New Arrivals / Today
Alyssa
*300 copies limited edition. Black sleeves with paste-on artwork and a postcard* Debut LP from a new Gothenburg duo consisting of Irma Krook (Makthaverskan) and Dan Johansson (Sewer Election). Alyssa takes elements from Irmas Military Arms 12" released a few years ago and combines it with the mind expanding synth stuff Dan has explored with the Psychic Panorama recordings recently. Adding a few larger-than-life piano bangers and whatnot, the result is a dreamy and mesmerizing night time album …
Complete Works for Multiple Piano
In Complete Works for Multiple Piano, Morton Feldman’s quietly radical writing for three or more hands is heard as a three‑hour continuum of hushed, hovering sonorities, where time dilates and the piano becomes a shared, breathing instrument.
Empty Words Part IV (2LP)
Rare 1987 double LP on Edition Michael Frauenlob Bauer with the composer himself performing his 1970's text-composition recorded live in 1984. Truly extreme stuff.
Sonata For Violin And Piano / Sonata No 4 For Violin And Piano / Sonata For Violin & Piano In Three Movements (LP)
Three sonatas for violin and piano composed from 1916 to 1977, performed by Jaime Laredo and Ann Scheinand released on Desto in 1975.
Appalachian Spring / Three Places In New England (LP)
Two orchestra pieces by the two most representative American composers of the first half of the 20th Century performed the Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walter Hendl and released on Desto's "American Composers Series" in 1963.
Jonah And The Whale (LP)
1973 large-scale oratorio released on unidentified label in 1982.
Five Piano Pieces / Three Ostinati / Six Scenes And A Fantasy / Variations (LP)
Compositions from the 1940's and 1980's for piano solo or in duo with another instrument (cello, clarinet or flute) released on CRS in 1985.
At The Tomb Of Charles Ives / Divertimento / Party Pieces / Academic Graffiti (LP)
Cage's mid-1940's "exquisite corpses" pieces in collaboration with Cowell, Harrison and Thompson, plus Ussachevsky's 1981 electronic valve instrument composition and two 1960's compositions by Harrison and Smit, performed by The Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lukas Foss abd released by Gramavision in 1983.
24 Songs (LP)
A landmark selection of the composer's diverse traditional/avant-garde songs composed in 1922, performed by Helen Boatwright and John Kirkpatrick and released by Overtone in 1954. With insert.
A Parable Of Death / Intermezzo / Kentuckiana (LP)
1954 LP on Columbia with Foss' cantata for tenor, narrator, chorus and orchestra plus two other orchestral works composed in the 1940/50's.
Bells Of Earth (LP)
Piano music by the Canadian composer self-released on Apparition Records in 1982.
