Contemporary Composition / Tape Music

Three new LPs from the two labels run by Timo van Luijk, Metaphon and La Scie Dorée, offered together. Robert Nasveld's self-titled LP (Metaphon 029, Signature Series III) collects the only three tape pieces the Dutch pianist and radio producer ever …

Tip! *300 copies limited edition* Robert Nasveld (born 1955) studied piano at the Utrecht Conservatory and specialized in the twentieth-century repertoire, with a particular focus on Dutch, Russian, and American music. He thoroughly immersed himself …

Vincent Royer plays viola with tape and electronics in three Ferrari-related works: Luc Ferrari's Ephémère (1974) in a 2012 version by Brunhild Ferrari, her Le piano englouti, and Royer's improvisation on Ferrari's Ce qu'a vu le Cers.

1991 release ** "Alexander Kandov graduated from the State Academy of Music majoring in Composition under Professor Dimitar Tapkoff and in Piano under Professor Liuba Obretenova. He worked as a music editor at the Bulgarian National Radio and in Musi…

*2024 stock* Elliott Schwartz plays four of his compositions for solo piano and pre-recorded tape, a project that remains "a continuing attempt to enhance, expand, obscure, develop or otherwise modify the piano sonority and the act of piano performan…

Tip! *2023 stock* Kåre Kolberg (b.1936) is one of Norway`s foremost contemporary composers and is regarded as one of the pioneers of early electronic music and cross-artistic art in the Scandinavia. He has composed music for film, theatre and chamber…

The legendary DG Avantgarde vinyl series (1968-1971) is turning 55! In order to celebrate this occasion, the series is now released on 21 CDs for the first time. The Avantgarde series serves as a historical document for a time of radical change in mu…

An incredible set of vinyl reissues explores the unfolding sonic fiction of Texan composer Jerry Hunt and others affiliated with his Irida label.

The first complete CD of Bruno Maderna's music for flute, played by Roberto Fabbriciani for the 40th anniversary of the composer's death: works for flute and tape, piano and orchestra, and three first recorded arrangements.

Three works for viola and tape or electronics played by Vincent Royer: Luc Ferrari's Ephémère in a 2012 version by Brunhild Ferrari, her Le Piano Englouti, and Royer's live improvisation on Ferrari's Ce qu'a vu le Cers.

Three works by Luc Ferrari: Visage 2 (1955-56) and Après presque rien (2004), both first recordings with Musiques Nouvelles and Art Zoyd, and Madame de Shanghai for three flutes and digital sounds.

First recording of Iannis Xenakis's Kraanerg (1968) for 23 instruments and 4-channel tape, with the tape restored from the analog masters, played by the Callithumpian Consort conducted by Stephen Drury.

Mauricio Kagel's organ works, from Improvisation ajoutée (1962) to Rrrrrrr... (1980/81), plus Dominik Susteck's own K-A-G-E-L improvisations. Recorded by Susteck at the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, 7-9 April 2014, for Deutschlandfunk.

Seven electroacoustic works by Georg Katzer (1976-2010), from Bevor Ariadne kommt and Preußisch Blau to Mein 1989 and Steinelied 2, released with the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, for his 80th birthday.