Music from United States

Original European edition on CBS of the 1982 chamber music composition with a more accessible approach to Minimalsm by one of its main composers, resulting in absolutely lovely music.

Original European edition on CBS of the 1982 chamber music composition with a more accessible approach to Minimalsm by one of its main composers, resulting in absolutely lovely music.

Original European edition of the 3LP box set with the brilliant 1980 Minimalist opera based on Gandhi's life, released by CBS in 1985. With booklet.

Original European edition on FM/CBS of the 1986 album of songs co-written with Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega, David Byrne and Laurie Anderson and performed by Linda Ronstadt, Bernard Fowler, the Roches and Kronos Quartet among others.

Original European edition on FM/CBS of the 1987 album with the music for the ballets by Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp.

Original 1987 edition of the 3LP box set with the brilliant 1983 opera based on the Egyptian pharaoh's life, released by CBS in 1987. With booklet.

Ultra-rare vinyl edition of the first release of the full early 1970's landmark colossal Minimalist compostion, recorded partly in 1975 and partly in 1983, issued as a massive 6LP box set with albums with individual covers by Venture/Virgin in 1988. With insert.

Original Dutch-only vinyl edition of the excellent 1988 double album on CBS with the minimalist music for the 1979 ballet by Lucinda Childs and Sol LeWitt.

1989 US LP edition on Virgin of the science fiction music drama for winds, brass, vocals (Linda Rondstadt) and electronics.

Ascension, released in 1966 on Impulse!, stands as one of John Coltrane’s most radical and influential works. Subtitled “Edition I & II” to reflect the two complete takes recorded at the session - and presented together on LP for the first time - the piece is a nearly 40-minute large-ensemble performance marking Coltrane’s decisive embrace of the avant-garde. Recorded on June 28, 1965, at Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliffs studio and produced by Bob Thiele, the session assembled an expanded ense…

Members… Don’t! is the tour-de-force new release by acclaimed drummer and composer Tyshawn Sorey that offers a bold reinterpretation of Max Roach’s potent album Members, Don’t Git Weary, connecting its message of resilience in the face of struggle to the present day. It follows on a string of albums from Sorey that feature pianist Aaron Diehl, the latest of which – The Susceptible Now (Pi 2024) – received 5-Stars from Downbeat, which describe it as “a garden of sonic ecstasy… Sorey’s trio conjur…

Over two decades guitarist and composer Miles Okazaki has built a body of work marked by rigor and restless curiosity. With Boomtown, his ninth album of original compositions and his fourth as a leader for Pi Recordings, he presents a large-scale, finely wrought, sometimes unruly work that hurtles forward with narrative force. The album continues the themes of Miniature America from 2024, described by pianist Ethan Iverson as “meticulously assembled, absolutely a blast to listen to, and informed…

Originally brought together in September 2015 to perform the Zorn Bagatelles, Julian Lage and Gyan Riley have become two of Zorn’s most trusted and soulful musical collaborators, having recorded over a dozen CDs of his compositions for acoustic guitars both in duo and in trio with Bill Frisell. Seven Sonnets is their sixth CD together as a duo and the music is a lovely series of compositions referencing early music, minimalism, contemporary classical, soundtracks, folk, jazz, and more. Two of th…

2008 release ** Picking up where they left off 33 years ago with the accidental death of leader Father Yod, three remaining members of Yahowa 13 create a reunion album in the spirit of the original ensemble in Sonic Portation. True, Father Yod's unique vocal stylings are missing, which may be taken as a crucial omission or with a sense of considerable relief. What's left is a rhythm section consisting of Djin Aquarian, Octavius Aquarian, and Sunflower Aquarian, playing guitar, bass, and drums in…

Fantastic album with the great singer performing with her extended vocal technique and electronics three compositions for voice, instruments and electronics by herself plus one piece for voice, cellos, English horn and synthesizer by Subotnick, released by Nonesuch in 1985.

Rare 2LP set released by Lovely Music in 1980 with the ethereal droning investigation into the physics of the sound of a thin wire. Evocative truly experiemtnal music.

Outstanding 1979 album on Lovely Music with three powerful and groundbreaking electro-acoustic pieces realized in the mid-1960's for theater and multi-media performances. Essential, with some of the most uncompromising and extreme electronic music ever released.

Outstanding 1979 album on Lovely Music with three powerful and groundbreaking electro-acoustic pieces realized in the mid-1960's for theater and multi-media performances. Essential, with some of the most uncompromising and extreme electronic music ever released.

Outstanding 1979 album on Lovely Music with three powerful and groundbreaking electro-acoustic pieces realized in the mid-1960's for theater and multi-media performances. Essential, with some of the most uncompromising and extreme electronic music ever released.

Grey area late 1990's vinyl re-issue with silk-screened cover of a self-released 1992 cassette with rather Dadaist sound manupulations by Fluxus-related composer. With insert.