Anthony Braxton Opera Trillium R
Dedicated to South African President Nelson Mandela."The secret password for this opera: 'If you know what I mean.'" -Anthony Braxton.As the audience enters, twelve archetypal centurions have marched...
View ArticleEleni Karaindrou - Complete Discography on ECM
Eleni Karaindrou is one of the most well known Greek composers and she has been an ECM recording artist since 1991, working closely with producer Manfred Eicher in rearranging and adapting compositions...
View ArticleHilliard Ensemble Discography (chronological, by recording date)
The Hilliard Ensemble is one of the world's foremost male a capella ensembles. Their repertory ranges from the medieval to the modern, to which they bring a unique sound honed by years of performing...
View ArticleCornelius Cardew
Cardew was a contemorary British composer who, by the end of the60s, became fed up with the very academic role of contemporary(serious) music and decided to involve a wider audience for what hewas...
View ArticleRICHARD GALLIANO Composer Accordionist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VhuvkFZ1HkRichard Galliano changed the history of the accordion: today we can speak of speak of "before" and "after" Galliano."(Yasuhiro Kobayashi - Japanese...
View ArticleGlen Moore (born October 28, 1941 in Portland, Oregon) is a jazz bassist who...
Glen Moore is a jazz bassist with early classical training in piano until age 13. He played bass in the school orchestra, experimenting with jazz and free improvisation on his own. His performing...
View ArticleGruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza: Azioni
Just in from the always beautifully presented Die Schachtel label, a two-CD and DVD package housed in a linen slipcase devoted to unheard recordings by the legendary Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova...
View ArticleAlhambra Love Songs
Reviewby Thom JurekFor a change, the descriptor insert included in a Tzadik release isn't all hype. Alhambra Love Songs does indeed contain "some of the most beautiful and soothing music Zorn has ever...
View ArticlePat Metheny - Orchestrion (2010)
Metheny is the only live musician on this recording, but its the opposite of, say, his 2003 One Quiet Night, in which Metheny hunkered down in his home studio to explore all the musical possibilities...
View ArticlePhases Of The Moon: Traditional Chinese Music
http://singersaintsrecords.blogspot.com/2010/01/phases-of-moon-traditional-chinese.htmlThis was an attractive release from Columbia Masterworks of traditional--albeit contemporary composed--Chinese...
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