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The Music of...Larry Polansky is a marvelous combination of the mathematical and the expressive. The blend is so seamless, in fact, that it serves to point out the absurdity of regarding those two strains as...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 18, 2017

$32.99

This three-CD reissue of the noted series of seven 10-inch vinyl EPs that Cold Blue released in the early 1980s (during the label’s short-lived initial incarnation) was a Gramophone magazine “Critic’s Choice” in 2004. Extraordinary...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 01, 2003

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This is an essential collection of West Coast music that San Francisco’s Other Minds founder and longtime KPFA radio host Charles Amirkhanian called “a classic anthology of American new music.” Although bound together by a...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 01, 2002

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A Sweet Quasimodo is a stunning work for two grand pianos played simultaneously by the composer in a tremolo style that Palestine calls “strumming,” a technique that has defined his piano music since the late...

Format: CD

Release Date: January 01, 2007

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For thirty years, composer Peter Garland’s music has been marked by a radical consonance and a simplification of formal structure. These two spirited and enticing quartets, entitled In Praise of Poor Scholars and Crazy Cloud,...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 01, 2009

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Quiet, sometimes lyric, sometimes pensive music: John Luther Adams’s Dark Wind, for bass clarinet, vibraphone, marimba, and piano, joined with music for clarinet/bass clarinet and string quartet by Rick Cox, Michael Jon Fink, and Jim...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 01, 2002

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Michael Byron’s music is one of contrasts, noted for its intertwining of minimalist and maximalist techniques and rigorous processes with freely composed music. It uniquely reconciles traditional notions of beauty with boisterous, almost-out-of-control instrumental writing....

Format: CD

Release Date: March 01, 2003

$10.99

Fragile, haunting music for trombones, strings and piano, a music of rarefied and quietly rumbling harmonies that, like drifting clouds, seem to float in and out of “view.” This 23-minute CD EP offers music that...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 01, 2004

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Marty Walker performs music for clarinet and bass clarinet written for him by composers Daniel Lentz, Peter Garland, Jim Fox, Michael Jon Fink, Rick Cox, and Michael Byron. Performing with Walker are noted new music...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 01, 2001

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Descansos, past is moody, intimate “in memoriam” music featuring double bass amid a choir of nine cellos led by new-music-champion cellist Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick. A 15-minute CD EP/single. “Lush bleakness that evokes the windswept open spaces...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 01, 2005

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Lush, casually evolving, elusively shaped music for guitar, piano, bass, and electronics. This 25-minute CD EP/single features the composer’s idiosyncratic guitar playing and performances by Thomas Newman (the noted film composer) and Peter Freeman. “One...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 01, 2005

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Chas Smith—composer, inventor, instrument builder, and performer—has created his own musical world, complete with its own instruments and “language.” It is a world of carefully sculpted textures that never sit absolutely still, but are always...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 01, 2003

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Music that combines equal measures of beauty and grit. Moody, elusively shaped textural music that is compelling from its very first violin note to its final shimmer of decaying cymbals. This 29-minute CD EP/single is...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 01, 2004

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This recording brings together two of Los Angeles-based composer Fox’s haunting electro-acoustic works, The Copy of the Drawing, for spoken voice and electronics, and Last Things, for bass clarinet, pedal steel guitar, piano, and electronics....

Format: CD

Release Date: November 01, 2000

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Composer/performer/instrument designer Smith’s exotic compositional textures here utilize the same unique instruments that he employed on his popular earlier recording Nikko Wolverine. These include resonators that sprout bowed and struck rods; large, clangorous titanium sculptures;...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 01, 2001