"Hans Rudolf Zeller (b. 1934 in Berlin) is best-known for being a music theorist, essayist and writer on contemporary music. His essays on Dieter Schnebel, Iannis Xenakis, microtonality etc., often published in the German journal "Musik-Konzepte", are deemed being among ...
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"Die zwölfte DEGEM-CD setzt sich in ihren Musikbeiträgen mit den vielfältigen Aspekten der Metalle der Seltenen Erden auseinander. Als Seltene Erden bezeichnet man 17 Metalle, die aufgrund ihrer spezifischen Eigenschaften zu unverzichtbaren Rohstoffen für ...
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"The Advisory Circle (aka Jon Brooks) explores darker territory than on 2012's more pastoral As The Crow Flies. This time Brooks hints at a Wyndham-esque science fiction story, where bucolic English scenery is being manipulated and maybe even artificially generated by ...
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""Les Barricades Misterieuses", the harpsichord gem by French Baroque composer François Couperin, has been a long-running source of exploration for Fluxus musician Philip Corner, who for years has used it as a jumping-off point for piano improvisations. Through Two ...
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"Around the theme of the ocean symbolising the subconscious, the hidden world and a very personal concept of "loisivete" a combination of idleness "oisivete" and law "loi", Maninkari continues exploring a weird and dreamlike world. As usual, the Charlot brothers resort ...
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"This is the story of a box. A leather box that is over eighty years old and has lived in three different countries, and on two different continents. It contains over fifty 78 rpm recordings of classical music and opera hits of the day. The box and its contents were ...
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"Limited 4CD Boxset contains all 5 original "Pell Mell" recordings + "Skyrider" + the lost album "Skyrider 2" (previously unreleased!). Digitally remastered. Booklet with extended linernotes and unpublished fotos." (label info)
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the elysian singers of london, cond. matthew greenall. w/ britten, peter maxwell davies, judith weir, robert saxton, john tavener, william walton, john byrt, kenneth leighton, lennox berkeley, francis poulenc
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"UK-based artist Chris Herbert is a man of intermittent communications. Over the past decade he has published a select oeuvre of crushingly lush and elegant records. Fittingly then, Constants, his new edition for Room40 is a transmission from an overtly private realm. ...
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