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Spare, undulating music written for a dance/theater work entitled Shelter. Three violas casually stroll through their notes leading to an alluring voice and piano music that acts as an extended coda to the string music...

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Release Date: May 01, 2004

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This collection of intimate, eerily beautiful music by Dutch composer Fahres weaves naturally occurring acoustic phenomena with the playing of celebrated performers. The title piece features the breathy sounds emitted by the rock tube formations...

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Release Date: January 01, 2007

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Chas Smith, a maverick West Coast composer in the spirit of Harry Partch and Harry Bertoia, creates much of his music from instruments of his own design and own tuning. The first two pieces on...

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Release Date: November 01, 2000

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Composer/performer/instrument-builder Smith offers strangely beautiful and compelling soundscapes scored for his unique sound-sculptural instruments, steel guitar and electronics. Dan Warburton wrote in Paris Transatlantic, “Chas Smith's pedal steel and 12-string dobro are as evocative and...

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Release Date: February 01, 2006

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For more than two decades, Polansky, who the Village Voice called “the heir apparent to the Cowell/Nancarrow/Tenney genius experimentalist mantle,” has been composing a series of fascinating mensuration canons (a formal concept dating back to...

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Release Date: November 01, 2002

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Music for solo piano, solo celesta, multiple clarinets, and electronic instruments. The fragile piano works and the celesta piece display Los Angeles-based composer Fink’s command of forms that are Debussyian in beauty (and occasionally in...

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Release Date: May 01, 2001

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Cold Blue Two is an anthology of fourteen new, previously unrecorded works—many of them written just for this CD. Enthralling music by John Luther Adams, Gavin Bryars, Rick Cox, Michael Jon Fink, Jim Fox, Peter...

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Release Date: October 01, 2012

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Australian composer Whittington’s subtle, sublime, and beautiful work for string quartet alludes to Erik Satie’s “furniture music” (musique d’ameublement). The composer writes, “I was interested in the airport departure lounge as an arena for human...

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Release Date: September 01, 2013

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The three pieces by New York-based composer Byron that are collected here (two for strings and keyboards and one for four pianos) are dramatic, lush, insistent, and lovely and reveal their compositional processes as they...

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Release Date: November 01, 2000

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This album presents to of Australian composer Stephen Whittington's stunningly beautiful string quartets: his elegant, eclectic seven-movement...from a thatched hut and his evocative, haunting Windmill. Stephen Whittington is a composer whose very personal music combines...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 18, 2017

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Peter Garland is a composer, world traveler, musicologist, writer whose music is always informed by his well-traveled ear and strong sense of personal vision. (His music has appeared on five previous Cold Blue CDs.) After...

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Release Date: October 01, 2015

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This boisterously churning music for three pianos is rich with dense, sometimes shimmering, sometimes rumbling tremolos set off by moments of light, twinkling quietude. (Written in 1984, Black Water was premiered the following year at...

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Release Date: September 01, 2013

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Nakadai, which KPFA Folio/Other Minds Radio called “one of the most explosive LPs of the Eighties,” is a set of works that offer a veritable catalog of musical “waves”—from ripples to tsunamis. It features Smith...

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Release Date: November 01, 2008

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The composer writes about Ecstatic Descent: “Every note of the piano is altered (“prepared”) with bolts, screws, strips of rubber, cardboard, and paper- transforming the instrument into a miniature percussion orchestra… On this singular instrument...

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Release Date: January 20, 2017

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Composer Christopher Roberts’s four serene yet deeply emotive pieces for solo qin (a Chinese zither-like instrument) are quiet, sparce, slightly eerie, almost Feldmanesque. Performed by the composer, who learned the qin while living and teaching...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 01, 2009