I’ll admit to a soft spot for the music of Swedish composer Åke Parmerud ever since hearing his 2015 Growl
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A Souvenir from Japan
Hans Tutschku is the German composer whose Firmament (2015) release for this label we quite enjoyed, especially ‘Issho Ni’ with
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Four new releases from empreintes DIGITALes, the Canadian label of electro-acoustic music composition. Here are the first two. Both arrived
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American modern classical composer Christopher Cerrone composed his piano concerto The Air Suspended only to have its debut performance cancelled,
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Swiss experimentalists Cyril Bondi and d’incise continue their work with the Insub Meta Orchestra to propose questions about contemporary music,
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Martin Taxt Second Room NORWAY SOFA MUSIC SOFA588 CD (2022) Here is a dynamic album of minimal drone music that
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New chamber music from Eren Gümrükçüoğlu, the Turkish-born composer, on Pareidolia (NEW FOCUS RECORDINGS FCR343) played by JACK Quartet, Mivos
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Four new items from the art label Sublime Retreat in Wroclaw Poland, operated by Taras Opanasuik. Three of them feature
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I never heard the music of Hungarian modernist György Kurtág before, but that’s my loss…the CD Hommage A Kurtág (NEW
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Gayle Young As Trees Grow IRELAND FARPOINT RECORDINGS fp084 CD (2022) Gayle Young is a Canadian composer, instrument builder and
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