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Flores
**2021 stock** Flores, like any other work of Maria de Alvear, deals with the ideal of inner freedom. This is not a mere claim, it is manifested in the shape of the piece itself. Written in the author's typical mixture of composition and notated improvisation, the text leaves a certain scope to the seven instrumentalists as to the elaboration of the rhythm and at times also the intonation. The score has almost no directives for the parts of the two singers: what and how the singing is performed …
Nine unfinished Symphonies
The Nine Unfinished Symphonies were conceived as one entity. They are written in my musical native tongue; the musical grammar and idioms with which I have become so familiar that I can converse in them spontaneously, without thinking, so that I can devote my full attention to what I actually want to do. It appears that we need narratives, such as the ‘sacred’ number nine with symphonies, or the concept of the Unfinished, which stands in sharp contrast to the fragmentary or the ‘uncapitalized’ u…
Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations Vol. 10
**Edition of 400 copies, sold-out at source** Before the spectral, romantic electric guitar miniatures for which he is celebrated today, Loren Connors recorded a string of nine solo acoustic guitar improvisations under the name of Loren Mazzacane between 1979 and 1980. The records feature Loren's contorted impressions of Delta and country blues, persistently kneaded into sidelong guitar excursions entangled with wordless, mournful vocal utterances, hummed and moaned in imitation of the dogs that…
Live
Patty Waters is a visionary avant-garde vocalist and composer, best known for her groundbreaking 1960s recordings for the legendary free jazz label ESP-Disk. Captivated by the music of Billie Holiday, she sang with Bill Evans, Charlie Mingus, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock before coming to the attention of Albert Ayler, who introduced her to ESP-Disk's Bernard Stollman. The rest is history.Recorded with pianist Burton Greene, Waters' haunting 1966 debut Sings juxtaposes a side of hushed self-com…
Veruschka
**2020 small repress** Dagored present Ennio Morricone's famous soundtrack composed for the 1971 Franco Rubartelli documentary Veruschka, Poesia Di Una Donna. The documentary was about the legendary Veruschka, the world's first supermodel and '60s/'70s icon, who appeared in several cult movies including Blow Up (1966), Salome (1972) and Couleur Chair (1978). In Rubartelli's movie, the viewer follows the beautiful model in a shockingly surreal journey through the rural countryside of Italy on a d…
Volta Penta
Marius Chwaleks debut album Volta Penta, in which he explores the world of electro magnetic fields and transformed them into sounds located between Experimental, Ambient and Musique concrète. 2018 release
Molochville
Br'laaB is the moniker for the studio works of Brecht Ameel (Razen), consisting on the one hand of themes from Ameel's songbook for the Acid Boogie Quartet, on the other hand of tape collage pieces based on recordings of found audio, ultra-fi sampling, degraded vhs, skipping cd's and sandpaper vinyls. Combining influences that range from Slint to Raymond Dijkstra and from Tape to Peer Raben, the pieces here were assembled and recorded after hours while working on commissions for contemporary da…
Pathological Curves
To sonically modify sound, not as a composerly or listenerly injunction but as a condition of its possibility: such is the task of Elizabeth Hoffman. Hers is not merely a music of the "verb" - that composers "do" something or "perform" something on the sonic. Hers is an "adverbial" music.
Above all, adverbial music modifies - sound, yes, but more fundamentally the space in which sound appears and the temporality that it solicits as it vanishes, always. Adverbial music, reticently and generously,…
Wave Piano Scenery Player
Wave Piano Scenery Player consists of several artifacts brought into a single structure: large black oil paintings on paper sheets dividing an automatic grand piano in two parts (sounding body, keyboard); tree pieces of music hamonically linking the 88 keys of the piano by combining them with mirotonally tuned sinewaves; a subwoofer/loudspeaker reproducing the elctronic tones; a pianist and a computer, both acting as performers.
The time-based form is deivides into threee parts, in which Sabat c…
Painted Cakes Are Real, Too
When you are listening to his pieces and are completely at ease, they offer the listener the beauty of pure sound: I believe this also applies to his likeminded friends. Even when and if they are of a continuous narrative type, they just create the right situation to listen to sounds. As the title reveals: Painted cakes are real, too. The beautiful sounds are repeated in order to remain purely sound. This repetition does not build up a narrative, it becomes more complicated and excited not in or…
Ballad
The word "ballad" implies a tale or narrative, and while there is no literal story being told there, I found myself thinking of the two performers as co-travellers in a terrain - or as dance partners - and the music as sometimes like a song they sing together, sometimes a landscape they cross, sometimes a mood, sometimes a monologue, and sometimes a fine line they trace. In the end, it is a ballad about the cello and the piano, and the way I hear them together. - Linda Catlin Smith
Der Uhu des Ihi
"Leukert brings back intuition into the computer-mechanical techniques of contemporary classical music. His compositions derive from the hearing experience - he has become a David Lynch for the ‘cinema pour l’oreille’, who is operating with the ironically associative scepticism of Godard. A blessing that Maria De Alvear’s small label ‘World Edition’ now produced eight of Leukert’s audio pieces on CD; among them the enchanting trilogy Wildwechsel" . - Alban Nikolai Herbst
Improvisation
That’s the name of the game... Marco Blaauw plays on a quartertone double bell trumpet, a shell, brought from Madagascar,a slide trumpet, piccolo trumpet, quartertone flugel horneven megaphone and flexible tube. Gijsbrecht Royé plays on a self-made bass-zither. To play on the four groups of bass grandpiano strings, he uses different kinds of sticks; two bows (normally used for double bass), metal strings, nails, brushes, knives, rat-tailed files and metal scouring pads.
Proprio Motu
* 2021 Stock * The disc summarises a major part of Eduardo Polonio’s work over the last decade and in some way is a complement to his 1969 - 1998 anthology.
There is a deep line, indecipherable for me, that runs through the work of Eduardo Polonio. It is a spectral base that we can track to his early works. ... In his latest work, Sudoku-mix, he buries it even deeper. We should not opt for the easy programmatic interpretation of the phenomena he points to in his work. The harmonic plays and even…
Sitting Between Chairs
* 2021 Stock * Metamusic. A suitable term for all these works, if by this we understand that musical aspects are somehow transcended, transgressed.
Sitting between chairs. A transgression which leads, through interactions of materials and intentions, controlled use of randomness or indeterminacy, conceptual game of measurement or definition, to the contemplation of music itself as yet another fragment of the whole, because the sound objects may have a dramatic or musical nature.
How could this w…
Thinking
* 2021 Stock * When i speak of spirit it is far beyond what most people think of.I am confident in my ways. I dont care about what people think of me because i do know that what i have been shown and told is far beyond. - Tsolagiu M.A. RuizRazo
For piano + violin + videoStephen Clarke - pianoMarc Sabat - violintext: Tsolagiu M.A. RuizRazoLive-recording from 01/12/2001, Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, Canada
Weiss/Weisslich
* 2021 Stock * One day I met something strange on a stroll through the fields not far from the Hungarian border. The corn stood tall and waited to be harvested. The hot summerly east wind went through the fields, and suddenly I heard the hiss. Many had explained it to me but still I cannot tell the difference between wheat and rye. But I heard the difference. I think it was the first time that I actually heard something without an aesthetic context (like in a concert). Or was it the first time I…
Unisono Diviso
* 2021 Stock * About 1960, when serialism was pushed into an abundant mathematically structured complexity by composers such as Stockhausen or Boulez, young Ernstalbrecht Stiebler choose a completely different way - a radical backlash to the successors of Webern in Darmstadt: "No ‘mediations’, no permutations of sound material, but a way towards a further reduction of the material instead. At that time I had the feeling of entering onto new ground," Stiebler recalls.
The string trio Extension I …
Baum
* 2021 Stock * As if an incantatory ritual, Drums Off Chaos and Maria De Alvear create "acoustic images". The inherent spirit of the object - the essence of the tree comes to life through the interplay of voice and drums, assuming a clear shape in the listener’s mind.
Maria De Alvear’s colourful and expressive singing and the repetitive, insistent rhythms provided by the Drums Off Chaos work towards the same musical idea: from the specific material of each, unusual, highly differentiated sounds …
Llena
* 2021 Stock * To me, Maria De Alvear composes like a natural phenomenon: guided not as much by the coming and going of ideas and emotions, nor addressing them, but like a law of nature impassively displaying a sort of automatic writing that moves the body and courses through the psyche, ultimately demanding full awareness. - Reinier van Houdt