, intensely-focused performances of Phantasma, De Profundis and Tüür’s tenth symphony ÆRIS, a vast drama of shifting energies and interactions, which is scored for horn quartet and orchestra. The symphony is in four movements that transition seamlessly. Tüür: “Each mov…
In Memoriam Alvin Lucier
The influence of Alvin Lucier’s work on acoustic phenomena and the interplay between sound and space is difficult to overstate. His legacy continues to echo through the work of countless composers and sound artists today. Lucier’s music is marked by a sense of childlike wonder and sonic simplicity - shifting our perception from what we hear to how we listen.At the heart of his compositions lies the sine wave: the purest, most elemental form of sound. Clarinetist Dries Tack pays tribute to this …
A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever
Kara-Lis Coverdale returns to Smalltown Supersound with her fourth full-length album, A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever, a collection of nine pieces, dedicated to solo piano. Known for her musical innovations at the intersection of experimental electronics and minimalist traditions, Coverdale’s previous albums Aftertouches, Grafts and, most recently, From Where You Came (Smalltown Supersound) garnered special acclaim for their deep exploration of timbre. On A Series of Actions in a Sphe…
The Music Of Katharina Weber, Jack Callahan, Alex Goretzki & Alfred Zimmerlin
2016 release **
"This release by Edition Wandelweiser Records collects recent compositions by Katharina Weber, Jack Callahan, Alex Goretzki, and Alfred Zimmerlin, performed by Christian Buck on guitar and Christian Wolfarth on percussion. It opens with Callahan’s ‘New Piece’, beginning with quiet feedback and low rumble before moving on to evenly spaced chords, cymbals, and soft beats. There’s an ambiguity or uncertainty to these sounds, or to my hearing of them, in terms of their harmony and ti…
On Foot
2011 release **
"Shepard, in 2005, set himself the task of hiking 250 miles across Switzerland, composing a new piece each day (performing it as well, in some public setting). Six of these works are collected here, performed by various Wandelweiser-involved folk. The music has an aura of folk song to it, however attenuated, heard clearly in Christian Wolff's melodica rendition of "Crêt de la Neuve, le 20 juillet 2005" with it's gentle ups and downs, similarly the second brief track with Katie Po…
On Foot: Brooklyn
2014 release **
"Shepard walks around, often traveling impressive distances, and composes music, generally playing on route. I had previously heard the excellent documentation of his perambulation through Switzerland in 2005, "On Foot", but in 2012, he chose to navigate far more dangerous territory, namely Brooklyn, doing so for thirteen weeks, penning a composition per week and organizing on-site performances of same by varied musicians which are heard here, usually along with the environmental…
Number Pieces (Piano)
2018 release **
"Two versions of Cage's 'One' and one of his 'One5' performed by pianist Guy Vandromme. 'One' was written in 1987, a ten-minute long piece for solo piano. Per the Cage Works page, the commentary is: "This work comprises 10 systems of piano chords, varying in dynamics, selected by chance. Each system is roughly 1 minute long, and all but one is flexible. Each system contains 2 sets of chords. The order of each set is maintained, but the relationship between the two sets of chords …
Grand Chromatic Fantasy (Symphony) For Three Pianos
2016 release **
"In the early days of Wandelweiser records, a disc of music by the forgotten composer Herman Van San extended the label’s scope and helped to cement its aesthetic. He was composing long before there was a Wandelweiser group or label, but his outsider static and innovative music was a perfect fit. This disc of music by the all but unknown Mikheil Shugliashvili achieves a similar purpose. Born in 1941, the composer died in 1996, the year of the label’s first release, but his radi…
Ivory
*2025 stock* Born in Athens, Greek composer Zinovia Arvanitidi is best known as one half of the duo Pill-Oh in Vanishing Mirror as well as her debut solo The Gift of Affliction. Zinovia returns with her first solo piano album titled Ivory, and like its precursors, further highlights her mastery in crafting piano ambiances of austere beauty and melancholia, led by mesmerizing melodies and evolving cinematic textures. Fully self-produced, the now France-based composer navigates through her own tim…