The Art of Surrender marks a return to life, sown from primal impulses and hard-won emotional truths. Unrestrained melodic rapture soars above a relentless kick drum, speaking a need to move, to dance, to love. The music is as ambitious as it's origins are personal. Tignor plays with scale, crafting multi-movement epics alongside one-minute miniatures. The smallest, most fragile violin gestures, where the finger barely touches the string to extract natural harmonics exist side by side with angular, exotic melodies, asymmetric rhythms, and rapid-fire string crossings. On this LP, Tignor digs even more deeply into the violin and it's technicolor reimaginings under his electroacoustic treatments. The album title refers to the creative process of letting go of expectations, submitting to the will of the creative process. Following a collapsed relationship that left Tignor alone half-time with his daughter, this period was also one of surrendering to a dark unknown, rebuilding life's basic meanings from passion and creative will. Likewise, Tignor's unwavering approach to live performance embraces the rewards of taking risks: using his custom setup with meticulously controlled violin processing and drum triggered synths, this LP, like it's predecessors, was created without pre-recorded tracks or live looping, allowing bodily gesture to invite audiences into the process of music making. The first single, Ritual of a Thousand Limbs is a reference to the extended solo electro-acoustic instrument Tignor has created, processing his violin through software using pedals that also perform synths, an instrument played with both feet and hands including a kick drum with custom triggering software. Likewise, the title alludes to the 1000 arms and hands of the Avalokiteshvara, a bodhisattva associated with compassion. The song weaves back and forth between this impulse and it's more somatic, lustful urges, a study in the duality of desire and acceptance. The video for the work is a collaboration with girlfriend Rachelle Somma, who's unique, award-winning approach to dance blends pole-dancing with modern forms to create a spellbinding interpretation completely unique to both mediums. Off-Centered Hearts imagines a pas de deux between lovers yearning, like so many, to make their own asymmetrical ways of being fit as one. The work's spellbinding dance contains some of the album's most breathtaking, quietest confessional moments, planting seeds which eventually bloom into a huge, lyrical release driven by processed violin octaves above profound, kick-drum triggered bass. Forms in a Flame, elides multiple scenes together to create the album's largest scale journey, ambitiously blending heartrending synth and violin elligies alongside hyper-rhythmic, dovetailing counterpoint built from Tignor's interactive "mirrored violin" processing. In contrast, the album's one minute closer, Would that I Could is Tignor at his most concise, leaving listeners with a perfect parting prayer, suggesting we discover which, if any, ideals we might consider worthy of surrender.
ART OF SURRENDER
$27.99
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WESTERN VINYL
Sep 29, 2023
WVNL251.1
BLUTT
PAN
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$25.99
May 14, 2021
Conceived at the heel of Italy's boot-shaped peninsula in Apulia, Patrick Belaga's Blutt makes music for the unruly imagination. The title is an old German word for 'naked', 'bare', but it can also mean 'blood' when spelt blut. Take away another letter and it makes 'butt'. None of these definitions and adaptations were what prompted the classically-trained composer and cellist to name his second album with a word simulating the sound of a punctured artery. That came later. Blutt's nine woozy compositions are inspired by a contemplative road trip with a friend, and the mysterious muffled music heard from an unidentified source. It was a combination of jazz and classical music that haunted Belaga's wanderings through the Byzantine town Gallipoli, and soon infected his dreams of long-gone civilizations. This record is it's outcome, where organic instrumentals and electronic production merge into a sound that's both contemporary and ancient. Samples of mewing incantations and tape hiss sway atop the waltzing thud of piano chords on "Sigh". Composite layers of Belaga's cello play in downcast harmony on "Rust". There's a wistful sense for the romantic, in the eerie rhythm of a piece like "Momentum". The quarter tones of an Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk scale probe a profound melancholy via Kai Knight's violin. It's notes are haunted by a field recording of running water on "Unsoft", echoes of panpipes and a Jew's harp on opener "Lilt". As a consummate composer and performer known for his work with artists Wu Tsang, boychild, Josh Johnson and Asma Maroof, Belaga's Blutt is itself marked by flawless collaborations. Vocalist and instrumentalist Jazmin Romero sings and composes the surreal melodies of "Grey Eye". Multidisciplinary dance artist and producer Riley Watts contributes to the muted, motorik movement of "The Tunnel is a Tower". Together, the record plays as a stunning soundtrack to the strangeness of sleeping, and the heartbreaking transience of time. Like an intense dream half-remembered, the emotions persist after waking but for the sharp machinations just outside of the mind's reach. The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Giovanni Furlino & design by N MRE 08.
BLUTT
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PAN
May 14, 2021
PANR117.1
BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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$15.99
Apr 05, 2024
Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.
BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE
$15.99
CD
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Apr 05, 2024
UNIJ3162805.2
BAKUNAWA
DEATHBOMB ARC
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$25.99
Jan 15, 2021
Vinyl LP pressing. White Boy Scream is the experimental classical project from opera singer and composer Micaela Tobin. On her latest release, Bakunawa, she dissects her voice through the use of electronics as a means of exploring identity and ancestral trauma. Bakunawa is an homage to the pre-colonial mythology of her motherland, the Philippines. Part sonic ritual, part diasporic storytelling. Micaela Tobin is currently on Faculty as a Voice Instructor at the California Institute for the Arts.
BAKUNAWA
$25.99
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DEATHBOMB ARC
Jan 15, 2021
DBBA231.1
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: CHRISTMAS
WARNER BROS UK
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$31.49
Nov 25, 2022
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: CHRISTMAS
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: CHRISTMAS
$31.49
DVD
WARNER BROS UK
Nov 25, 2022
WBUK4245099DVD
MARCHES & OVERTURES A LA FRANCAISE
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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$16.49
Apr 05, 2024
Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.
MARCHES & OVERTURES A LA FRANCAISE
$16.49
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Apr 05, 2024
UNIJ3162802.2
NOCHE
PIAS AMERICA
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$32.99
Oct 20, 2023
Following the international success of PLANET and LETTER, pianist Sofiane Pamart presents his third solo album, NOCHE. His first work was a trip around the world, the second was a love letter addressed directly to his audience, and this third project will plunge you into the depths of the night. Always nomadic by nature, always keen to cherish the strong bond he has forged with his audience, Sofiane Pamart is back this time after an adventure of several months spent in Latin America, where he composed the entirety of this new album. Now firmly established as a star pianist, he delivers 15 new compositions featuring all the ingredients that have forged his universe: travel, poetry, melancholy, romance, snarls and mystery.
NOCHE
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PIAS AMERICA
Oct 20, 2023
PIAA450.1
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: CHRISTMAS
WARNER BROS UK
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$31.49
Nov 25, 2022
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: CHRISTMAS
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: CHRISTMAS
$31.49
Blu-Ray
WARNER BROS UK
Nov 25, 2022
WBUK4245093BR
MACHAUT: 2 POLYPHONIC LAIS
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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$16.49
Apr 05, 2024
Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.
MACHAUT: 2 POLYPHONIC LAIS
$16.49
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UNIVERSAL JAPAN
Apr 05, 2024
UNIJ3162793.2
OCEAN FLOOR
LSO LIVE
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$27.99
Apr 12, 2024
In 1781, the Zong - a British slave ship - left Ghana with twice the number it was designed to carry, bound for Jamaica. The ship's owners claimed that drinking water was running low, and ordered the crew to throw more than 130 living enslaved people overboard. Over 200 years later, Jamaica has become a place of significance for Witter-Johnson. As a young child, she often spent her six-week summer holiday visiting extended family in Jamaica, taking trips to a favorite beach on the south coast. It was here that she witnessed a terrible fatal accident at one end of the beach, yet at the other end, a baptism and celebration was taking place. Witter-Johnson explores this spectrum of events tied together by their central themes of ancestry, family and the ocean, noting that even amidst the darkness of death, there is still room for joy. Combining alternative R&B with classical, and with influences from soul, hip hop and reggae, Ayanna Witter-Johnson is the definition of an eclectic soul. Th
OCEAN FLOOR
$27.99
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LSO LIVE
Apr 12, 2024
LSOL5122.1
R.KORSAKOV: SCHEHERAZADE
IMPORTS
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$16.49
Mar 25, 2014
Japanese CD pressing. 2014.
R.KORSAKOV: SCHEHERAZADE
$16.49
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IMPORTS
Mar 25, 2014
IMT1095749
ON GIACOMETTI - SECOND EDITION
STRUT RECORDS
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$35.49
Sep 08, 2023
Hania Rani announces a second edition of 'On Giacometti', pressed on black vinyl with revised artwork and packaging. This new pressing follows the initial limited-edition pressing of On Giacometti that sold out on release. A1. Allegra A2. Spring A3. Stampa A4. Struggle A5. Morning A6. In Between A7. Knots A8. Dreamy B1. Storm B2. Time B3. Mountains B4. Annette B5. Alberto
ON GIACOMETTI - SECOND EDITION
$35.49
Vinyl
STRUT RECORDS
Sep 08, 2023
SUT59A.1
TCHAIKOVSKY / MENDELSSOHN: VIOLIN CONCERTOS
DECCA CLASSICS
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$10.49
Mar 26, 2021
Japanese reissue. Decca. 2020
TCHAIKOVSKY / MENDELSSOHN: VIOLIN CONCERTOS
$10.49
CD
DECCA CLASSICS
Mar 26, 2021
DCCL5686282.2
HOLST: THE PLANETS
WARNER CLASSICS
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$28.99
Aug 07, 2020
Vinyl LP pressing. Holst's Planets is a hi-fi test piece par excellence. The music explores every nuance and dynamic of which a modern symphony orchestra is capable. When reproduced at a realistic volume level with full frequency range, the music has a stunning emotional impact - at times savage - at other times beguiling. The piece has been recorded many times since it's 1918 debut under Sir Boult's baton but it's colours never glowed more brilliantly than in this performance.
HOLST: THE PLANETS
$28.99
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WARNER CLASSICS
Aug 07, 2020
WCL525374.1
EIN HELDENLEBEN
RCO LIVE HOLLAND
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$24.49
Feb 24, 2005
EIN HELDENLEBEN
EIN HELDENLEBEN
$24.49
DVD
RCO LIVE HOLLAND
Feb 24, 2005
RCOV837979DVD
GIVE IT TO THE SKY: ARTHUR RUSSELLS TOWER OF
ERASED TAPES
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Oct 06, 2023
This autumn, Erased Tapes are set to release 'Give It to the Sky: Arthur Russell's Tower of Meaning Expanded' by composer and producer Peter Broderick and French 12-piece group Ensemble 0; a complete re-recording of Russell's epic minimalist orchestral composition originally released in 1983. Released 6th October, 'Give It to the Sky' also includes unreleased tracks by Russell which have been restored and re-recorded, resulting in an 80-minute reanimation that threads several lost songs into a meticulous and gorgeous rendering. Ensemble 0 weave in and out of Broderick's additions. 'Corky', a poignant cowboy ballad that Russell never finished, appears, disappears, and reappears three times, the droning exhalations of 'Tower of Meaning' making it feel sweeter and sadder. Arriving just after the triumphant halfway mark, the title track is a sublime meditation on mere existence, about staring at some simple rural scene and marcelling at the miracle of being anywhere at all. It is an apt encapsulation of how this entire project feels - a glorious way to hear something that might have seemed familiar as if for the very first time. Russell was never much for definitive versions, of course. He was constantly rethinking the possibilities of a piece, of wondering what else it could do. 'Give it to the Sky' is a powerful affirmation of those principles, using Tower of Meaning's framework to build outward and upward, to shape something that functions within Russell's wondrous, paradoxical world. And 'Give it to the Sky' is also not intended to be some definitive last word. Broderick and Ensemble 0 speak already of the ways it may shift on stage, of where else it might lead. 1. Tower of Meaning I 2. Tower of Meaning II 3. Tower of Meaning III 4. Tower of Meaning IV 5. Corky I / White Jet Set Smoke Trail I 6. Consideration 7. Tower of Meaning V 8. Tower of Meaning VI 9. Tower of Meaning VII 10. Tower of Meaning VIII 11. Tower of Meaning IX / Corky II 12. Tower of Meaning X 13. Give It to the Sky 14. Tower of Meaning XI 15. Tower of Meaning XII 16. Corky III 17. White Jet Smoke Trail II
GIVE IT TO THE SKY: ARTHUR RUSSELLS TOWER OF
$42.99
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ERASED TAPES
Oct 06, 2023
ERAT161.1
LA NEF DES FOUS
RECOLLECTION GRM
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$27.99
Feb 09, 2024
LA NEF DES FOUS
LA NEF DES FOUS
$27.99
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RECOLLECTION GRM
Feb 09, 2024
RGRM29.1
PIANO CONCERTO 5 EMPEROR
CHASING THE DRAGON
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$66.49
Aug 16, 2019
At Chasing The Dragon, we have started to release a series of Live Beethoven concert recordings. For our second, we present the wonderful pianist John Lenehan in an amazing performance of the Piano Concerto No. 5. John's playing, combined with the Locrian Ensemble of London, was an incredible event. I have recorded it using only 4 microphones, in an effort for you to connect directly with the jump factor we all felt on that very cold February evening! Part of the Live Beethoven Series On 180g 33RPM Vinyl LP!
PIANO CONCERTO 5 EMPEROR
$66.49
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CHASING THE DRAGON
Aug 16, 2019
CHDG11.1
SCHUBERT: PIANO QUINTET IN A OP 114 D667
UNIVERSAL JAPAN
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$17.49
Dec 15, 2023
Westminster Legacy UHQCD Series. Features UHQCD format. *UHQCD (Ultimate High Quality CD) is an upgraded version of HQCD, a high fidelity CD format developed by Memory-Tech. Universal. 2023.
