Auditem - Concert for Detuned Piano
Eight eerily atonal tone poems from experimental Austrian composer Thom Poe. A little like John Cage but more danceable. Excellent soundtrack music for axe-murd..(read more)
Label: Acidsoxx
Artist: Auditem
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, Piano.
Blast - Sift
Seventh release of one of the best avant-rock ensembles of the Netherlands, now a quartet. 'Equally at home with the discipline of composition and the tigh..(read more)
Label: ReR Megacorp / ReRBlast02
Artist: Blast
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Rock, Composers, Free Jazz.
Helmut Lachenmann - Gran Torso / Guero / Pression
Gran Torso (1971/72) is for string quartet, Guero (1970) for piano (played by Lachenmann himself) / Pression (1969) for cello is played by two interpreters.
Label: Ed.RZ / EDITION RZ 1003
Artist: Helmut Lachenmann
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Chamber Music, Composers, Contemporary, Strings, Vinyl.
John McGuire - Works for Instruments
Each of the compositions of American composer John McGuire describes, in its own way, a multi-dimensional sonic space which the listener can take in from variou..(read more)
Label: Ed.RZ / EDITION RZ 20003-4
Artist: John McGuire
Medium: 2CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary.
Luc Ferrari - Unheimlich Schön
Musique concrète realised in 1971 at the studios of the Südwestfunk, Baden-Baden. Part of the Collection Cinéma pour l’oreille, curated by Jérôme Noeting..(read more)
Label: Metamkine / MKCD008
Artist: Luc Ferrari
Medium: 3" CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Sound Art.
Francis Dhomont - … et autres utopies
The latest collection of various electronic and electricacoustic autonomous works from Dhomont, picking up where Jalons had left off three years earlier. Accord..(read more)
Label: Empreintes Digitales / IMED 0682
Artist: Francis Dhomont
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic.
David Tudor - Music for Piano
A double CD with historical recordings with pieces for piano from John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff played by David Tudor.
Label: Ed.RZ / EDITION RZ 1018-19
Artist: David Tudor
Medium: 2CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Piano.
Moondog - Snaketime Series
Re-issue of his debut LP from 1956 on the musician’s own Moondog Recordings imprint. Blending Eastern instruments and ethnic music with American exotica i..(read more)
Label: Moondog Records / 2
Artist: Moondog
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Eccentrics, Microtonality, USA, Vinyl.
Harry Partch - The Harry Partch Collection Vol. 2
The Wayward: U.S. Highball, San Francisco, the Letter, Barstow / And on the Seventh Day Petals fell in Petaluma.
Label: New World Records / 80622
Artist: Harry Partch
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, Instrument Builders, Microtonality, USA.
