Antifona
Following on from the wonderful "Cantilena", four new chamber works by the Paris-based Italian composer Giuliano d'Angiolini. Performers include Apartment House, Manuel Zurria, Mark Knoop and the composer.
Let Pass My Weary Guiltless Ghost
Let Pass My Weary Guiltless Ghost marks another chapter in Magnus Granberg’s ongoing exploration of the borderlands between improvisation and quietly radical chamber composition. Granberg draws from his background in saxophone and deep engagement with traditions spanning classical, folk, and the avant-garde, establishing a musical language marked by reserved urgency and gentle abstraction, performed by his dedicated ensemble Skogen.
The recording is structured to allow strings, clarinet, piano, …
Fűr Biliana
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler’s Für Biliana unfolds as a quietly powerful study in sustained resonance and tactile silence, brought to life with understated virtuosity by Biliana Voutchkova and her collaborators. Across four compositions - including the eponymous solo piece and “Glissando,” both written for Voutchkova, as well as “Duo 4 / Parallelen” and “Extension für Streichtrio” - Stiebler investigates the possibilities of sonority, repetition, and space in chamber music. His distinctive architectur…
Unfurling
Unfurling introduces a trio where established voices in contemporary experimental music - Angharad Davies, Klaus Lang, and Anton Lukoszevieze - are brought together in an environment shaped as much by deep listening as by compositional foresight. Born out of a residency and recorded during the intense yet open space of a single studio session, the album becomes a portrait of creative trust and shared focus. Throughout the 52-minute performance, each musician both asserts and dissolves their indi…
Patterns
Soprano saxophone player Sascha Armbruster, oboe player Kelsey Maiorano, clarinetist Toshiko Sakakibara, trumpeter Jens Bracher, trombonist Stephen Menotti and tuba player Janne Jakobsen gather together and record the compositions written by Norbert Moslang. “Patterns” is a new record on “Bocian” label – this album is a mix of academic avant-garde, experimental music, free improvisation and avant-garde jazz. The musicians join together different kinds of motions, expressions, styles and passions…
Approdi 2, Avanguardie Musicali a Napoli - Volume II
**300 copies** Avant-garde and experimental musics are intrinsically connected to community, collectivism, support, and collaboration. Audiences and artists, stretching to every corner of the globe, continuously rely on each other to push into ever more ambitious realms. This spirit of discourse has always been central to the multigenerational contexts of avant-garde and experimental music from Italy. For decades, neglected and over looked by their international peers, the country’s musicians an…
Grają Chopina
Małe Instrumenty (Small Instruments) are a band exploring new sounds using a wide array of small instruments. The instruments used in their sonic experiments feature an ever expanding array of professional instruments, sound toys made for children or naive in nature, strange musical inventions as well as a whole array of small items that aren't really instruments but do make a sound. The music created in this way reveals unique colours of sound sometimes beautiful and fine, sometimes surprising …
Gruppo di Construzione
Małe Instrumenty (Small Instruments) are a band exploring new sounds using a wide array of small instruments. The instruments used in their sonic experiments feature an ever expanding array of professional instruments, sound toys made for children or naive in nature, strange musical inventions as well as a whole array of small items that aren't really instruments but do make a sound. The music created in this way reveals unique colours of sound sometimes beautiful and fine, sometimes surprising …
Metamorphoses (Book I) / Five Pieces for Piano
George Crumb's earliest and most recent piano works on one CD: the first recording of Metamorphoses (Book I), ten pieces after famous paintings written for Margaret Leng Tan, and the Five Pieces for Piano (1962).
Sextet & Double Sextet
Steve Reich's Sextet (1984) and the Pulitzer Prize winning Double Sextet (2007) together on one release for the first time, played by the Danish ensemble Ekkozone under percussionist and conductor Mathias Reumert.
Kurzwellen
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kurzwellen (1968) in a new performing version by C.L.S.I. for four instruments, four shortwave radios, six computers and conductor, premiered in 2011 and conducted by Paul Mefano.
Echo.Trio.Fragile.Eyot.
**300 copies** "Taken together, these works not only trigger concentrated, deep(er) listening, making a great case for the importance of silence as a decisive and structural element, but they also stress that the line between a composition and an installation is an imaginary one, or at least much more fluid than one might think." - Guy Peters"Four remarkable avant-garde recordings, two of which document sound installations – gently inspiring." - Kevin Press, The Moderns"I easily admit I don’t kn…
Desert Plants
Facsimile reprint of Walter Zimmermann's book Desert Plants, his interviews with American experimental composers from a 1976 trip to America, with a CD of the surviving interview recordings as MP3 files.
Klang Bilder
**Hardcover edition**In the late 1950s, avant-garde musicians were exploring new ways of expressing their experimental compositions in writing. Searching for a universal language that would reach far beyond music, they no longer considered the traditional system of musical notation as sufficient. By progressing into electronic music, as well as by linking music and performance, they blurred the boundaries between different genres and inevitably changed the notation of music. Karlheinz Stockhause…
Complete Piano Works
All of Morton Subotnick's piano music on one disc for the first time, with four first recordings, including Liquid Strata and The Other Piano with electronics, played by SooJin Anjou and supervised by the composer.
Dispersion
Elliott Sharp's Dispersion: Flexagons, Dispersion of Seeds, The Hidden Variable and Palimpsest, four processes-based works for large ensemble, played by the young musicians of Veni Academy under Marián Lejava, with Sharp on electroacoustic guitar.
The Works for Piano 10
Volume 10 of Mode's John Cage piano series, with Thomas Schultz playing Two Pieces for Piano (1935), Solo for Piano from the Concert for Piano and Orchestra, Two Pieces for Piano (1946) and Swinging (1989).
Killer Instincts
Soprano Sarah Maria Sun and The Gurks perform fifteen songs about bad people doing bad things, from Bernstein, Weill, Tom Waits and Joe Walsh to Schubert, including the first recording of Stefan Wolpe's Hitler.
Absence
Four chamber works by Gerald Eckert from 2006 to 2015, for piccolos and percussion, voices, flute and cello, and violin and contrabass clarinet with electronics, played by Ensemble L'art pour l'art, Auditivvokal and Ensemble Reflexion K.
Works for Flute
Roberto Fabbriciani plays the complete flute works of Henri Pousseur, including Flexions I, Éclipticare and Zeus joueur de flûtes with live electronics by Alvise Vidolin, plus the 1957 tape piece Scambi.