Contemporary Composition / Avant-Garde

* Limited Edition Green vinyls + insert *  Ars Subtilior (14th century) and the Noise: the two inspirations of Christophe Guiraud which are like two rivers which are woven in a writing of great power. The French young composer is the link between the…

*2021 stock* This CD is the first release to present such a large number of works by Clarence Barlow. This fascinating spectrum of his life's work, thrown into relief by the complexity of his pieces, illustrates his career as a composer. It is a grea…

KRAFFT for orchestra was composed in 2016 as a commission of the French State, and was premiered in Paris and Marseille, France. The composition has a similar kind of metric structure as String Quartet No.3: all instruments play in rhythmic unison th…

Co-released with Umland Records, Germany. On one night in 2019, The Dorf (German for "village") took a heavy dose of the music of Phill Niblock. The impact on the musicians, gathering to play a double-length version of Niblock's Baobab and (in a seco…

Soprano saxophone player Sascha Armbruster, oboe player Kelsey Maiorano, clarinetist Toshiko Sakakibara, trumpeter Jens Bracher, trombonist Stephen Menotti and tuba player Janne Jakobsen gather together and record the compositions written by Norbert …

**300 copies** Avant-garde and experimental musics are intrinsically connected to community, collectivism, support, and collaboration. Audiences and artists, stretching to every corner of the globe, continuously rely on each other to push into ever m…

George Crumb's earliest and most recent piano works on one CD: the first recording of Metamorphoses (Book I), ten pieces after famous paintings written for Margaret Leng Tan, and the Five Pieces for Piano (1962).

Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kurzwellen (1968) in a new performing version by C.L.S.I. for four instruments, four shortwave radios, six computers and conductor, premiered in 2011 and conducted by Paul Mefano.

**300 copies** "Taken together, these works not only trigger concentrated, deep(er) listening, making a great case for the importance of silence as a decisive and structural element, but they also stress that the line between a composition and an ins…

Facsimile reprint of Walter Zimmermann's book Desert Plants, his interviews with American experimental composers from a 1976 trip to America

**Hardcover edition**In the late 1950s, avant-garde musicians were exploring new ways of expressing their experimental compositions in writing. Searching for a universal language that would reach far beyond music, they no longer considered the tradit…

All of Morton Subotnick's piano music on one disc for the first time, with four first recordings, including Liquid Strata and The Other Piano with electronics, played by SooJin Anjou and supervised by the composer.

Elliott Sharp's Dispersion: Flexagons, Dispersion of Seeds, The Hidden Variable and Palimpsest, four processes-based works for large ensemble, played by the young musicians of Veni Academy under Marián Lejava, with Sharp on electroacoustic guitar.

Volume 10 of Mode's John Cage piano series, with Thomas Schultz playing Two Pieces for Piano (1935), Solo for Piano from the Concert for Piano and Orchestra, Two Pieces for Piano (1946) and Swinging (1989).

Four chamber works by Gerald Eckert from 2006 to 2015, for piccolos and percussion, voices, flute and cello, and violin and contrabass clarinet with electronics, played by Ensemble L'art pour l'art, Auditivvokal and Ensemble Reflexion K.

Roberto Fabbriciani plays the complete flute works of Henri Pousseur, including Flexions I, Éclipticare and Zeus joueur de flûtes with live electronics by Alvise Vidolin, plus the 1957 tape piece Scambi.

Four late cello works by Horatiu Radulescu played by his widow Catherine Marie Tunnell, with Ian Pace at the piano: L'Exil Intérieur, Das Andere, Pre-Existing Soul of Then and Lux Animae. Recorded in 2018.

Second volume of the Horatiu Radulescu Edition: his complete organ works played by Christoph Maria Moosmann, plus Intimate Rituals III and Immersed in the Wonder II with cellist Catherine Marie Tunnell, all first recordings.

"This piece and group developed over the course of a year. It was presented in concert over three initial phases. The concert recorded here (second phase) occurred six months into this process. However, this is not completely accurate; in different f…

**200 copies** "This is a study version composed in the studio from a single recording of a violin glissando. It was never intended to be performed live. The final version for 7 violins was the result of this study.""A single recording of the violin …