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Double Edge - U.S. Choice

Double Edge: Edmund Niemann & Nurit Tilles, duo-pianists Double EdgeThe name connotes a two-sided razor-sharp knife, poised at the brink of the unknown, slicing through the mediocre and the derivative, seeking the best of the new. When pianists Edmund Niemann and Nurit Tilles first met in 1978, they certainly had...


Sarah Hennies: Motor Tapes

ensemble 0: Stéphane & Julien Garin, percussion; Talea Ensemble: James Baker, conductor; Ensemble Dedalus: Didier Aschour, guitar and artistic direction I’m just so happy that this album is coming out. I wouldn’t say it’s the best thing I’m ever going to make, but it certainly is the best thing I’ve...


Modern American Bass

Robert Black, bass John McDonald, piano In the twentieth century, a series of instruments and ensembles have found their repertoire expanding exponentially, and their place on the classical stage suddenly front and center, instead of accompanying from the wings. The contrabass and viola were the last of the string instruments...


The Oak of the Golden Dreams

David Tudor, piano; Terry Jennings, saxophone; Edward Fields, narration; Fahrad Machkat, violin; Robert Block; prepared violin; Nicholas Roussakis, underwater clarinet; Harold Budd, Buchla Electronic Music System; Charles Oreña, soprano sax This CD reissue combines two LPs from the Advance label-Richard Maxfield's Electronic Music and Harold Budd's The Oak of the...


Malcolm Goldstein: because a circle is not enough: music for bowed string instruments

Malcolm Goldstein, violin; Jean René, viola; Émilie Girard-Charest, cello; Nicolas Caloia, contrabass music for bowed string instruments consists mostly of music composed by Malcolm Goldstein (b. 1936) between 2018 and 2019 while living in Montréal, Québec. The impulse to compose this series came from Goldstein’s experience as a teacher and...


Kenneth Gaburo: Five Works for Voices, Instruments and Electronics

Thomas Howell, piccolo; James Fulkerson, bass trombone; Thomas Fredrickson, double bass; Barbara Dalheim, voice; Kenneth Gaburo, conductor; Walden String Quartet; Jack Logan, trumpet; New Music Choral Ensemble; Linda Vickerman, Elinor Barron, Philip Larson, vocals Kenneth Gaburo (1926-1993) composed works for instruments, voices, electronics, multi-media, theater, and a variety of other...


Sarah Hennies: Spectral Malsconcities

Bearthoven: Karl Larson, piano; Pat Swoboda, bass; Matt Evans, percussion Bent Duo: David Friend, piano; Bill Solomon, percussion In modern experimental music, and especially among a number of musician-composers emerging in America during the Sixties, a fixation on process and awareness became a structural hallmark, exploring the gradual change of...


Robert Carl: From Japan

Elizabeth Brown and Robert Carl, shakuhachi; Ryan Hare, bassoon; Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn, laptop; Katie Kennedy, cello; Bill Solomon, vibraphone; Sayun Chang, percussion Robert Carl (b 1954) has long been interested in Japanese music and culture, and in the spring of 2007 he received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council to...


The League of Automatic Music Composers 1978-1983

John Bischoff, Jim Horton, Tim Perkis, David Behrman, Paul DeMarinis, Rich Gold The League of Automatic Music Composers was a band/collective of electronic music experimentalists active in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1977 and 1983. Widely regarded as the first musicians to incorporate the newly available microcomputers of the...


H.C.E. (Here Comes Everybody)

New Millennium Ensemble: Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet; Gregory Hesselink, cello; Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Sunghae Anna Lim, violin; John Ferrari, percussion; Margaret Kampmeier, piano; Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano We have borrowed H.C.E.,  (Here Comes Everybody) from John Cage, who borrowed it from James Joyce  in Finnegan's Wake. For Cage, the words symbolized...