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BRINDUS, NICOLAE	Match/Soliloque 1&4/Antifonia	CD	METAPHON	METAPHON 025CD
$21.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/9/2026 Romanian avant-garde composer, Nicolae Brînduş (1935-2023), studied piano and composition at the National University of Music in Bucharest. From 1969 to 1980 he attended the Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt and later he also worked at the IRCAM in Paris and GMEB in Bourges. His compositions have been performed worldwide. This album, originally released on Electrecord's RCM (Romanian Contemporary Music) series in 1986, provides a selection of works which belong to his cycle PHTORA (1968-1972). The cycle comprises five pieces which are five degrees of structuring collective improvisation, leaning towards the spectralist tradition. It's probably the most eccentric record in the whole RCM series, offering a mesmerizing collage of organized cacophony, as a massive but subtly layered whirlwind of abstract orchestral improvisations, Romanian picturesque folklore and free jazz with extensive use of tape manipulation and reverberation. This reissue comes with the beautiful original sleeve artwork by Ana Golici who designed many sleeves for Electrecord.

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FELLAHIN	Live at Space Mountain	LP	TWENTY ONE EIGHTY TWO RECORDING COMPANY	KHZ 1013LP
$32.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/9/2026 The word "Fellahin" is derived from the Arabic for tiller or cultivator. Fellahin, as a group, is a violin, wind, and percussion format for violinist Mike Khoury. For Live at Space Mountain, Khoury travelled to Miami to work with Kenny Millions (Keshavan Maslak) on clarinet and guitar and Steve Bristol on percussion. These long format live pieces allow for cultivation and exploration of the possibilities in improvisation. The evasive moment where improvisation develops into something else. It is fleeting, but the desire to attain it is effervescent. That enthusiasm is complicated by time and the oppression of pursuing artistic endeavors, but it may not be indicative of a weathering of the soul. These experiences make the artists uniquely qualified to handle these moments -- a tip of the hat, as if hope is a strategy. Khoury is best known for his work as a soloist, in duet with percussionist Ben Hall and dancer/choreographer Leyya Tawil. Former Detroiter, Kenny Millions (aka Keshavan Maslak), is a free music veteran having led groups with John Lindberg, Sonny Murray, and a litany of downtown stalwarts like Phillip Glass, Rhys Chatham and Laurie Anderson. Steve Bristol is one of Miami's best kept secrets. A stunning percussionist and pianist, Bristol is also a producer known for his work with Kool Keith having produced the last session of proto filthy rap, Blowfly, with a cast of free jazz giants. Space Mountain may be terrifying, but that fear compels the listener to seek out other possibilities, some of which are created only if you cultivate them for yourself.

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KHOURY/SEHNAOUI/YASSIN	TAQATO3	LP	TWENTY ONE EIGHTY TWO RECORDING COMPANY	KHZ 1014LP
$32.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/9/2026 This is improvised sound that is based in the heritage and the heart of Mike Khoury (violin), Sharif Sehnaoui (guitar, percussion, bouzouki) and Raed Yassin (bass). TAQATO3 was recorded live with no overdubs in Bustrous Palace in Beirut, still surviving despite a civil war, foreign incursion, and the 2020 Beirut harbor explosion. In 2018, Khoury, Sehnaoui, and Yassin found themselves together following the Irtijal Festival. TAQATO3 is executed at the very precipice of improvisation but captures the spirit of the palace and the essence of the moment. The sonics fill the recording. It seems almost in unison. The tension is palpable, but the pieces seem to breathe with an intensity that writhes with composure. This exchange occurs between the musicians and the space. It doesn't seem hyperbolic to suggest that a collective consciousness of the people of Beirut can be heard in these pieces. Khoury, who is also featured on Porcelain Hammer's Born For Years, and Fellahin's Live at Space Mountain, has worked in duet with percussionist Ben Hall and dancer choreographer Leyya Tawil. Sehnaoui is one of the principals behind Beirut's long-running Irtijal Festival of Improvised Music and is a key member of A-Trio with Yassin and trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj and the ensemble Karkhana. Yassin is a bassist and visual artist. His work often examines narratives within a collective context. He is currently based in Berlin where he has his art practice and production company. In absolute terms, all improvisation is based upon previous endeavor, TAQATO3 is a moment or clarity for and between each musician on this masterful recording.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
BRINDUS, NICOLAE	Match/Soliloque 1&4/Antifonia	LP	METAPHON	METAPHON 025LP
$35.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/9/2026 LP version. Romanian avant-garde composer, Nicolae Brînduş (1935-2023), studied piano and composition at the National University of Music in Bucharest. From 1969 to 1980 he attended the Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt and later he also worked at the IRCAM in Paris and GMEB in Bourges. His compositions have been performed worldwide. This album, originally released on Electrecord's RCM (Romanian Contemporary Music) series in 1986, provides a selection of works which belong to his cycle PHTORA (1968-1972). The cycle comprises five pieces which are five degrees of structuring collective improvisation, leaning towards the spectralist tradition. It's probably the most eccentric record in the whole RCM series, offering a mesmerizing collage of organized cacophony, as a massive but subtly layered whirlwind of abstract orchestral improvisations, Romanian picturesque folklore and free jazz with extensive use of tape manipulation and reverberation. This reissue comes with the beautiful original sleeve artwork by Ana Golici who designed many sleeves for Electrecord.

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BEYLS, PETER	Peter Beyls	LP	METAPHON	METAPHON 027LP
$35.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/9/2026 Peter Beyls (1950) works on the intersection of computer science and the arts. He develops generative systems in music, the visual arts and hybrid formats. Beyls studied music and computer science at EMS, Stockholm, the Royal Music Conservatory, Brussels and the Slade School of Art, UC London. Initially he was active in electronic music, as a composer of tape music. Later on, he developed various analog live electronic music systems. In close partnership with Michel Waisvisz, he designed and built the early prototypes of the crackle box synthesizer at STEIM, Amsterdam (1973-1975). Around the same time, Belgian composers Karel Goeyvaerts and Lucien Goethals were his mentors at the IPEM Studio. Over the years, Beyls' work has primarily centered on generative systems, including an extensive series of machine drawings, human-machine interactive music systems using machine-learning and interactive audiovisual installations on which he has also given worldwide lectures. His work has been widely performed and exhibited at various universities and art institutions. The four previously unreleased tracks on this LP are amongst his first electronic music compositions using the Crackle Box, the Synthi 100 and the VCS3, a combination of live improvised electronics with precise tape editing and effects.

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FONTANA, BILL	Early Works	LP	ALGA MARGHEN	NMN 168LP
$28.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/12/2025 Alga Marghen presents two previously unpublished seminal works by Bill Fontana, "Suite For Toy Tape Recorder" from 1968, and "Wave Spiral" from the early '70s. These recordings come directly from the archives of Philip Corner who also curated this LP edition and contributed the liner notes. 1968: In the basement Music Room of the New School For Social Research, Philip Corner was teaching "Analysis of New Music," a class he inherited from Malcolm Goldstein and before him Richard Maxfield and of course all the way back to the famous founder John Cage, present in the spirit of living history. The "Suite For Toy Tape Recorder" was a series of little reels of 1 7/8" tapes, unique experiments by means of "working-with" and so "transcend" by "making use-of" those little cheap tape-recorders. A sensitive ear that listened to hum and hiss and all the other characteristic distortions; and recorded these materials via a kind of physical phonogène of musique-concrete perspective, his thumb's friction as the reel was running fast-forward in order to create tape loops in contrapuntual collision. Side B presents "Wave Spiral, for 5 Rin Gongs," a 21-minute blissful piece recorded in the early-'70s and first presented in Australia in 1977. This work shows how Bill Fontana's research evolved toward working with the distinct physical dimension of different frequencies. An exploration of how sound becomes simultaneously its own material and the force acting upon it. The piece unfolds as an investigation of how frequency itself becomes sculptural. Across its 21-minute duration, the rin gongs generate sustained waves that spiral outward and inward simultaneously, their overtones interacting with the listening space that Fontana would describe as a "definition of motion interacting with a particular acoustic environment." The spiral manifests itself here not through cycles within cycles of tape loop manipulations like on Side A, but through the acoustic behavior of metallic resonance in space. This sound is rendered as tangible phenomenon, frequency made visible through its physical impact on the listening environment. These recordings have remained unheard for decades, only existing in Philip Corner's archive. Their publication allows the world to trace the development of an artist discovering that to work with sound was to investigate its physical dimensions, to understand that frequency and space are inseparable, that sound sculpure begins not with installation but with the fundamental recognition that all sounds exist as waves interacting with architecture itself. Edition of 232.

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MCCANN, SEAN	The Leopard	2CD	RECITAL	R 114CD
$32.50 IN STOCK 2x Gold CDs (glass-mastered). Includes hardbound libretto book (88 pages). Sean McCann presents The Leopard, an opera. Dialog, music, and elaborate sound design fold into a narrative fantasy about self-cannibalization and transformation. Written and recorded over five years, this is McCann's first album since 2019's Puck (R 069LP) and his first opera. The opera is voiced by composer Martin Bresnick, artist Nour Mobarak, musician Max Eilbacher (Horse Lords), and voice actors David George and Krystel Abimeri. McCann performed and recorded most of the music himself, meticulously editing every sound. The opera opens with an ornate musical overture before plunging into a surreal tableau: characters on a sailboat cooking and consuming themselves over a makeshift stove. Over the course of eight scenes, the plot continually dissolves and recombines, inducing a narcotic dreamstate. The opera is overseen by Copy, a chimerical figure who both guides and distorts the plot. Four wordless interludes feature Copy in a greenhouse, playing old Victrola records while pruning floral incarnations of each persona. One hears screaming silverware, sprays of watering cans, a thunderstorm, and the baking of each character into a loaf of bread. Musical flourishes appear, such as Barbara Strozzi's devastating "Lagrime mie" (1659) which is performed in an empty library alongside a Gertrude Stein-esque spoken incantation read by Nour Mobarak. The opera closes with a grand coda; a haunting, elegiac work for violins and choir. The opera is accompanied by a book that contains the libretto along with unspoken texts and artwork. Each scene in the book contains a "Copy path," a kind of plot betrayal or text smear that beckons the listener to fall inside plot holes and uncover flickers of meaning for themselves. The Leopard navigates a new form that lays somewhere between radio-play, experimental opera, and dioramic film.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
MCCANN, SEAN	The Leopard	3LP	RECITAL	R 114LP
$92.50 LOW STOCK LEVEL 3LP version. + Book Sean McCann presents The Leopard, an opera. Dialog, music, and elaborate sound design fold into a narrative fantasy about self-cannibalization and transformation. Written and recorded over five years, this is McCann's first album since 2019's Puck (R 069LP) and his first opera. The opera is voiced by composer Martin Bresnick, artist Nour Mobarak, musician Max Eilbacher (Horse Lords), and voice actors David George and Krystel Abimeri. McCann performed and recorded most of the music himself, meticulously editing every sound. The opera opens with an ornate musical overture before plunging into a surreal tableau: characters on a sailboat cooking and consuming themselves over a makeshift stove. Over the course of eight scenes, the plot continually dissolves and recombines, inducing a narcotic dreamstate. The opera is overseen by Copy, a chimerical figure who both guides and distorts the plot. Four wordless interludes feature Copy in a greenhouse, playing old Victrola records while pruning floral incarnations of each persona. One hears screaming silverware, sprays of watering cans, a thunderstorm, and the baking of each character into a loaf of bread. Musical flourishes appear, such as Barbara Strozzi's devastating "Lagrime mie" (1659) which is performed in an empty library alongside a Gertrude Stein-esque spoken incantation read by Nour Mobarak. The opera closes with a grand coda; a haunting, elegiac work for violins and choir. The opera is accompanied by a book that contains the libretto along with unspoken texts and artwork. Each scene in the book contains a "Copy path," a kind of plot betrayal or text smear that beckons the listener to fall inside plot holes and uncover flickers of meaning for themselves. The Leopard navigates a new form that lays somewhere between radio-play, experimental opera, and dioramic film.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
ICTUS, SUZANNE VEGA, COLLEGIUM VOCALE GENT	Einstein on the Beach	2CD	VLEK	VLEK 042CD
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 11/28/2025 Brussels-based label VLEK presents a new recording of Einstein on the Beach (Philip Glass, 1976). Captured at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, this version brings together the Ictus ensemble, the Ghent-based Collegium Vocale Gent, and Suzanne Vega, iconic figure of the New York folk revival. In 2018, Ictus and Collegium Vocale Gent, with the support of visual artist Germaine Kruip, took on a bold challenge: to deliver a purely musical interpretation of Einstein on the Beach, now widely regarded as the manifesto of minimalist music. Suzanne Vega later joined the project, taking on all spoken roles. Carried by the physical commitment of the performers, this version retains the hypnotic power of the original score while opening new sonic perspectives. After touring successfully across Europe, the work was recorded in November 2022 at the prestigious Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Founded in Brussels in 2011, VLEK first made its mark with experimental electronic music. In 2025, the label celebrates its 15th anniversary by launching a new editorial line focused on contemporary creative music. The CD and vinyl release of Einstein on the Beach illustrates this ambition: to let singular works resonate across borders and genres, reach curious and diverse audiences, and place today's music within a lineage that is both heritage-based and ever-evolving.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
ICTUS, SUZANNE VEGA, COLLEGIUM VOCALE GENT	Einstein on the Beach	3LP	VLEK	VLEK 042LP
$57.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 11/28/2025 3LP version. Brussels-based label VLEK presents a new recording of Einstein on the Beach (Philip Glass, 1976). Captured at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, this version brings together the Ictus ensemble, the Ghent-based Collegium Vocale Gent, and Suzanne Vega, iconic figure of the New York folk revival. In 2018, Ictus and Collegium Vocale Gent, with the support of visual artist Germaine Kruip, took on a bold challenge: to deliver a purely musical interpretation of Einstein on the Beach, now widely regarded as the manifesto of minimalist music. Suzanne Vega later joined the project, taking on all spoken roles. Carried by the physical commitment of the performers, this version retains the hypnotic power of the original score while opening new sonic perspectives. After touring successfully across Europe, the work was recorded in November 2022 at the prestigious Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Founded in Brussels in 2011, VLEK first made its mark with experimental electronic music. In 2025, the label celebrates its 15th anniversary by launching a new editorial line focused on contemporary creative music. The CD and vinyl release of Einstein on the Beach illustrates this ambition: to let singular works resonate across borders and genres, reach curious and diverse audiences, and place today's music within a lineage that is both heritage-based and ever-evolving.

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SOUSA, TIAGO	Organic Music Tapes Vol. 4	Cassette	SUCATA TAPES	SUC 070CS
$17.50 LOW STOCK LEVEL In keeping with tradition, the new year brings another offering from Portuguese pianist and composer Tiago Sousa. The fourth volume of the Organic Music Tapes series concludes this cycle that has significantly transformed Tiago Sousa's music. Compositions in a fluid state, forming nebulae of sounds with vague contours for piano, organ, and tape loops, based on techniques pioneered by American minimalism, particularly by composers such as Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Charlemagne Palestine. While throughout this series the electric organ has played a more prominent role in contrast with pre-recorded loops, this is the moment when this technique is extended to the piano compositions. New opportunities arise for the repetition and variation of small motifs to induce subtle perceptions and psychoacoustic effects. This final edition represents the maturation of the Portuguese composer's intentions surrounding the idea of organic music. In music, too, the organic world is quite different from the one built on the rules of syntax and grammar. It refers instead to a type of inter-dependent relationships and patient, repetitive processes that are simultaneously spontaneous and unpredictable, which shape rivers and mountains, the grain of wood, muscle fibers, or marks on a jade stone. Enter then the fourth volume and be locked in a new theatre of eternal music by an artists that keeps pushing his own style to ebullient highs.

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MAINE, RUTH	Found Keys	LP	SONIC PIECES	SP 038STD-LP
$28.50 IN STOCK Found Keys is the debut album from American artist Ruth Maine. Although Ruth has been playing and composing music for over two decades, this is the first time she decided to record some of her varied compositions and share them with the public. But in times when it is the norm to clamor for attention, she prefers to go the opposite way. Ruth likes to let her music speak for itself and stay in the shadows. The 16 short piano pieces heard on this album, each about two to three minutes long, were recorded remotely and purely surrounded by nature. Once a composition was found and Ruth considered it mature, she only recorded it once, embracing the beauty of doing something for the first time with all its little imperfections. Found Keys sounds anything but imperfect though. These compositions feel timeless, intimate and comforting, as if they have been around for a long time, like an old friend. Gently played keys slowly evolve into minimal pieces through repetitive melodies. There's stillness as much as there's brightness, sadness as much as joy; welcome to a beautiful journey through Ruth's world of wonder. In many ways, Found Keys is a deeply personal record that takes Sonic Pieces back to its roots. And it leaves a feeling of nostalgia while reviving memories of the past.

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GOLUB, PHILLIP	Filters	LP	GREYFADE	GREYFADE 005LP
$27.50 LOW STOCK LEVEL Originally released in 2022. A beautifully meditative and architectural set of loops for solo piano, Filters is the solo debut of pianist and composer Phillip Golub (b. 1993). Approaching the concept of endless repetition through the lens of his delicate and expressive pianism, Golub's loops unite the austerity of the systems-based with the infinite variety and imagination of live performance. The process of manual repetition resembles for Golub a kind of ritual, rather than merely a technological process. It is the act of participation in an entity unfolding over time that interests him. He explored different durations and performance contexts, sometimes quietly performing a loop or two as guests arrived to a recital hall, other times programming afternoon-length performances in which each loop extended to durations of 45 minutes or more. He even experimented with orchestrating the loops for various mixed chamber ensembles. For the recording of his debut solo album, however, Golub wanted to distill the timeless quality of these pieces into a piano-only, LP-length experience. In summer 2019, while in Los Angeles for work on an opera with Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding, he scheduled time to record on a privately owned and beautifully maintained Steinway D. Golub then edited together his favorite sections of these extended performances to construct the final album versions. Structurally, each loop proceeds by ordering two internal sections into larger patterns. While the harmonic and formal dimensions of Filters are meticulously controlled, some aspects of the compositions are left intentionally open. There is no explicit rhythm specified in the composition, for instance; the approximate timing of each event is indicated with space-time notation. Filters is intentionally designed to work in many contexts. Although the structural integrity and endlessly variegated details of these loops reward focused listening, they never demand it. This is also just beautiful music to get lost in.

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GLASS, PHILIP	The Complete Piano Etudes (Performed by Vanessa Wagner)	4LP BOX	INFINE	IF 1099LP
$180.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL 4LP box set version. "After more than thirty years of working with and performing the great repertoire, the music of Philip Glass has, in a way, almost revolutionized my life as a musician," confides Vanessa Wagner. An emblematic artist on the French music scene, winner of a Victoire de la musique award and director of the Chambord and Giverny festivals, Vanessa Wagner is as inspired in her interpretation of Mozart, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, and Dusapin as she is alongside Murcof and Rone. With her innovative and daring approach, she has established herself as a major influence on the classical music landscape, crossing boundaries and blazing inspiring trails. For InFiné, she has dedicated four albums to the major figures of this movement, John Adams, Meredith Monk, Brian Eno, and Ryūichi Sakamoto, as well as to the new generation Caroline Shaw, Bryce Dessner, and Nico Muhly. After giving numerous concerts based on these works, she felt the need to record in their entirety this essential monument in the history of music, which bridges the gap between the 20th and 21st centuries: Philip Glass's 20 Etudes for piano by Philip Glass. His approach helps to place these two books in the great repertoire, alongside the great cycles of studies by Ligeti, Debussy, Dusapin, and before them, Chopin and Liszt. The thread linking Philip Glass to Vanessa Wagner may be as simple as a detail: a moment, a pedagogy, a way of looking at the piano. In Words Without Music, Glass recalls his apprenticeship with Nadia Boulanger in Paris -- a lesson in rigorous received just as the Nouvelle Vague was about to shatter the conventions of cinema the conventions of cinema, just as the composers of the minimalist movement had done with the language of music. Nurtured by Ravel and Debussy, the great French pedagogue disciplined yet inquisitive minds, capable of embracing modernity without denying modernity without denying their heritage.

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ZUBRZYCKI, SLAWOMIR	Viola Organista: Monologues & Dialogues	CD	LEITER	LTR 055CD
$18.00 IN STOCK Polish pianist, composer and instrument maker Slawomir Zubrzycki presents his new album Viola Organista: Monologues & Dialogues -- produced by Nils Frahm at the legendary Funkhaus Berlin. The Viola Organista, a unique keyboard string instrument originally designed by Leonardo da Vinci but never built, takes center stage. The Viola Organista produces its sound through a rotating wheel system that strokes strings like a bow -- a fascinating hybrid of keyboard and string instrument. Zubrzycki reconstructed the instrument based on centuries-old sketches, breathing new life into one of the most unusual instruments in music history. The album brings together works by Dowland, Marais, Kircher, Handel, Podbielski, J.C. Bach, and J.S. Bach, interpreted on the viola organista -- partly solo, partly as a duo with harpsichordist Lilianna Stawarz. The repertoire impressively demonstrates the emotional depth and tonal diversity of the instrument. Zubrzycki's aim is to establish the viola organista as a living contemporary instrument -- not as a museum exhibit, but as an inspiration for new music. Artists such as Björk and Nils Frahm share his vision. This album is a milestone -- both sonically and historically.

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GLASS, PHILIP	The Complete Piano Etudes (Performed by Vanessa Wagner)	2CD	INFINE	IF 1099CD
$24.00 NOT IN STOCK "After more than thirty years of working with and performing the great repertoire, the music of Philip Glass has, in a way, almost revolutionized my life as a musician," confides Vanessa Wagner. An emblematic artist on the French music scene, winner of a Victoire de la musique award and director of the Chambord and Giverny festivals, Vanessa Wagner is as inspired in her interpretation of Mozart, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, and Dusapin as she is alongside Murcof and Rone. With her innovative and daring approach, she has established herself as a major influence on the classical music landscape, crossing boundaries and blazing inspiring trails. For InFiné, she has dedicated four albums to the major figures of this movement, John Adams, Meredith Monk, Brian Eno, and Ryūichi Sakamoto, as well as to the new generation Caroline Shaw, Bryce Dessner, and Nico Muhly. After giving numerous concerts based on these works, she felt the need to record in their entirety this essential monument in the history of music, which bridges the gap between the 20th and 21st centuries: Philip Glass's 20 Etudes for piano by Philip Glass. His approach helps to place these two books in the great repertoire, alongside the great cycles of studies by Ligeti, Debussy, Dusapin, and before them, Chopin and Liszt. The thread linking Philip Glass to Vanessa Wagner may be as simple as a detail: a moment, a pedagogy, a way of looking at the piano. In Words Without Music, Glass recalls his apprenticeship with Nadia Boulanger in Paris -- a lesson in rigorous received just as the Nouvelle Vague was about to shatter the conventions of cinema the conventions of cinema, just as the composers of the minimalist movement had done with the language of music. Nurtured by Ravel and Debussy, the great French pedagogue disciplined yet inquisitive minds, capable of embracing modernity without denying modernity without denying their heritage. The Complete Piano Etudes of Philip Glass is also available for the first time on vinyl, housed in a 4LP Box set (IF 1099LP).

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SHABASON, GILL, DAVIDSON	Horizon	LP	CORBETT VS. DEMPSEY	CVSDLP 014LP
$27.00 IN STOCK Corbett vs. Dempsey presents Horizon, featuring music by Joseph Shabason and Thom Gill as a score for artist David Hartt's film. This vinyl-only project is co-released with Hartt's new imprint, Actualité. It is the label's maiden voyage and exists in a strictly limited edition of 300 copies. Horizon features soundtrack music composed by Canadian multi-instrumentalist and composer Shabason and Toronto-based musician Gill, also featuring vibraphonist/marimbist Michael Davidson. It includes a breathtaking interpretation of the song "Quiet Life," written by David Sylvian and featured on Japan's 1979 record of the same name. Hartt drew the cover image, of a concrete panel used in the curtain wall of the Chateau Champlain, based on archival materials from the Fonds Roger D'Astous, housed at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montréal. He commissioned the British comics artist Lando to make speculative drawings of a future city, specifically with Montréal as its starting point, featuring his nephews. In notes from the exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, where the work was originally shown, curator François LeTourneux writes: "While steering clear of a strictly autobiographical approach, Horizon draws on his personal experience to examine the complex relationship between identity, design, architecture, and urban planning within a specific cultural context and temporal framework. The filmic component of the work explores the daily life of his sister Sue's family, a culturally mixed household like the one in which David and Sue themselves grew up, in Beaconsfield, a suburb of Montréal (of Caribbean descent, they were adopted by English-speaking, Jewish, and white parents). Hartt has described his youth and the socio-cultural context of the time as having been the source of a 'profound sense of alienation,' against which the modernist buildings of the downtown landscape offered a kind of imaginary refuge." Immaculately and painstakingly engineered, mastered, and plated, and pressed on 180-gram vinyl, Horizon plays at 45 rpm, giving the tracks room to breathe and the music space to shine. Impossible to adequately describe, it is as captivating as it is rigorously thought through. A cool, shimmering atmosphere suggesting a utopian soundscape that might be at home in the remade architecture of some near future.

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FULLMAN & THE LIVING EARTH SHOW, ELLEN	Elemental View	CD	ROOM40	RM 4247CD
$17.50 IN STOCK Elemental View is a work in six movements by pioneering composer Ellen Fullman for her "Long String Instrument" and The Living Earth Show. The expansive installation inhabits an industrial sized space with 136 strings, precisely tuned and configured for this multi-movement piece. Listening to the music of Fullman's singular creation is akin to standing inside a giant musical instrument. The result is a music at once ancient and utterly new, environmental, and folk-like yet orchestral; immersing the listener in a transportive glistening atmosphere. Elemental View invites the listener to discover, as if with a magnifying glass, the details of the physics of string vibration itself. Fullman bows the instrument lengthwise with her fingertips while walking, playing multiple strings at once. As she walks, upper partial tones unfold at different rates, in proportion to differences in string length, imparting an undulating wave of continually shifting overtones. The notation for the "Long String Instrument" contains both temporal indications and spatial choreography, as specific harmonies emerge at distinct locations along the string length. Invention and discovery are at the core of Fullman's work. To produce percussive sounds on the otherwise drone-based instrument, Fullman designed and fabricated the box bow, shovelette, and shoveler, which play three, six, or nine strings at once. Varying techniques with these tools produce either open ringing tones or closed dampened ones. With their laser focused precision and virtuosic ensemble playing, The Living Earth Show brilliantly executes the rhythmic and harmonic complexity of Fullman's composition. In the movements "Environmental Memory" and "Concentrated Merry-Go-Round," Fullman incorporates Travis Andrew's primary instrument, the guitar. Andy Meyerson and Fullman accompany the guitar in duo playing box bow and shoveler. For "Surface Narrative in Four Parts," Meyerson also applies his percussion mastery to the santur, a Persian hammered dulcimer. The santur's unique tuning is derived from the extended microtonal partials of the sequence played by Fullman on The Long String Instrument.

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HAFANA, CERYS	Angel	CD	TAK:TIL/GLITTERBEAT	GB 178CD
$16.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL Acclaimed Welsh composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Cerys Hafana's third album, Angel, is a deep exploration of minimalism, traditional and avant-folk music and Hafana's primary instrument the Welsh triple harp. The album alternates between vocal songs (all sung in the Welsh language) and instrumentals, often buoyed by a deft trio of sympathetic and exploratory musicians (drums, double bass, alto sax). The uncommon breadth and innovation of Angel soundly confirms Hafana as one of the UK's most exciting young contemporary folk artists. Their spellbinding music is rich with atmosphere and heart and stubbornly resistant to genre boxes and easy classification. Hafana has been self-releasing their music for a few years, with 2022's Edyf making the Guardian newspaper's Top Ten Folk Album Of The Year list. They also recently had an album of piano pieces called Difrisg released on Instant Karma Classics. Although Hafana is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and considers the piano to be their "main instrument, technically," it's for their work using the Welsh triple harp that they've gained a reputation as an innovative, exploratory, singularly powerful musician. Hafana's harp has a distinct sound, in part because they had the idea of damping the harp's strings using blu-tac to produce a woody, muted sound, after hearing about other harpists threading strips of paper and other material to create a 'buzzy' effect. It's this kind of experimentation that sees them both reach back to artists in the Welsh triple harp tradition like Llio Rhydderch and forward to fellow contemporary artists and sonic adventurers like Rhodri Davies. Hafana's music manages to be immersed in and informed by Welsh harp traditions but also embraces minimalism, jazz, the avant-garde and, particularly on the track "Angel," contemporary Breton folk styles. Hafana says: "on this album I wanted to try to push the musical limits more than I have previously, and to swing between the extremes of dynamics and texture as much as is possible on the instruments at my disposal. Lots of the writing also draws from contemporary Breton folk music with its driving and repetitive dance rhythms, more sparse, contemporary styles of composing and improvising, and some brief moments of very Welsh and traditional harp playing and unaccompanied singing."

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HAFANA, CERYS	Angel	LP	TAK:TIL/GLITTERBEAT	GB 178LP
$31.50 IN STOCK LP version. Acclaimed Welsh composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Cerys Hafana's third album, Angel, is a deep exploration of minimalism, traditional and avant-folk music and Hafana's primary instrument the Welsh triple harp. The album alternates between vocal songs (all sung in the Welsh language) and instrumentals, often buoyed by a deft trio of sympathetic and exploratory musicians (drums, double bass, alto sax). The uncommon breadth and innovation of Angel soundly confirms Hafana as one of the UK's most exciting young contemporary folk artists. Their spellbinding music is rich with atmosphere and heart and stubbornly resistant to genre boxes and easy classification. Hafana has been self-releasing their music for a few years, with 2022's Edyf making the Guardian newspaper's Top Ten Folk Album Of The Year list. They also recently had an album of piano pieces called Difrisg released on Instant Karma Classics. Although Hafana is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and considers the piano to be their "main instrument, technically," it's for their work using the Welsh triple harp that they've gained a reputation as an innovative, exploratory, singularly powerful musician. Hafana's harp has a distinct sound, in part because they had the idea of damping the harp's strings using blu-tac to produce a woody, muted sound, after hearing about other harpists threading strips of paper and other material to create a 'buzzy' effect. It's this kind of experimentation that sees them both reach back to artists in the Welsh triple harp tradition like Llio Rhydderch and forward to fellow contemporary artists and sonic adventurers like Rhodri Davies. Hafana's music manages to be immersed in and informed by Welsh harp traditions but also embraces minimalism, jazz, the avant-garde and, particularly on the track "Angel," contemporary Breton folk styles. Hafana says: "on this album I wanted to try to push the musical limits more than I have previously, and to swing between the extremes of dynamics and texture as much as is possible on the instruments at my disposal. Lots of the writing also draws from contemporary Breton folk music with its driving and repetitive dance rhythms, more sparse, contemporary styles of composing and improvising, and some brief moments of very Welsh and traditional harp playing and unaccompanied singing."

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BENAUD TRIO	Oblivion	CD	DE LA CATESSEN RECORDS	DLC 022CD
$14.50 IN STOCK Benaud Trio celebrate their 20th anniversary year with the release of Oblivion on De la Catessen Records. Oblivion is their sixth studio album since bursting into the world in 2005 with the irresistible fusion of playfulness and professionalism that has characterized their career. Oblivion boasts all the pizazz that made Benaud Trio's previous albums like Mixtape (ABC Classic) and Bohemian Rhapsody (Melba Recordings) so popular, framed by a thoughtful selection of pieces that showcases them at their electrifying best. Chick Corea's modern classic "Spain" leaps out of the timeless classical melody of Rodrigo's "En Aranjeuz con tu Amor," in a fiery arrangement for piano trio by Nicholas Buc. "Closer" by Mark Isaacs was originally created for jazz quintet, and appears here in a warm and lyrical adaptation that sees Benaud Trio carrying its smooth sensibilities into the classical realm. Their readings of Piazolla's "Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas" and "Oblivion" are a smoldering account of his stylistic crucible of tango, jazz, and classical music. Benaud Trio have long been known for their alchemy onstage, fusing disparate qualities together: endurance and youthfulness; sincerity and lightness; playfulness and insight. In Oblivion, Benaud Trio are in their element, exploring fusion of the musical kind, through pieces by composers who share some of the same rare qualities as them.

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SMITH, RAYMOND CHAPMAN	Amir Farid Performs Traktat Vom Licht: Piano Music Of Raymond Chapman Smith	CD	DE LA CATESSEN RECORDS	DLC 018CD
$14.50 IN STOCK "Light is the vehicle of the community -- of the universe. All that is visible clings to the invisible. That which can be heard to that which cannot -- that which can be felt to that which cannot. Perhaps the thinkable to the unthinkable. Like ourselves, the stars float between illumination and darkening in turn -- but even in the state of darkness we are granted, as they are, a consoling, hopeful glimmer of companion stars that are luminous and illuminated." --Novalis, Traktat vom Licht Amir Farid returns to De la Catessen Records with the premiere recordings of Traktat vom Licht/Variations on a Minuet by Mozart -- the second volume in an ongoing survey of endearingly quixotic piano music by Adelaidean composer Raymond Chapman Smith. In this new collection, following on from 2023's Nachschriften/Ländler (DLC 013CD), pianist Amir Farid sheds further light on a fruitful period of Chapman Smith's work, in which he utters in a uniquely mellifluous voice a beautiful old language recognized by so many but spoken by so few. Chapman Smith's musical journey, through Sydney's experimental scene of the early '70s, to his study with Australian modernist doyen Richard Meale, and his leadership of the notorious ACME New Music through the '90s, has led him to -- of all places -- the green pastures of nineteenth century German romanticism, where he invites listeners to join him in thoughtful spiritual contentedness through the current phase of his craft. The title of Chapman Smith's 26-part Traktat vom Licht is borrowed from a cycle of 26 poetic-scientific-metaphysical fragments by Novalis, a crucial voice in the formulation of the first phase of German Romanticism. Written in 2006 as an acknowledgement of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, Variations on a Minuet by Mozart takes the theme from the first piece in Mozart's catalogue -- his K1, written when he was five years old -- and turns it through a set of twelve variations.

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PASCOE & MARTIN	Here Comes Everything	18CD BOX	DE LA CATESSEN RECORDS	DLC 020CD
$115.50 IN STOCK De la Catessen Records presents Here Comes Everything, a monumental 18CD box set marking the long-overdue recording debut of duo Pascoe & Martin. This is De la Catessen's most lavish production to date in its ongoing commitment to unearthing, documenting, and illuminating experimental music from Port Adelaide, Australia. The world of Here Comes Everything is rich, playful, and virtuosic. In its limitless variety it invokes a day-long perspective -- and what a glorious day -- of quotidian experiences, from the wondrous to the mundane. Here Comes Everything is sublime in its reverence of detail; awesome in its cumulative flood of experience; revelatory in its many extemporary dialogues whispered and roared. Each of the 18 parts of this Here Comes Everything is a single long improvisation, named after one of the 18 chapters of Ulysses. James Joyce's schema for Ulysses -- an 18-row chart he devised to help his friends navigate the labyrinth of each chapter's themes and references -- is the structure on which Pascoe & Martin's far-reaching musical epic is based. Here Comes Everything is the saga of two contradictory musical characters in their search for meaning and for each other. Chris Martin's piano is elevated, cabalistic, and rapturous. Derek Pascoe's saxophone is earthy, sensual and profane. Pascoe and Martin's journey in Here Comes Everything is akin to that of Bloom and Dedalus in Ulysses, where the fundamental inspiration for Here Comes Everything can be found. Pascoe & Martin have been honing their craft as a long-form improvising duo for 25 years. Since 2000 their public performances have been unmissable events. Pascoe & Martin continue to challenge and contradict each other in their open-ended Socratic dialogue. Years in the making, yet entirely and thrillingly in the moment, De la Catessen Records presents Here Comes Everything in an edition of just 300 copies. Lavishly illustrated by Michael Hocking with drawings taken from life during 18 recording sessions, Here Comes Everything is not to be missed.

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SATIE, ERIK	Uspud/Cinema	LP	GOD RECORDS	GODREC 074LP
$24.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/15/2025 GOD Records presents its first release from the controversial composer with cult status, Erik Satie. He influenced not only the entire musical language of John Cage but also an entire generation of 20th and 21st century composers, whose influence remains noticeable today. This unique release presents two of his rather obscure and lesser-known, but unique pieces, both composed for visual arts: a movie ("Cinéma") and a ballet ("Uspud"). Renowned Serbian piano player Branka Parlić, famous for her interpretations not only of Satie's works but also of other minimal composers like Philip Glass and Gavin Bryars, shares some of her impressions about the pieces: "'Cinema' is the first example of music scored explicitly for film, frame-by-frame. These facts really interested me, so I started working on it. So far, I have performed 'Cinema' live-to-film Entr'acte many times as part of my concerts. 'Uspud' is a less communicative three-act Christian ballet written for a shadow play back in 1892. This timeless, mystical work drew me in on the first reading, and I was delighted to work on it. Satie offered this piece to the director of the Paris Opera, and after he was rejected, he declared: 'I believe in the appearance of 'Uspud' at the Opera for the winter of 1927, or no later than 1943.' The meaning of the word 'Uspud' is still not fully clarified."

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LANG/OCKEGHEM, KLAUS	Sacred And Secular Songs	LP	GOD RECORDS	GODREC 076LP
$22.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/15/2025 Klaus Lang's compositional approach has always been deeply rooted in the music of old Renaissance masters. Never shy of the that fact, he constantly explores the connections between old and new (old to new). This unique release presents Klaus' fascination with the music of Johannes Ockeghem and it contains harmonium (Klaus' trademark instrument) transcriptions of his sacred and secular songs.

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