★Another Timbre
Landmarks
Landmarks offers an immersive, contemplative collaboration between Katelyn Clark and Isaiah Ceccarelli, presenting a suite of works that draw from both ancient and contemporary sound worlds. The duo’s backgrounds in historical keyboard and percussion…
Tehran Dust
Tehran Dust reveals Klaus Lang at his most understated and evocative, presenting a pair of pieces that meditate on the porous boundaries between sound, space, and memory. Eschewing overt drama or visual spectacle, the album envelops the listener in a…
The Pankow-Park Sessions
The Pankow-Park Sessions Vol.1 is a striking documentation of collaboration between Ernstalbrecht Stiebler and Tilman Kanitz, offering a series of works that blur distinctions between composition and improvisation in an acoustic setting. These record…
How Lonely Sits The City?
How Lonely Sits the City? by Magnus Granberg stands as a meditation on absence, fragility, and the slow unfolding of collective musical thought. Rather than foregrounding overt drama or sharp contrast, Granberg distills his process into an album-leng…
Adjacent Sound
Adjacent Sound positions Gabriel Paiuk as a composer attuned to the phenomena of perception, proximity, and the thresholds where listening itself becomes the subject. Rather than presenting a collection of isolated pieces, the album unfolds as a unif…
Discreet Angel
Discreet Angel brings to light the uniquely understated voice of Mark Ellestad, gathering three chamber works composed between the late 1980s and early 1990s. What unifies the album is its atmosphere of meditative quiet and fragile resilience, qualit…
Luft.Inneres
Luft.Inneres presents an introspective and rarefied journey through the musical world of Kunsu Shim, focusing on the delicacy and subtlety that mark his approach to sound and silence. The album is shaped less by linear progression or overt contrast t…
Songs For a Shed
Songs for a Shed is a testament to the creative evolution and gentle inventiveness of Ryoko Akama, realized in close collaboration with the musicians of Apartment House. The album unfolds as an engaging exploration of timbre, space, and melody, movin…
Ballad
In the catalog of contemporary composition, Linda Catlin Smith occupies a luminous yet quiet space. Her music resists momentum in favor of presence, exploring the beauty of slowness and the porous borders between harmony and noise. Drawing on the lin…
Me Hollywood
With Me Hollywood, Oliver Leith continues to refine his idiosyncratic vocabulary, stretching the boundary between contemporary composition, performance art, and pop absurdism. The record unfolds as a study of spectacle and sincerity, as if filtering …
Summer
With Summer, James Weeks delivers an album notable for its lucid construction and poetic intent, inviting listeners into a gently unfolding auditory landscape where form and timbre intermingle with understated elegance. Across five chamber works asse…
Best that You Do This for Me
With Best that you do this for me, Jim O’Rourke delivers a composition that redefines the boundaries of chamber music with disarming directness and subtle complexity. Commissioned by Apartment House, the piece features violin, viola, and cello - play…
Muto Infinitas
2026 Repress. In Muto Infinitas, Catherine Lamb extends her distinctive approach to microtonality and just intonation, crafting a forty-minute dialogue for quartertone bass flute and double bass performed by Rebecca Lane and Jon Heilbron. The recordi…
Sculthorpe Studies
Sculthorpe Studies marks a thoughtful and searching entry from Josten Myburgh, situating contemporary ensemble practice within a deep engagement with Australia’s sonic environment and historical legacy. Drawing direct inspiration from the harmonic la…
Hlaholika
With Hlaholika, Adrian Democ offers a collection of chamber pieces unified by a focus on stillness and the unhurried unfolding of sound. Rather than chasing after overt drama, Democ’s writing reveals itself through the subtle layering of sonorities a…
Jankélévitch Sextets
Jankélévitch Sextets brings together Antoine Beuger’s reductionist poetics and the responsive intelligence of Apartment House, resulting in a recording defined less by overt drama than by its expansive sense of space and attentive musicianship. Over …
The way to go out
The Way to Go Out offers an absorbing journey through three interconnected pieces by Newton Armstrong, exploring themes of repetition, layering, and shifting musical focus inspired by visual art and landscapes. Performed by the Plus Minus Ensemble al…
Stain Ballads
There is something disarming about the world conjured in Stain Ballads. Martin Arnold creates music for Apartment House that settles into the ear with an air of deceptive simplicity: four extended works - “Lutra,” “Stain Ballad,” “Trousers,” and “Sli…
Parallel Words
With Parallel Words, Eventless Plot compose as a true collective, crafting an album that drifts at the intersection of chamber music, electroacoustic experimentation, and subtle jazz inflections. The trio - Vasilis Liolios, Aris Giatas, and Yiannis T…
Monument of Diamonds
With Monument of Diamonds, Kraig Grady offers a singular entry in the field of microtonal composition, crafting a sound world as immersive as it is otherworldly. The piece, composed in 2020 and realized for a small orchestra of specially built or ada…