Mode Records New Releases

From Mode Records:

Margaret Leng Tan: She Herself Alone – The Art of the Toy Piano 2 – works for toy piano and other instruments by Cage, Crumb, Twining, Griswold, Kitzke, Liben and Bolleter.

Iannis XENAKIS, Vol. 12: Charisma X – (Greece, 2008, directed by Efi Xirou) Featuring rare footage of Xenakis plus commentary by composers George Aperghis, Francois-Bernard Mache, Gerard Pape, Curtis Roads, George Koumentakis; plus Francois Xenakis, Makis Solomos, Sharon Kanach & Makhi Xenakis. Musical performances by Sylvio Gualda, Elisabeth Chojnacka, Benny Sluchin, Frances-Marie Uitti, Lori Freeman, Christophe Roy, Spiros Sakkas.

Morton FELDMAN, Vol. 10: Trio – Aki Takahashi, piano. Marc Sabat, violin. Rohan de Saram, cello. 2-CDs specially priced $19.99, or complete on one surround-sound DVD with full video. DVD also includes video talk on Feldman and the “Trio” by Walter Zimmermann.

Orkest de Volharding – “The Minimalists”: Terry RILEY: In C; Steve REICH: City Life (arr. for wind orchestra by Anthony Fiumara); Louis ANDRIESSEN: Workers’ Union; Kyle GANN: Sunken City (piano concerto with Geoffrey Douglas Madge); David LANG: Street; John ADAMS: Short Ride in a Fast Machine (arr. for wind orchestra by Anthony Fiumara). 2-CDs

Roger REYNOLDS: “Epigram and Evolution”: Complete Works with Piano – imAge/piano (2007); Fantasy for Pianist (1964) – Yuji Takahashi, piano. Variation (1988); imagE/piano (2007), Epigram and Evolution (1961) – Eric Huebner, piano. Traces (Yuji Takahashi, piano, Karen Reynolds, flute. Lin Barron, cello, Alan Johnson, electronics); Less Than Two (SONOR Ensemble); The Angel of Death (Mariyln Nonken, piano. Slee Sinfonietta/Magnus Martensson).

Lei LIANG: Brush-Stroke – Serashi Fragment (Arditti Quartet); Some Empty Thoughts of a Person from Edo for solo harpsichord (Takae Ohnishi); In Praise of Shadows for solo flute (Paula Robison); My Windows for solo piano (Aleck Karis); Memories of Xiaoxiang for saxophone & tape (Chien-Kwan Lin); Trio for cello, piano & percussion; Brush-Stroke for chamber orchestra – Callithumpian Consort/Stephen Drury.

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New Releases on Ash International

A bunch of new releases from the Ash International label.

Ash 9.1 – BJ Nilsen – Draught #1
Ash 8.9 – Joachim Nordwall – Ignition
Ash 8.8 – Thomas Ankersmit – Live in Utrecht
Ash 8.7 – Meltaot • Souls on Board

Open Ears Music Shows

Open Ears Music has posted recordings of a few recent shows:

Naked Orchestra – 20 July 2010 – Audio Archive
Naked Orchestra: Jonathan Freilich (leader & guitar), Nobu Ozaki (bass), Doug Garrison (drums), Jimbo Walsh (conductor & electronics), Janna Saslaw (flute), Chris Kohl (clarinet), Steve Bertram (bassoon), Joe Cabral (tenor sax), Martin Krusche (bari sax), Jeff Albert (trombone)

WATIV – 13 July 2010 – Audio Archive
WATIV: Will Thompson (keys), Chris Alford (guitar), James Singleton (bass), Simon Lott (drums)

Music Mash Up v. 3.0 – 3 July 10 – Audio Archive
Musicians: Antonio Gambrell (trumpet), Mark McGrain (trombone), Brad Walker (alto & tenor sax), Tim Sullivan (bari sax), Chris Alford (Guitar), Jesse Morrow (bass), Jeff Zielinski (drums), Doug Garrison (drums)

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Touching Extremes Reviews

From Touching Extremes:

IRON KIM STYLE – Iron Kim Style
STELLARI STRING QUARTET – Gocce Stellari
ROSS BOLLETER – Night Kitchen