«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 &…

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 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)…

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…

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…

Universal has just released a new compilation album by Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi, entitled “Moments of Peace”. The album features ten pieces that cover various periods of Ludovico Einaudi’s career, from compositions made in 1999 –Due tramonti, included in Eden Rock– and 2004 –DNA, included in Una mattina– together with…

Dutch pianist Xavier Boot, known as XA4, releases “Glass Gateway”, an Ep inspired by the music of Philip Glass. The Dutch pianist Xavier Boot (Bilthoven, 1989), also known by his stage name XA4, has released Glass Gateway, a four-piece EP with which he makes his debut on Orange Mountain Music,…

Dutch lutenist Jozef van Wissem releases a new soundtrack for Murnau’s film “Nosferatu. A Symphony of Horror”. Dutch lute player and composer Jozef Van Wissem released his album Nosferatu – The Call of the Deathbird a few weeks ago on the Incunabulum label. It was a commission from La Cinémathèque…

«Umsindo Omgcolile 2» es un proyecto basado en sonidos LoFi. Umsindo Omgcolile means dirty noise or filthy noise in Zulu. Remixes of musical pieces by Poliedro Kobold (mindless non-profit art collective), from tape recordings made at the end of the 20th century: Arin Dodo/Poliedro Kobold An analog 4-track Fostex portastudio has…

Alejandro Pelayo releases “Sobre la piel”, his third solo album, with collaborators such as Suso Saiz, Nur Levi, Fon Román or Guille Galván. The Spanish composer and pianist Alejandro Pelayo, founder of Marlango, the band he shares with Leonor Watling, has just released his third solo album on Altafonte, Sobre…

French pianist Vanessa Wagner releases her third album of minimalist repertoire with the likes of Glass, Muhly, Moondog or Melaine Dalibert. After Inland (2019) and Study of the Invisible (released earlier this year), French pianist Vanessa Wagner completes with Mirrored a trilogy of works from the minimalist repertoire, interpreting Philip…

Orange Mountain Music label releases “Icons: Philip Glass, John Adams, and John Corigliano”, with works for violin and piano. Orange Mountain Music, the record label owned by Philip Glass, released a few weeks ago Icons: Philip Glass, John Adams, and John Corigliano, an album of compositions for violin and piano…