New World Records: New Releases

From New World Records:

New Music For Electronic And Recorded Media: Women In Electronic Music—1977
Composer(s): Johanna Beyer, Annea Lockwood, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Megan Roberts, Ruth Anderson, Laurie Anderson
Cat. No.: 80653
Genre: Classical
Description: This is a long-awaited reissue of the CRI CD of the classic 1750 Arch LP.
“The music on this album exhibits an exciting, wide-open, freewheeling approach to the medium of electronic music which has come to be typical of this genre in the late 1970s. No longer are composers obsessively concerned with the agonizing, expressionistic, and purely “electronic” (synthesized) sound formulas which marked much of this music composed between the mid Fifties and the late Sixties. Instead, today we have composers willing to mix media and sonic materials in thoroughly inventive ways to achieve ends… more

Peter Zummo
Composer(s): Peter Zummo
Cat. No.: 80656
Genre: Classical
Description: Zummo with an
Arthur Russell, amplified cello and voice; Bill Ruyle, tabla, marimba; Peter Zummo, trombone; Rik Albani, trumpet; Guy Klucevsek, accordion; Mustafa Ahmed, percussion
With accuracy and humor, Peter Zummo (born 1948) often describes his unique music as “minimalism plus a whole lot more.” He is an important exponent of the American contemporary classical tradition whose compositions explore the methodologies of not just minimalism, but also jazz, world music, and rock, while seeking to create freedom in ensemble situations. Zummo’s realization of …

Morton Feldman
Composer(s): Morton Feldman
Cat. No.: 80657
Genre: Classical
Description: The music on this recording (reissued from CRI CD 620) illustrates the essential integrity of the work of Morton Feldman (1926–1987) and one of its fundamental strengths—its continuously unfolding unanimity of purpose. There are few composers of his generation whose first and last published work (in Feldman’s case Journey to the End of Night of 1949 and Piano and String Quartet of 1986) span youth and final years with such a concentrated viewpoint.