«Songs and Structures», de Harold Meltzer. Short-listed for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music (won by Steve Reich with Double Sextet), the American Harold Meltzer (New York, 1966) is one of the most pronounced musical personalities of his generation. This recording is made up of sixteen recent pieces, both vocal…

“Structures of Light and Spruce”, by Malin Bång. Swedish composer Malin Bång (Sävedalen, 1974) is one of the most powerful personalities on the international experimental scene today. In 2003 she founded the chamber orchestra Curious Chamber Players, which works both with conventional instruments and with amplified found objects and modified…

“Again and Again”, by Company of Music. The Little Match Girl is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s most famous (and sad) fairy tales and the starting point for Little Match Girl Passion, one of the most acclaimed musical works by the American composer David Lang (Los Angeles, 1957), co-founder of Bang on a Can,…

“5 Klavierstücke”, by Irmin Schmidt. Classically trained, Irmin Schmidt (Berlin, 1937) is best known as the founder (in 1968) of the legendary krautrock band Can. His solo career, on the other hand, has focused on the creation of soundtracks (more than forty) and he also has an opera to his…

“Extreemizms”, by Philip Corner. Philip Corner (New York, 1933) is one of the most outstanding musicians, artists and theorists of the neo-Dadaist scene of the 1960s known as Fluxus. The nine pieces included in Extreemizms cover the temporal “extremes” of his production: four are from 1958 and the other five…

Mattin Artiach launches “Songbook #7”, a tribute to French anarchist Germaine Berton. The Spanish composer, Berlin based, Mattin Artiach is the author of a very extensive discography -in the manner of Throbbing Gristle, who recorded even their rehearsals in the Factory of Death and released countless live recordings of their…

“Contemporary Chaos Practices”, by Ingrid Laubrock. Sometimes, the paths of jazz and contemporary music converge without difficulty. The German saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock (Stadlohn, 1970) collaborates, in fact, with countless projects, some of them in the field of rock (Polar Bear, Siouxsie & the Banshees). He has lived in New York…

“Stockhausen: Klavierstücke I-XI”, by S. Liebner. Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) has gone down in history as the most radical visionary of the “music of the future”, and as one of the pillars of contemporary electroacoustic, aleatoric and integral serialist music. His fame was cemented above all in the fields of electroacoustics…

“Electroacoustic works”, by Clemens Reusner. Contemporary electroacoustic music is often the work of composers who are also very close to technological fields. The German Clemens Von Reusner (Vechelde, 1957) is a composer and computer scientist (software programmer). The current compositions of Electroacoustic Works (seven pieces lasting over an hour), almost…

“Julius Eastman: Piano Interpretations”, by Kukuruz Quartet. In recent years the figure of the American minimalist composer Julius Eastman (who died in 1990 at the age of forty-nine) has been rediscovered by scholars and musicians alike. The Swiss Kukuruz Quartet is part of this large group of performers determined to…

“Muunduja”, by Maarja Nuut & Ruum. The enormous figure of Arvo Pärt (alive and kicking at the age of 83) is the most prominent figure on the Estonian music scene of the 20th and 21st centuries. In an ascending phase, the young singer and violinist Maarja Nuut – born in…