LOVELY MUSIC
"A series of three pieces/suites; 'Leapday Night', 'A Traveler's Dream Journal', and 'Interspecies Smalltalk' involving Rhys Chatham/Ben Neill (on trumpet/mutantrumpet), Fluxus mainstay Takeisha Kosugi (violin), and Behrman himself on electronics. 'The system consists ...
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LCD1042 | LOVELY MUSIC
"Lovely Music present a reissue of David Behrman's On the Other Ocean, originally issued as one of Lovely Music's first six releases in 1978. This newly-mastered LP is a must-have for Behrman aficionados or a perfect introduction to his work. Recorded at the Center for ...
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LML1041LP | LOVELY MUSIC
"Lovely Music presents a reissue of Robert Ashley's Private Parts, originally issued in 1978. This newly mastered LP release is a must-have for aficionados as well as a perfect introductory work to Ashley's oeuvre. Among Lovely Music's first six releases, it came to be ...
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LML1001LP | LOVELY MUSIC
"Perfect Lives has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s." At its center is the hypnotic voice of Robert Ashley. His continuous song narrates the events of the story and describes a 1980's update of the mythology of small town ...
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LCD4917.3 | LOVELY MUSIC
"Jetsun Mila (1986) is inspired by the life of Milarepa, a great yogi and poet of Tibet who lived in the 11th Century. The story of his life as told to his closest disciple, Rechungpa, represents one of the most famous works within Tibetan culture. The Mila Kabum, or ...
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LCD2003 | LOVELY MUSIC
"Flutist Held presents works by Alvin Lucier, Nils Vigeland, and Yasunao Tone and a composition of her own. Known for her collaborations with composers, Held has beautifully chosen and performed this wide-ranging sampling of contemporary musical styles. 1. Nils ...
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LCD3031 | LOVELY MUSIC
"Whereas all of his previous compositions were fully notated, William Duckworth wanted to take advantage of alto saxophonist Michael Swartz's improvisational skills. Basic units of material, melodies both traditionally and graphically notated, are to be repeated ...
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LCD2032 | LOVELY MUSIC
"Thomas Buckner, baritone, with Leroy Jenkins, viola; Joseph Kubera, piano; J.D. Parran, bass clarinet; Stefani Starin, flute; David Wessel, synthesizer; Orchestra of the SEM Ensemble, Petr Kotik, conductor. This CD contains works by William Duckworth, Thomas Buckner, ...
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LCD3023 | LOVELY MUSIC
Thomas Buckner, vocals; Tony Barrero, trumpet; Jon Gibson, clarinet/flute; J.D. Parran, bass clarinet and baritone saxophone; "Blue" Gene Tyranny, synthesizer; Joseph Kubera, piano; Tom Hamilton, synthesizer; Michael Pugliese, timpani and percussion. 1. Robert Ashley, ...
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LCD3021 | LOVELY MUSIC
Thomas Buckner, baritone; Stefani Starin, flute, alto flute and khaen; Jon Gibson, soprano saxophone; Leroy Jenkins, viola; Joseph Kubera, piano; Bill Ruyle, percussion. 1. Jon Gibson, Running Commentary (Arbitrary Excerpts) (22:02) 2. Annea Lockwood, The Angle of ...
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LCD3022 | LOVELY MUSIC
The three works on Other Places share the ability to expand the performer's and listener's musical parameters in unique ways. Elodie Lauten's Variations on the Orange Cycle is a richly-textured combination of transcribed improvisation and intentional notation that ...
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LCD3052 | LOVELY MUSIC
"The Gregg Smith Singers, chorus; assisted by The Rooke Chapel Choir of Bucknell University; A post-minimalist reworking of hymns from the famous 1854 edition of the eponymous hymn collection, one of the staple sources for shaped-note singing. It's a translation from a ...
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LCD2033 | LOVELY MUSIC
"Double CD of all 5 of Radigue's songs in tribute to the Tibetan saint and poet from the eleventh century. Two of the tracks date from an 1983 LP (Radigue's first release), two are previously unreleased and the final 62-minute track was previously issued as a sole CD in ...
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LCD2001 | LOVELY MUSIC
"In this fascinating exploration of acoustical phenomena, Alvin Lucier slips from the domain of language to that of music in the course of 40 minutes and 32 repetitions of a simple paragraph of text. In I am sitting in a room, several sentences of recorded speech are ...
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LCD1013 | LOVELY MUSIC
