New Arrivals
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.
Concord Sonata (LP)
1962 LP on Time's superb "Series 2000" curated by Earle Brown with the recording of a landmark performance ny Aloys Kontarsky of the composer's best known avant-garde composition from 1919.
Rothko Chapel / For Frank O'Hara (LP)
Two of the composer's most beautiful and beloved immersive compositions from the early 1970's, respectively for chorus, viola and percussion, and for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion, released on Columbia Odyssey's "Modern American Music Series" in 1976. Essential.
Paradigm / Algorithms I Versions I & IV / Signals (LP)
Four fantastic experimental pieces composed in 1968 for instruments and tape/electronics, including Foss' outstanding theatrical piece for percussionist-conductor, electric guitar and three other instruments capable of sustaining a sound and Hiller's superb computer-generated composition, released on DGG's legendary "Avantgarde" series.
Holidays Symphony (LP)
1970's re-press with brown labels of the 1967 LP on Columbia with the 1913 orchestral by the modernist/avant-garde composer, performed by The New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
Ives/Duchamp/Cage
Historical avant-garde pieces for two pianos (prepared, quarter-tone or with tape) spanning from 1913 to 1944, performed by Kristine Schol and Mats Persson and released on Caprice in 1982 and never re-issued on either LP or CD.
The Prairie (LP)
1943 choral work performed by the Gregg Smith Singers and the Brooklyn Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the composer himself, released by Turnabout in 1976.
Music For A Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) (LP)
Beautiful and eerie 1975 chamber work by the highly original composer for two amplified pianos and percussions used with extended techniques , released by Nonesuch in 1975.
John Cage / Christian Wolff (LP)
1970 re-issue on Mainstream of the 1963 split LP on Time Records experimental music series curated by Earl Brown, with Cage's 1960 wild noise/industrial (20 years in advance) electronic piece performed with David Tudor, backed with three compostions by Wolff for duet and string quartet. Essential.
Viola In My Life / False Relationships (LP)
Two breathtakingly beautiful meditative copmpositions for small ensemble from the late 1960's and early 70's, performed by David Tudor and Karen Phillips among others, and released by CRI in 1971. Essential.
Ra (LP)
1983 LP on Centrediscs with excerpts from the 11-hours percussion-driven sacred drama by Canadian acoustic ecology pioneer.
John Cage / Kenneth Patchen (LP)
Very rare ultra-limited first release from 1988 on RRRip of very early electro-acoustic pieces from the 1940's including the collaboration with experimental writer Kenneth Patchen.
Geschrieben in Wasser
On geschrieben in wasser., Klaus Lang pares the piano quartet down to a faintly breathing organism, letting soft, slowly shifting harmonies hover at the edge of audibility like something written on water just before it disappears.
For a Lemon Tree
On For a Lemon Tree, Kristofer Svensson, Maya Bennardo and Erik Blennow Calälv cultivate a fragile, glowing sound‑world where violin, bass clarinet and kacapi trace slow, intertwined lines, turning silence, breath and overtone into their primary compositional materials.
Clarinet Quintet
On his Clarinet Quintet, Jürg Frey stretches time until it feels almost weightless, using soft clarinet breaths and hushed strings to trace a slow, luminous drift where tiny inflections become whole landscapes of feeling.
Flare
On Flare, Sylvia Lim turns six chamber works into a series of luminous close‑ups, magnifying tiny shifts of timbre, breath and touch until fragile sounds bloom into something cathartic, raw and quietly destabilising.
Tending
On Tending, James Creed threads four ensemble works through a shared practice of careful, collective attention, letting sparse parts, quiet doublings and gently unstable textures accumulate into music that feels like weather slowly forming in the air around you.
Of Time
On Of Time, Underground Spiritual Game - baritone saxophonist Eden Bareket, bassist Ran Livneh and drummer Eran Fink - trace an imaginary route from city grime to rural trance, fusing Ethiopian jazz, Afrobeat pulse and cosmic free improvisation into a single, slow‑burning ritual.
Conclusio
On Conclusio, Asmus Tietchens bends back toward his industrial roots, folding corroded pulses, cold drones and acerbic detail into a suite that feels like “German Angst” hammered into stark, sculptural sound.
