Atlas Eclipticalis - The music of John Cage & Earle Brown
The John Cage Trilogy – Inspired by Hidekazu Yoshida’s interpretations of Japanese Haiku poetry, John Cage formed a trilogy of his existing works honoring the essence of the poetry. Atlas Eclipticalis (1961), the first piece in the trilogy, represents nirvana. Variations IV (1963), the second work, represents samsara—the turmoil of everyday life. 0’00” (1962), the third piece, represents individual action. Simple Harmonic Motion Records is proud to be the first to present a realization of Cage's…
Four Systems
Four Systems (1954) is an early and influential example of Earle Brown’s open-form approach to composition. Written as a graphic score, the work replaces traditional notation with visual elements that suggest relationships of pitch, duration, dynamics, and rhythm rather than prescribing exact sounds.
Four Systems may be performed by any number of musicians using any instruments, and its duration is equally open: the piece may last as long as desired, provided the time frame is agreed upon in adv…
Dream Sequence of an Ancient Forest
Dream Sequence of an Ancient Forest gathers pieces composed between 2017 and 2023 into a continuous arc that feels less like a compilation and more like a slow, lucid dream. Across the album, Madli Marje Gildemann listens with almost scientific care to the smallest workings of the natural world – the secret exchanges of plants, the nocturnal trajectories of birds, the micro‑rhythms of an old‑growth forest – then lets imagination bloom around those observations. Her sound world is atmospheric and…
Tartiniana Seconda / Due Studi / Ciaccona, Intermezzo E Adagio / Parole Di San Paolo (LP)
Four pieces for solo (cello), duo (violin and piano) and ensemble spanning from 1945 to 1964 released on Italia in 1977.
Streichquartett / Die Jahreszeiten / Chaconne Für Violoncello Solo (LP)
Three 1979 compositions respectively for string quartet, chorus and cello solo, released on Wergo in 1979.
Il Cordovano (LP)
1987 LP on Ricordi's Italian contemporary music series with the 1958 opera in one act by the important composer and teacher (of Ennio Morricone, Franco Donatoni, Aldo Clementi and Cornelius Cardew a.o.). With insert.
Pierrot Lunaire / Ein Stelldichein / Herzgewächse / 3 Pieces For Chamber Orchestra / Nachtwandler (LP)
The epochal 1912 melodrama plus five other compositions performed by the London Sinfonietta conducted by David Atherton and released on Decca's Ace Of Diamonds in 1977.
Lied Der Waldtaube / Serenade Op. 24 / Ode To Napoleon Bonaparte Op. 41 (LP)
Three compositions by the father of the Second Viennese School performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez, Jessye Norman and John Shirley-Quirk, released by CBS Masterworks in 1982. With insert.
Loyang / Gasa / Réak / Tuyaux Sonores (LP)
Four post-serialistic "sound compositions" with elements of traditional Korean music from the 1960's, respectively for chamber ensemble, piano and violin, orchestra and solo organ, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70's. With insert.
Un Ent Los
Un Ent Los is a composition of a total of 36 electroacoustic miniatures, for which Johannes S. Sistermanns has drawn from his wide-ranging audio archive.
The material of his composed, fleeting sound moments are sounds of the numerous musical instruments he plays and their electroacoustic transformation. In addition, field recordings from the Australian outback and the soundscapes of metropolises such as Shanghai, Hong Kong or New York can be heard, as well as the diverse resonance sounds that Si…
Dialoghi del Presente
Naples, 1977. Luciano Cilio's sole recorded work is pure magic - four "quadri" where strings, woodwinds, wordless voices and solitary guitar trace the edges of silence. Closer to Arvo Pärt and Morton Feldman than to any Italian prog, yet entirely its own universe. Music that breathes, suspends time, breaks your heart without raising its voice. Decades ahead of its time. First ever remaster from the original tapes.
Piano Studies
*75 copies limited edition* Piano Studies is a set of pieces recorded on a salvaged piano body at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm. Using free-floating metal preparations and various mallets, these works use this alternative hammer escapement mechanism to coax a particular inharmonic resonance from its skeleton frame.
Opus
In the autumn of 2022, knowing his time was running out, Ryuichi Sakamoto summoned every ounce of his remaining strength to give us one last, definitive performance. Opus is that performance - a solo piano concert capturing one of the world's greatest musicians in his most vulnerable and transcendent moment. Curated and sequenced by Sakamoto himself, the twenty pieces wordlessly tell the story of his life and his vast body of work. The selection spans his entire career: from his pop-star period …
Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet
Bastille Musique presents its thirty-ninth release »Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet« featuring Florence Millet (piano) and the Jack Quartet. The album contains a new studio production of Feldman’s late Piano and String Quartet (1985). The recording, produced by the WDR, is complemented by a 48-page bilingual booklet (EN, DE) with texts by Michael Struck-Schloen, a conversation with the performers and the recording producer, autograph pages and two concertina-fold inserts with photos of…
Strata
Music aged in time, resonating from the surface to the corethrough layers and sediments of stones — the strata. Four morning recording sessions with a separation between them of between three and ten months — a chronozone that will rest for a time and on which the next one will be added, thus forming the total of the six pieces of the album — becoming six strata.
A slow-moving album that develops landscapes of subtle but continuous evolution, where we find layers of diverse nature created from d…
Glassworks
Philip Glass’s seminal 1982 album Glassworks remains one of the most influential and accessible works in contemporary classical and minimalist music, bridging the worlds of concert hall and popular listening with timeless elegance.
Originally conceived as a “Walkman‑suitable” work, Glassworks was designed for intimate, personal listening on cassette, with a special headphone‑oriented mix that brought listeners deep inside Glass’s intricate, pulsing sound world. The album’s six short, vividly con…
A Run Through The Forest
*100 copies limited edition* Ryggen Fri Records, the vinyl powerhouse from Gothenburg, Sweden, is thrilled to unveil the pre-order for A Run Through The Forest by Jukka Rintamäki – a limited edition white 180-gram vinyl pressing that's set to vanish as quickly as mist in the morning woods.
This captivating album plunges listeners into an immersive sonic landscape, where brooding atmospheres collide with raw, emotive composition work and haunting melodies. Jukka Rintamäki is known for his intrica…
Mountains Move Like Clouds
*2025 stock* Noam Bierstone’s debut album, Mountains move like clouds, features three works for solo percussionist by composers Hanna Hartman, Pierluigi Billone, and Zeynep Toraman. Each work presents a unique and evocative environment built upon the rich sonic potential of unconventional playing techniques and instruments. In Message from the Lighthouse, Bierstone assumes the role of an exciter or prober of sounds, drawing out sounds unheard from a flowerpot contraption holding antique stainles…
Il Teatro Rosso
*Comes in a digipack with a stunning poster booklet and sticker, all beautifully designed by Juliette Moal.* "A stunning and singular collaboration between the fearless Montréal ensemble and the innovative American composer Steven Kazuo Takasugi. Dizzying chamber music writing intertwines with trompe l'oreille electronic hyperrealism produce a set of feverish music that embraces both playfulness and unsettling surrealism." - Nick Storring
I Had A Dream About This Place
*2025 stock* I had a dream about this place, No Hay Banda's debut album, brings together four long-form works for chamber ensemble and electronics by four of Canada's most fascinating composers. No Hay Banda has developed deep collaborative relationships with all four composers over the years, and is thrilled to feature their work on this special release.