Le Corps De L’ouvrage
1994 release ** "Composer, performer and improviser René Lussier is one of the dominant figures in contemporary Canadian music. In 1989 he won the Paul Gilson Prize for his radio work Le Trésor de la langue which he recorded on the Ambiances Magnétiques label and which he presented in concert version in Canada and abroad. Here he presents his latest album entitled “Le corps de l’oeuvre” which is made up of a series of instrumental pieces for large and small ensembles written and refined over the…
Imaginative Reflections
2025 stock ** "The sounds on this album seem to come from another world. They spread through space, then disappear, or rather: fade away, evaporate, crystallize, settle as a sedi- ment. This music is about fading away, about reverberations, echoes. European instruments sound Asian, and Asian instruments are integrated into European art music. Xiaoyong Chen, who emigrated to Germany in 1985, once a student of composition with György Ligeti and now a professor of composition at the Hochschule fü…
Plays The New Compositions For The Eb Alto Saxophone
1995 release ** A fusion of jazz and avant-garde featuring saxophone with orchestra:Roman Palester – Concertino For Alto Saxophone And String OrchestraBrian Fenelly – Concerto For Saxophone And String OrchestraBrian Fenelly – Tesserae VIII For Solo SaxophoneAugustyn Bloch – Notes For SaxophoneJuji Yuasa – Not I, But The Wind...For Amplified Alto Saxophione
Edible Black Ink
1996 release ** "Joyous melodies, pop music textures, rhythm complexity of a Frank Zappa-sort, re-working of material quoted from Baroque-period composers, and a generous sense of humor all work together to make an interesting and entertaining collection of new works from this Los Angeles-based composer. Performed by the California Ear Unit, selections include: "The Vulture's Garden" (1990), "Edible Black Ink" (1989), "Murphy Nights" (1989), "Count Your Change" (1989), "Clean Your Gun" (1991), "…
Music For 12 / Devil's Trills / 4 Versions / Chamber Symphony
1991 release **
Elena Firsova - Music for 12 10:12Yuri Kasparov - Devil's Trills. Variations on Tartini's Theme 7:16Vladislav Shoot - 4 Versions 13:15Edison Denisov - Chamber Symphony 20.05
Dual Synthesis
*2025 stock* The third release of Tristan Perich's "Compositions" is "Dual Synthesis," a dense cascade of 1-bit electronics and harpsichord, performed by Daniel Walden. Produced, mixed and mastered by Michael Riesman.
Raoul De Smet
Big tip! *300 copies limited edition* First LP in the ‘Signature Series’, a small new series in the Metaphon catalog, documenting previously unreleased archive works of less known composers. Metaphon presents their ‘signature’ in the most personal and elementary way.
Raoul De Smet (1936), mainly known for his numerous instrumental and chamber music works, started composing in the early 1960’s. Between 1974 and 1989 he also recorded several electro-acoustic compositions at the IPEM in Ghent, one …
Untitled
These are selected forsaken recordings, demos, abandoned versions etc. of music from 2016 - 2025. Most of these pieces are going to be released in their original context.
Thank you wholeheartedly to those of you who have reached out.
Special thanks to Thorbjørn, Admeta String Quartet, L, Jeppe og Jonas.
Luigi Nono w/ Ludwig van Beethoven, First Visit
The relationship between Ludwig van Beethoven’s "op. 132 string quartet" and Luigi Nono’s "Fragmente – Stille, an Diotima" spans 155 years while sharing several conceptual dimensions – among them, their respective composers’ intense idealism in the pursuit of art as a transformational, unifying experience; their utopian visions of political and social justice; and the struggle to translate a profound personal expression into a consequential public reality. - Art Lange
Crank and Cloud Orchestral Works
One of Carola Bauckholt's major talents is the gift of attentive and passionate listening. Through persistent research, she uncovers the hidden musical potential of ambient sounds such as the gurgling of a fountain, a grinding crank, birds, dogs, construction machinery or a babbling baby, which then become the core of entire works. These sounds need a mediator like Bauckholt who translates them, thinks them through musically, and places them into often surprising contexts. This album features th…
Wunderkammer
*100 copies limited edition*
Elena D'Alò: fluteCosimo Fiaschi: soprano saxophoneLuca Venitucci: accordion, objectsSarvin Asa: celloGabriele Pagliano: prepared double bassNicholas Remondino: percussion, objectsFrancesco Toninelli: percussion, objects
Shlimazl
In the new work ''Shlimazl'' by the Swiss composer Michael Wertmüller, symphony orchestra and big band merge into a virtuoso, polymetric organism that not only transcends styles, but also a perceived linearity of time. In doing so, he explicitly takes up the rich tradition of the big band, and revitalises it within the symphonic context under new auspices and allows it to take off. All the soloists act like a picture within a picture within the big band, which oscillates between musical nucleus,…
The Rest Is Silence – Music Of Our Time
*2025 stock* "Stefan Winter, head of the Winter & Winter boutique label, has a different attitude to popularising classical music. Rather than relying on the familiarity of old favourites, he believes that contemporary classical music is more accessible than its ascetic, atonal reputation suggests, and can find an audience outside its assumed intellectual elite. Hence this compilation of excerpts from the label's catalogue…" - The Independent"Winter & Winter is something of a special case when i…
Kantrimiusik
*2025 stock* “There is freshness, there is (self) irony, there is a desire - and for once let's say it without shame - to have fun with music. [...] Nature triumphs in all its aspects: noises and sounds of birds, pouring rain, thunder, animal cries, alternating on the lines of a fiddle violin.” - Corriere di Bologna
The Mauricio Kagel Edition
"It's fascinating, and a wonderful reminder of how fresh and unique Kagel's place in the history of music in the last half-century is." - The Guardian
Playback Play
*2025 stock* Famous for his examination of unusual and exotic instrumental sounds, here Mauricio Kagel focuses on the most mundane of sound materials. While attending a music trade show, Kagel was taken by the many levels and orbits of sound activity emanating from the various booths and stages. In 'Playback Play' (subtitled 'News from the Music Fair, A Radio Piece') he has arranged a spatially sensitive tableau of crowd noises, sales pitches and fragments of the sort one hears in music store sh…
Penumbra
Four beautifully reduced duets, jointly developed by violinist Morgan Evans-Weiler and pianist J.P.A. Falzone. Music which is as delicate as a feather, but also as tough as nails.
O a | F g
Two wonderfully mysterious 20+ minute compositions for ensemble by Teodora Stepančić, played by Ordinary Affects.
Towards a slowing of the past
Virtuosic & highly-acclaimed 45-minute work for two pianos and electronics, Mark Knoop & Roderick Chadwick.
Recorded by Simon Reynell at the University of Huddersfield, October 2024. Edited & mastered by Mark Knoop. The work was commissioned with support from Hinrichsen Foundation, the Vaughan Williams Trust, and The Marchus Trust.