"There are pieces which must be done. The work LIBERTAD is one of them. Inspired by the lyrics of Tsolagiu M.A. RuizRazo, it is one of those compositions that gave me enormous pleasure while working and that accompanied me with a wave of very great power [...] Perhaps ...
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0001 | WORLD EDITION
"Maria de Alvear writes confrontationally personal music along sexual themes ... the same kind of spiritual revolution that John Cage ... did here 30 years ago. The work Sexo for female narrator/performer and orchestra is a passionate examination of all the taboos and ...
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0003 | WORLD EDITION
"Vagina is the longing for the man. This simple sentence holds enormous secrets, starting with the word longing and not least with the word man. Recognizing a man is probably very difficult from a woman's perspective: for several reasons. The most important sine qua non ...
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0004 | WORLD EDITION
"To me, MARIA DE ALVEAR composes like a natural phenomenon: guided not as much by the coming and going of ideas and emotions, nor addressing them, but like a law of nature impassively displaying a sort of automatic writing that moves the body and courses through the ...
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0005 | WORLD EDITION
"As if an incantantory ritual, Drums Off Chaos and MARIA DE ALVEAR create "acoustic images". The inherent spirit of the object - the essence of the tree comes to life through the interplay of voice and drums, assuming a clear shape in the listener's mind. MARIA DE ...
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0006 | WORLD EDITION
"Journey into the heart of sounds - About 1960, when serialism was pushed into an abundant mathematically structured complexity by composers such as Stockhausen or Boulez, young Ernstalbrecht Stiebler choose a completely different way - a radical backlash to the ...
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0007 | WORLD EDITION
"One day I met something strange on a stroll through the fields not far from the Hungarian border. The corn stood tall and waited to be harvested. The hot summerly east wind went through the fields, and suddenly I heard the hiss. Many had explained it to me but still I ...
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0008 | WORLD EDITION
"To be within the sound - not to expect anything - no beautiful moments - no big emotions - no artfulness- but to follow, from note to note, a sound that carries the music, a sound within the sound: it changes slowly at a tempo that suggests a movement at a great ...
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0030 | WORLD EDITION
"This CD presents for the first time such a large retrospective of the works of Clarence Barlow. The exciting arc of his compositional work, illustrated by the complexity of his pieces, shows the course of his life as a composer." (label info)
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0034 | WORLD EDITION
"Kirsten Reese studied flute, electronic music and composition and lives in Berlin, where she teaches electroacoustic composition at the University of the Arts. In her works Reese often focuses on performative and narrative aspects, as is the case in the three pieces on ...
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0035 | WORLD EDITION
"The composer Udo Moll was accompanied by the story of the ENIAC girls more or less constantly since 2015: different versions of this piece emerged, ranging from solo electronica to ensemble and even a radiophonic soundart version. This cycle of compositions gets ...
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0036 | WORLD EDITION
"The sound composition "Popol Vuh - The Book of the Origin of the Maya" by Götz Naleppa is limited to the first part, "Book of Counsel", the story of creation, in which the cruel and cosmic comedy of creation can be experienced (text version Anja Gundelach). The text - ...
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0037 | WORLD EDITION
BERENGUER, JOSEP MANUEL - DIRECCIONAL O NO, EL PENSAMIENTO MODIFICA LA MATERIA SOBRE LA QUE SE ASIENTA (2CD)
"As far as my artistic memory goes, I have always been fascinated by the boundaries between continuity and discontinuity, between the sayable and the unsayable, between the countable and uncountable; between what can be described completely by an algorithm and what ...
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0038 | WORLD EDITION
"ZOOM - The Zooming is implemented musically; it captures places on the globe that lie in a constantly narrowing field of view around the Kollegienkirche in Salzburg, the site of the piece's premiere. In the north and south, the latitudes represent the boundaries at ...
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0039 | WORLD EDITION
"UN ENT LOS is a composition of a total of 36 electroacoustic miniatures, for which Johannes S. Sistermanns has drawn from his wide-ranging audio archive. The material of his composed, fleeting sound moments are sounds of the numerous musical instruments he plays and ...
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0042 | WORLD EDITION
"On Mature Hybird Talking Frank Gratkowski, one of the world's most advanced and original voices in the field of improvised music, teams up for the first time with one of the leading ensembles for composed contemporary music. He dedicates this 45-minute piece to James ...
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0043 | WORLD EDITION
"One of Carola Bauckholt's major talents is the gift of attentive and passionate listening. Through persistent research, she uncovers the hidden musical potential of ambient sounds such as the gurgling of a fountain, a grinding crank, birds, dogs, construction machinery ...
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0044 | WORLD EDITION
". This record is divided into two sections. The first part is the title track and takes up most of side one. Ali's Smile was first published in 1971 and was privately released as a one-sided LP, in an edition of 99 copies. It came in a plain sleeve with a hardback copy ...
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PD36 | PARADIGM DISCS
Reissue, previously released in 1980 on David Toop's Quartz label at a time when improvised music in London was settling into a long spell of excellence. The players here are Steve Beresford, Peter Cusack, Terry Day, and David Toop. Terry had been a member of The People ...
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PD37 | PARADIGM DISCS
Coming eight years after Volume 2 and 23 years after the first installment, Volume 3 of Music And Words is the fourth solo release by Adam Bohman on Paradigm Discs. All four releases have focused on his earliest recordings, mostly from the '80s, mostly domestic and all ...
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PD38 | PARADIGM DISCS
"Paradigm Discs have not had a physical release by composer and ecologist Michael Prime since the release of Borneo in 2007. This new three-CD set brings us up to date with a series of recordings from across the years. It also sees a new refinement in his working ...
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PD39 | PARADIGM DISCS
"Gentle Fire were a six-, then five-member group of composers/improvisers/performers based in London and Yorkshire. Most of the writings that cover the pioneers of experimental, electronic, and improvised music have given them scant attention. In addition to this, their ...
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PD35 | PARADIGM DISCS
"Formed in Cambridge in 1969 by Tim Souster and Roger Smalley, Intermodulation started out as a four-piece group with the addition of Robin Thompson and Andrew Powell (who soon moved on to other Cambridge projects, including a pre-Chris Cutler Henry Cow). Powell was ...
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PD40 | PARADIGM DISCS
"The collaboration between Anthony Moore and filmmaker David Larcher began in the late '60s, at the start of both their respective careers and lasted many years. Following on from the 2024 release of the soundtrack to Mare's Tail (PD 041LP) (the first collaboration with ...
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PD42 | PARADIGM DISCS
"KMusic for Intersecting Planes marks the first collaborative release between cellist Leila Bordreuil and organist Kali Malone. Minimal in means yet expansive in effect, the music unfolds like beads on a thread, punctuated by silence and deep breaths. Shifting currents ...
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SOMA065 | IDEOLOGIC ORGAN
