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leathaidean – Fells & MacGlone

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp.  leathaidean by Fells & MacGlone leathaidean - Fells & MacGlone Leathaidean, meaning ‘slopes’ or ‘hillsides’ in Scottish Gaelic, is a series of improvisations for shakuhachi and double bass recorded in 2022. The music explores playing together as a series of encounters with zones and boundaries – textures and gradients, surfaces and resistances – with a spontaneous sense of purpose or direction, heading to and away from peaks, plateaus and troughs as they appear or fade from sight. The notion of ‘slopes’ or ‘hillsides’ then was a metaphor for the playing; walking, and the effort...

Live in Berlin – lixt

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. Video of the live performance can be watched here for free. live in Berlin by lixt Live in berlin - lixt [sh[i]e[l]d] is an audio visual live coding performance focused on information, noise and video feedback. A way to address the power and misuse of the mass media industry which delivers tons of speculative information to the public causing an endemic socio political vulnerability. This project uses the homepage of well-known newspapers as an arena for debate, creativity and play, neutralizing its imposing aesthetics. The live coding manipulation of the web page through...

Three Names – Sarah Grace Graves

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. Three Names by Sarah Grace Graves Three Names - Sarah Grace Graves Three Names was born of Vespro, the culminating performance of my July 2023 residency at Fondazione Isabella Scelsi in Rome, inspired by Michiko Hirayama’s long-standing interest in Gregorian chant and my own intersecting histories with spirituality and experimental music. Creating Three Names was like weaving a liturgy from life’s manifold threads: the seasons, my lifetime, our current moment, the people whose paths cross mine, the place of performance, the work, the breath. It is impossible to touch all these things intentionally; the ordering of...

Final Day – Jena Jang

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. Final Day by Jena Jang Final Day - Jena Jang What might the end of your world feel like? What echoes will you leave behind? It begins with a quiet unraveling — layers of you peeling away, breath growing faint, until even the sound of life forgets you. And yet, beyond disappearance, you return — not as flesh, but as a thread of spirit. Once again, you step into the light, onto the stage, as you were in the beginning: tender, raw, fiercely alive. You sang through pain — not to survive, but to leave something soft behind, a ripple that lingers...

Schwebstoff – Moritz Gagern – The Present

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. Schwebstoff by Moritz Gagern Schwebstoff - Moritz Gagern - The Present vocal music 8+1 eight solo voices and one voice for spoken word „Schwebstoff“ is a composition and a poem about the voice being the air's daughter. Air may be the condition of breath and sound but often it turns up as their object, too: we encounter a lot of „wind“ and „heaven“ in traditional and modern lyrics of vocal music. This invisible life-giving entity is filled with gods and ideas – and with floating particles. The air’s transparency and balance, which had been...

objects aligned out of time – Manon McCoy – Alice Brookes

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. objects aligned out of time by Manon McCoy + Alice Brookes objects aligned out of time Manon McCoy - Alice Brookes objects aligned out of time is an exploration of the self in company. The album explores the dissonance between image and self, questioning identity through the spaces we make for ourselves and the sounds we find in them. Made with field recordings and live electronics to distort and warp the voices, blending them with found sounds and objects. Using a setup of 1 delay pedal, 1 reverb pedal, a looper, 2 voices, 2...

Inscriptions – David Ryan & OPerta collective

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. Inscriptions by David Ryan Inscriptions David Ryan & OPerta collectivea ‘Inscriptions’ is a an ‘open work’ for a singer, speakers, and variable ensemble. These extracts were recorded live in concert with Cristina Grifone, soprano and OPerta collective directed by David Ryan and theatrically directed by Slovenian opera director Rocc, at Wimbledon College of Arts Theatre, London, July 2023, recorded by Emanuele Costanini. It takes as its starting point texts from the famous Greek Anthology of epigrams (literally translated as ‘inscriptions’ from the Greek). These texts are noteworthy in their development from anonymous epitaphs and...

Levedad – Andrea Escobar

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. Levedad - Andrea Escobar This album is the result of the fusion of two highly appreciated projects from recent years. On one hand, the “Proyecto Calvino” (Calvino Project), inspired by Italo Calvino’s posthumous work Six Memos for the Next Millennium. This project brings together five beloved and admired composers—Nicolás Rodríguez, Ezequiel Esquenazi, Lucía Drochi, Facundo Llompart, and Jorge Sad Levi. Invited to immerse themselves in Calvino’s writing, they used some of the six literary values proposed by the author as their starting point. From their unique perspectives, five pieces were born, created...

moon language – Michaela Catranis

You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. moon language - Michaela Catranis  Moon Language is a collection of extended piano works; a search for my own musical vernacular, crafted from field recordings and samples that I’ve woven into piano songs both composed and improvised. The album draws together many different influences including classical, experimental music, electronic, and jazz, all gravitating around the sound of the piano. I felt drawn back to my musical roots as a young child daydreaming up songs on the old upright in our living room, a hide-away from the chaos of a blissful but busy childhood, growing...