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Malika
Tarabu songs by Malika (Asha Abdo), the Swahili singer from the Kenyan coast, with dharabouka, organ and bass guitar. Ten songs, issued by Wergo with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Sheik Chinna Moulana - Nadhaswaram
The nadhaswaram master Sheik Chinna Moulana with S. Kasim and S. Babu (nadhaswaram) and S. Subramanian (thavil), in four Carnatic pieces including a long alap in raga Subha Pantuvarali.
Overtones in Old European Cathedrals Thoronet
Michael Vetter's improvised overtone songs with tambura, Gesänge der Nacht I and II, recorded on 12 and 13 September 1987 in the Cistercian abbey of Le Thoronet.
Music for Unborn Children
Peter Pannke's piece for four tamburas in unusual tunings, played in a circle by Mechthild Kampik, Tina Rusvay, Werner Durand and Pannke. Recorded at Radio Bremen in 1982, in two parts.
Zen
Michael Vetter's solo koto improvisations, recorded live without edits at Tonstudio van Geest, Heidelberg/Sandhausen, on 24 March 1985.
Metal Drops
Three electronic works by Michael Obst, Inside (Infinite Chambers), Metal Drop Music and Ye-Na-Je, realised in 1983 at the Studio for Electronic Music of the Cologne Musikhochschule and, for Ye-Na-Je, with IPEM Ghent.
Sai-ji-ku
Six electroacoustic works by Wilfried Jentzsch and Hiromi Ishii with links to China, Indonesia and Japan, projected in a 47-speaker Klangdom with Zirkonium and recorded with dummy head technology. Released 2017.
Tracings
Four collaborative works (1997-2011) by Australian sound artist Ros Bandt and German composer Johannes S. Sistermanns, including radio pieces for ABC and a simultaneous Melbourne-Frankfurt performance. Released 2012.
Terrains Vagues
Portrait of Portuguese composer Luís Antunes Pena: works for double bass and drummers, organ, cello, thirty cymbals and electronics (2000-2012), with Edicson Ruiz, Drumming Grupo de Percussão, Dominik Susteck and Francesco Dillon. Released 2013.
Walking, North, North
Four works by Japanese composer Makiko Nishikaze, three solos and a duo built on sound, resonance and silence, played by the ensemble L'Art pour L'Art after many years of collaboration. Released 2009.
Silence Is the Only Music
Six works by Klaus Hinrich Stahmer for East Asian and Western instruments (sheng, guzheng, koto, shakuhachi, kayagum, changgu, accordion, flutes, cello), with Wu Wei, Xu Fengxia, Makiko Goto, Stefan Hussong and others; recorded 2000-2007.
TopoSonic Spheres
Two-disc spatial sound composition by Sabine Schäfer and Joachim Krebs, made from microscopically processed animal voices and nature sounds: a stereo version and a four-channel DTS version, with RaumklangMilieu studies. Released 2004.
Visions
Four electroacoustic works by German composer Wilfried Jentzsch (1994-2003): Lumière cendrée, Apokalyptische Vision 2000 for choir, narrator and electronics recorded at its 2000 Dresden premiere, Kyoto Bells and Trance oder Lamento di Bali on gamelan samples.