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*23 copies limited edition* the reel-to-reel tape with the original material, that appears to be an experiment with analog tape-echo effect probably achieved by 3-head tape recorded manipulation or or multiple microphones / recorders, was probably re…
Live
Concert recording from the Berwald Hall in Stockholm by KammarensembleN under B. Tommy Andersson: works by Xenakis, Boulez, Grisey, Eric Tanguy and Varèse played by soloists from the Stockholm orchestras.
Swïne Live!
Second album by The Peärls Before Swïne Experience, a live set of new pieces by David Lang, Annie Gosfield, Anders Hillborg, Tristan Murail and others, with the audience sounds between works reworked by Sten Hanson.
The Peärls Before Swïne Experience
Debut of the Swedish quartet The Peärls Before Swïne Experience: short commissioned pieces of five or six minutes by Nordic and European composers, contemporary music presented in a concert form close to pop.
Sotto il Segno del Sole
Kroumata, Omnibus and the Falu wind quintet play Messiaen’s Oiseaux Exotiques, Anders Eliasson’s Sotto il Segno del Sole for triple brass ensemble and five percussionists, and Karl-Birger Blomdahl’s Chamber Concerto.
Nilsson / Maros / Kox / Gubaidulina
Two groups that commissioned much of their own repertoire, the Kroumata Percussion Ensemble and the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, meet in works by Sofia Gubaidulina and Anders Nilsson, with pieces by Hans Kox and Miklós Maros.
Nilsson / Crumb / Eliasson / Börtz
Sonanza, the Stockholm ensemble for new music, with guitarist Göran Söllscher: Anders Nilsson’s Divertimento, George Crumb’s Eleven Echoes of Autumn, Anders Eliasson’s Fogliame and Daniel Börtz’s Ett porträtt.
Schönberg / Nilsson / Lindberg
The Swedish ensemble Sonanza plays Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, Anders Nilsson’s Reflections, written in its wake, and Magnus Lindberg’s Ur for five musicians, live electronics and two Macintosh computers.
Stockholm Saxophone Quartet
The first album of the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, with Iwa Sörenson and Boel Adler: Swedish works written for the group by Henrik Strindberg, Arne Mellnäs, Göran Gamstorp, Sven-Erik Bäck, Anders Eliasson and Jan W Morthenson.
To Hear with the Mouth
Live concert by Ensemble SON, the Swedish quartet of Jörgen Pettersson, Magnus Andersson, Jonny Axelsson and Ivo Nilsson, with Barry Guy as guest: music by Richard Barrett, Barry Guy and Roger Doyle where strict notation meets free improvisation.
Dawning
Dawning is a collaboration between Chicago creative music mainstay Damon Locks and burgeoning Black chamber music collective D-Composed, featuring violinists Khelsey Zarraga and Anya Brumfield, violist Seth Pae, and cellist Lindsey Sharpe. The album …
Iris ter Schiphorst
Iris ter Schiphorst’s music combines political awareness with poetic power, sensual sonority and formal radicalism. In honour of her diverse oeuvre, the Zafraan Ensemble has released a selection of musical collaborations created for her anniversary o…
Directors
Celebrated Czech musicians Floex & Jan Šikl present Directors, a collaborative album exploring neoclassical composition, electronic experimentation and chamber ensemble performance. Across four movements, Directors reveals a musical language where cl…
Music for Strings
Three string works written between 2020 and 2023, performed by Ensemble Modern: a nonet locked in seven-eight, a piece that splits sound the way a prism splits light, and a score written in mirror notation. Ikeda's electronic precision, played on bow…
The Evil of Banality
Tip! Last autumn, Ni Vu Ni Connu released Fagaschinski's debut album as a sole composer, entitled Aerodynamics. The double LP features two large-scale clarinet ensemble pieces: an octet composition performed by The Paranormal Clarinet Society and a n…
Rulfo/voces/ecos
The works on this CD were realized in collaboration between the composer Germán Toro Pérez and the musicians of PHACE – Petra Ackermann, Mathilde Hoursiangou, Ivana Pristašová-Zaugg and Roland Schueler – over a period of 15 years. They reflect two as…
Manara
Manara is a trio that emerged from a love of poetry, a shared interest in the musical traditions of the Middle East and poetry as political resistance. The musicians had worked together before separately – Alya and Khabat performed together in Suleim…
Mineralization
“The role of the composer is to act as a filter between reality and the listener, transforming real life into something different from what the listener is accustomed to,” summarizes composer Mioko Yokoyama, reflecting her personal view on her profes…
Mômo
The album Mômo comprises a collection of Adam de la Cour’s concert pieces – more specifically, his most important solo keyboard-based compositions. De la Cour draws his inspiration from languages where abrupt tonal shifts and grotesque exaggeration a…
Time is no line but a wound that curves
Huck Hodge, an American composer and multi-talented artist, writes, as the New York Times puts it, “harmonically fresh works […] full of splendour and thunder”. Both intellectually and immediately poetic, his music explores the many invisible connect…