Cold Blue Music

  • Thomas Newman, Rick Cox: 35 Whirlpools Below Sound
    Thomas Newman, Rick Cox: 35 Whirlpools Below Sound

    $18.99

    35 Whirlpools Below Sound presents a fantastical soundworld of 19 short, richly detailed, multilayered electro-acoustic soundscapes jointly composed by Newman and Cox, whose musical friendship and ongoing working relationship date back to 1985. These enigmatic...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 01, 2014

  • Rick Cox: Maria Falling Away
    Rick Cox: Maria Falling Away

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    Six elegant, dark, sensuous soundscapes in which emotions seem to bubble just below cool surfaces. Harmonically rich and texturally subtle music that features idiosyncratic electric guitar playing techniques developed by composer/performer Cox, whom noted guitarist-composer...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 01, 2001

  • On The Leopard Altar / Daniel Lentz
    On The Leopard Altar / Daniel Lentz

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    Includes work(s) by Daniel Lentz. Soloists: Daniel Lentz, Jessica Lowe, Susan James, Bradford Ellis, David Kuehn, Arlene Dunlap.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 01, 2006

  • Lentz: River of 1000 Streams / Ray
    Lentz: River of 1000 Streams / Ray

    $18.99

    River of 1,000 Streams is a wild new piece for piano and up to 11 ''cascading echoes'' that stack up to create dense sonic torrents, as well as more delicate textures. Performed by renowned pianist...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 18, 2017

  • Lentz: Point Conception, Nightbreaker / Bryan Pezzone, Arlene Dunlap
    Lentz: Point Conception, Nightbreaker / Bryan Pezzone, Arlene Dunlap

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    LENTZ Point Conception. 1 NightBreaker 2 • Arlene Dunap (pn); 1 Bryn Pezzone (pn) 2 • COLD BLUE 28 (46:22) Daniel Lentz was particularly active and visible in the 1970s and 1980s, as one of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 01, 2008

  • Kyle Gann: Long Night / Sarah Cahill
    Kyle Gann: Long Night / Sarah Cahill

    $10.99

    This exquisite, mobile-like, ever-focus-shifting music for three pianos is wonderfully performed by noted new-music champion Sarah Cahill. A 25-minute CD EP/Single. “If this is a long night, let it go on and on.” [Marc Geelhoed,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 01, 2005

  • John Luther Adams: The Place We Began
    John Luther Adams: The Place We Began

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    Post-minimalist John Luther Adams--not to be confused with "Nixon in China" composer John Adams--creates luminous musical worlds inspired by nature, particularly the landscapes of his adopted home, Alaska. THE PLACE WE BEGAN contains four evocative...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 01, 2009

  • John Luther Adams: Red Arc/Blue Veil
    John Luther Adams: Red Arc/Blue Veil

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    Nothing and everything. Nowhere and everywhere. Somewhere in the distance two pianos are playing. Slowly, very slowly, the sound comes towards you, and just as inevitably the sound recedes. This takes twelve and a half...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 01, 2007

  • John Luther Adams: Four Thousand Holes
    John Luther Adams: Four Thousand Holes

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    Adams, a Pulitzer-winning composer, writes music that draws much of it's inspiration from earth's primal forms and forces. These large, elemental concepts are never far below the surface of the music on Four Thousand Holes....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 01, 2011

  • Hobbs: Sudoku 82 / Bryan Pezzone
    Hobbs: Sudoku 82 / Bryan Pezzone

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    Very special music. I have been an admirer of Hobbs’s music for some 25 years now. He is always creating music which is subversive – as do Laurence Crance, Gavin Bryars and John White –...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 01, 2009

  • Daniel Lentz: Los Tigres De Marte
    Daniel Lentz: Los Tigres De Marte

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    Swirling music with wildly branching roots that touch everything from Debussy and Delius to bop to techno. Sometimes lush and enveloping, sometimes brittle and percussive; sometimes suspended and motionless, sometimes agitated. This 16-minute CD EP...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 01, 2004

  • John Luther Adams: Houses of the Wind
    John Luther Adams: Houses of the Wind

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    “Houses of the Wind” is a haunting, five-movement electro-acoustic piece that critically acclaimed composer Adams created from his field recording of an aeolian harp (wind harp) played by the Arctic winds 30 years ago. Over...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 17, 2022

  • Smith: Three / Smith
    Smith: Three / Smith

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    “Three” collects three shimmering new works by composer-performer-instrument builder Chas Smith, a musician who has created his own musical world--complete with its own unique instruments--a world of expansive musical tapestries and carefully sculpted textures. This...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 15, 2021

  • Sargent: Separation Songs / Eclipse Quartet
    Sargent: Separation Songs / Eclipse Quartet

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    Ever wonder what two centuries colliding sounds like? “Separation Songs” is a haunting album-length work for two string quartets. It juxtaposes and weaves together an array of 18th-century composer William Billings’s hymn tunes, altering them...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 25, 2019

  • John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places
    John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places

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    Critically acclaimed composer John Luther Adams, who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Music, offers the first recordings of three of his recent string works: two string quartets, featuring the much-lauded JACK Quartet, and a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 2015