Regler releases its album “Regel #10 (Minimalism)”
Almost six years after its recording, “Regel #10 (Minimalism)” by the Spanish-Swedish duo Regler is released. In the avant-garde world, obscurity is almost the norm. Tracking down interviews, articles or album reviews/comments is an odyssey, and if you manage to find a website near you, you don’t manage to scrape…
Mivos Quartet performs the music of JG Thirlwell
Cantaloupe Music releases “Dystonia”, an album in which Mivos Quartet performs the music of J. G. Thirlwell, better known by his alias Foetus. Australian composer James George Thirlwell (Melbourne, 1960) is one of the most prominent figures in the alternative rock scene of the 1980s. He moved to London in…
Ben Vida releases a collaborative album with Yarn/Wire and Nina Dante
French label Shelter Press releases an extraordinary collaborative album by Ben Vida, Yarn/Wire and vocalist Nina Dante. American composer Ben Vida (Dubuque, Iowa, 1974) has teamed up with chamber quartet Yarn/Wire and vocalist Nina Dante to record The Beat My Head Hit, a stunning album recently released by Shelter Press….
“…Good day and blessings…” by Los Asquerosos.
The album …Buen día y bendiciones… by Los Asquerosos is out. Edited by La tAtUcErA on May 17, 2023. Los Asquerosos are:Chema Pastor: percussion.Javier Entonado: piano, vocals, tapes.Special collaboration of: Marcos Sánchez and Iván Sánchez on percussions.Recorded in the Palacio de la Música (Torrevieja) La tAtUcErA, on 08/29/2022.Edited and mixed…
The first recording of Dessau’s “Lanzelot” is released
Audite releases the first recording of “Lanzelot”, Paul Dessau’s opera premiered in 1969. The German composer and conductor Paul Dessau (Hamburg, 1894-Königs Wusterhausen, 1979) was, together with Kurt Weill and Hans Eisler, one of the regular collaborators of the playwright Bertolt Brecht, for whom he composed the incidental music for…
Wim Mertens releases “Voice of the Living”
The Belgian composer Wim Mertens releases his 67th album, “Voice of the Living”, a tribute to all the victims of wars. A month ago Voice of the Living, the new album by Belgian composer and pianist Wim Mertens, was released. It is a composition that had been commissioned ten years…
Nonesuch releases “Dante”, by Thomas Adès
Nonesuch releases this Friday the recording of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, of “Dante” by Thomas Adès. This Friday, the Nonesuch label releases on both physical (double vinyl Lp) and digital formats, the recording of Dante, the three-act ballet based on Dante’s Divine Comedy composed by British…
“Umsindo Omgcolile 5”. LoFi Project.
«Umsindo Omgcolile 5»: mixes made from the recordings with a 1981 mono cassette from tape at the 10th Anniversary session of Raras Músicas and at the Amphitheater of La Casa de Campo in Madrid, on March 18 and 19, 2023. “Umsindo Omgcolile 5”Published on March 28, 2023Aitor Montes Odriozola &…
“Fuego en el aire”, by José Miguel Moreno Sabio
Liquen Records releases “Fuego en el aire”, dedicated almost entirely to the chamber music of José Miguel Moreno Sabio. The record label Liquen Records, specialised in the diffusion of improvised and experimental music, released at the end of 2022 Fuego en el aire [Fire in the Air], an album dedicated…
María de Alvear publishes her “Magna Mater”
María de Alvear has published, through her label World Edition, her work “Magna Mater”, on the tenth anniversary of its premiere. On 27 March 2013, as part of the programme of the fifty-second edition of the Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca, the Spanish-German composer María de Alvear (Madrid, 1960)…
Michel van der Aa’s opera “Upload” published
The label Disquiet has released the record version of “Upload”, the penultimate opera by Dutch composer Michel van der Aa. Dutchman Michel van der Aa is perhaps the most prominent of the current Dutch composers. He has received almost every major award in the small central European country and the…
Anthony Fiumara releases “Vitreous Body” on OMM
Dutch composer Anthony Fiumara releases “Vitreous Body”, an album for percussion inspired by the music of Philip Glass. Percussionist Fedor Teunisse, artistic director of Slagwerk Den Haag, one of the most important and long-standing percussion orchestras in the world – it was founded in The Hague in 1977 as Slagwerkgroep…