Haiku In The Wide World
This is a lovely and surprising treat indeed. Composer and multi-instrumentalist Tim Hodgkinson (Henry Cow and much more) partners with vocalist Atsuko Kamura (Mizutama Shobodan aka PolkaDot Fire Brigade and Frank Chickens) to present 37 compositions,expanding the usual sub-10-second acoustic life of classic haiku into avaried suite of compositions which place the gem-like poems, spokenand sung in both English and Japanese by Hodgkinson and Kamura,into gorgeous musical frames composed by Hodgkin…
Black Angels
On Black Angels, Kronos Quartet turns George Crumb’s Vietnam-era nightmare into the axis of a stark, haunted program, binding early music, American modernism and Shostakovich’s war-torn melancholy into one of the group’s darkest, most enduring statements.
Rex
*350 copies limited edition* Rex is a solo cello record written and recorded while I’ve been living in the former home of Rex Brasher, a self-taught painter who created over 1,200 watercolors of North American birds. Composed for acoustic and electric cello, the record reflects the solitude and intensity that shaped both Brasher’s vision and my own process. Rex is not a portrait, but an echo—of a person, a place, and a way of seeing the world. Thank you to Matthew, Munawar, Cynthia & the RBA for…
Orchestral Works
2026 stock Bára Gísladóttir (b. 1989) considers sounds, instruments and ensembles as living organisms. In VAPE, Hringla and COR, the Icelandic composer and double bassist engages with the largest musical organism of all: the symphony orchestra. Through these works, we follow Gísladóttir’s fascination with language and coincidence, for example. Here is an uncompromising interrogation of the body, in its excesses and ailments. And here, most of all, is life, vaporous and between states, neith…
Glassworks
Philip Glass’s seminal 1982 album Glassworks remains one of the most influential and accessible works in contemporary classical and minimalist music, bridging the worlds of concert hall and popular listening with timeless elegance.
Originally conceived as a “Walkman‑suitable” work, Glassworks was designed for intimate, personal listening on cassette, with a special headphone‑oriented mix that brought listeners deep inside Glass’s intricate, pulsing sound world. The album’s six short, vividly con…
Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass
On Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet turns four string quartets into a self‑portrait of the composer, charting his path from theatre and film scores to music written directly for the group, all in a language of pulsed clarity and slowly deepening harmony.
Pax
On Pax, Arvo Pärt’s most emblematic pieces are gathered into a single, quietly radiant anthology, turning his tintinnabuli language into a long meditation on stillness, vulnerability, and the possibility of peace in a noisy, fractured world.
Reich/Richter
On Reich/Richter, Steve Reich joins Ensemble Intercontemporain and conductor George Jackson for a single 37‑minute arc of pulsed colour, a chamber‑orchestral score conceived in dialogue with Gerhard Richter’s moving stripes, where pattern, blur, and return become musical form.
Runner - Music For Ensemble And Orchestra
On Runner / Music for Ensemble and Orchestra, Steve Reich joins the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Susanna Mälkki for two late-period works that stretch his pulsed minimalism onto a large orchestral canvas, maintaining propulsive clarity while opening into shimmering, almost symphonic depth.
Satie
** 2026 Stock ** Satie is the point where Erik Satie’s so‑called “furniture music” stops being background and becomes a way of listening to the world. In these recordings, Aldo Ciccolini approaches Satie not as a quirky footnote to Debussy and Ravel but as a composer who quietly rewired 20th‑century music from the inside. The repertoire typically centres on the iconic cycles - Trois Gymnopédies, Trois Gnossiennes and companion pieces like the Nocturnes and Trois morceaux en forme de poire - work…
A Run Through The Forest
*100 copies limited edition* Ryggen Fri Records, the vinyl powerhouse from Gothenburg, Sweden, is thrilled to unveil the pre-order for A Run Through The Forest by Jukka Rintamäki – a limited edition white 180-gram vinyl pressing that's set to vanish as quickly as mist in the morning woods.
This captivating album plunges listeners into an immersive sonic landscape, where brooding atmospheres collide with raw, emotive composition work and haunting melodies. Jukka Rintamäki is known for his intrica…
Chant / Trajectoires Pour Violon & Orchestre (LP)
Two excellent orchestral works composed in the 1960's released on Erato's "O.R.T.F" series in 1971.
Amy Dirige Amy (LP)
Two compositions respectively for soprano and orchestra from 1965 and for soprano, mezzo-soprano and 12 instruments from 1974 conducted by the composer himself and released on Adès' "Musique Française d'Aujourd'hui" series in 1978.
Prière À La Sainte Vierge / Chapelet / Les Battements Du Coeur De Jésus / Prière Au Seigneur (LP)
Contemporary sacred music for the early 1970's released on Arion in 1972. With booklet.
Symphonie N°1 / Duo Pour Flute Et Violoncelle (LP)
A symphony and a duo for flute and cello composed in 1980 and released on Erato's "Musique Française d'Aujourd'hui" series in 1984.
Jérusalem Symphonie (LP)
The only recording of this beautiful symphony composed, and released, in 1972.
Archipel 3 (LP)
Three versions of the 1969 piece for spatialized percussion ensemble performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg with Georges Pludermacher and released on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series in the mid-70's. Black labels.
Archipel 4 (LP)
Four versions of the 1970 piano piece performed by Catherine Collard and released on Philips' "Modern Music Series" in 1972.
Archipel 4 (LP)
Four versions of the 1970 piano piece performed by Catherine Collard and released on Philips' "Modern Music Series" in 1974.
Structures II / Improvisation II Sur Mallarmé (10")
Two post-serialist compositions from the late 1950's, respectively for two pianos and for soprano and nine instruments, released in La Musica Moderna record magazine nr.99. No booklet.