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Matt Mitchell - Phalanx Ambassadors (2019) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at June 4, 2019

Matt Mitchell - Phalanx Ambassadors (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 45:34 minutes | 529 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Phalanx Ambassadors is the latest release from pianist/keyboardist/composer Matt Mitchell, whom Will Layman in PopMatters calls “the most complete and well-integrated improvising pianist of the last 15 years.” He also called his prior release, A Pouting Grimace (Pi 2017), “brilliant and varied… animated by breathtaking compositional imagination and startling arrangements.” Phalanx Ambassadors similarly features works that burst forth with intricate detail, featuring precise execution of multi-layered rhythmic material, adventurous harmonic exploration and otherworldly melodies. While rigorously structured, the music also leaves ample room for intertwining improvisation.

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Dan Weiss Sixteen - Drummers Suite (2016) Music

Posted by mark70 at March 11, 2016

Dan Weiss Sixteen - Drummers Suite (2016)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 49:17 min | 114 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: Pi Recordings

Dan Weiss began his professional drumming career touring with the likes of saxophonists David Binney, Lee Konitz, Rudresh Mahantthapa, among others. Weiss has also been studying tabla with Pandit Samir Chatterjee for two decades and has been named a top drummer in a number of prominent polls. Sixteen: Drummers Suite bears more than a passing resemblance to Weiss' Fourteen (Pi Recordings, 2014) at least in terms of the music's development and the cohort of musicians.

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Marc Monnet – Bosse, Crâne Rasé, Nez Crochu (2010) Music

Posted by d'Avignon at July 15, 2013

Marc Monnet – Bosse, Crâne Rasé, Nez Crochu (2010)

Zig-Zag Territoires | cat. no. ZZT100403

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David Shea - Piano I (2016) Music

Posted by LoveHive at June 3, 2016

David Shea - Piano I (2016)
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 00:43:56 | 103 MB
Label: Room40

“The Piano has been an instrument that has woven its way in and out of my life since I was a child. I grew up listening to great classical and jazz players, prepared piano and electronic experiments, extended techniques and later the incredible works of Boulez, Stockhausen, Cage, Ligeti, Ferrari, Feldman, Xenakis and Scelsi. I had written for and worked with many great pianists and created ensemble works with piano and electronics where I was given the freedom to write complex pieces for gifted musicians and technical masters.

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Edna Michell - Compassion Music

Posted by dangdang at March 8, 2010

A pupil of Yehudi Menuhin plays 15 pieces by 15 composers in 20th century as a Tribute to the mentor. Although the order of tracks could have been a bit better organised, the recording will allow us to reconfirm that contemporary music does not stand for being ostentatious.

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Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish & Sō Percussion - Caroline Shaw: Narrow Sea (2021) Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 2, 2021

Nonesuch Records releases its second album from Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Caroline Shaw, Narrow Sea, on January 22, 2021. The title piece was written for Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish in 2017; they perform it on this recording as well. Narrow Sea comprises five parts, each a new setting of a text from The Sacred Harp nineteenth century collection of shape-note hymns. A composition Shaw wrote for Sō Percussion in 2012, Taxidermy, also is on the album.

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Horaţiu Rădulescu: Intimate Rituals, String Quartet No. 4, and Dizzy Divinity Music

Posted by coptuscantus at Oct. 23, 2008

Horaţiu Rădulescu: Intimate Rituals, String Quartet No. 4, and Dizzy Divinity
Avant-Garde | MP3 256 kbps, 192 kbps | 73 MB / 92 MB / 143 MB
Gerard Causse, viola; Vincent Royer, viola; Pierre-Yves Artaud, flute; Orchestre Français de Flutes – Horaţiu Rădulescu; Arditti Quartet

If anything can be proven by listening to these Cds, it is that Rădulescu's music defies categorization. His music eludes what has unfortunately become the didactic and academic Spectralism that has taken a stranglehold in Parisian intellectual circles these days; instead he has developed massive textural sonorities – not reminescent of Ligeti or Xenakis – that recall Byzantine and Hindu music, or music he believes to be ancient and closer to the original harmonic overtone spectrum.

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An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Compilation Music

Posted by Kakihara at June 1, 2010

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Georges Pludermacher - L'atelier des pianistes (2025) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 6, 2025

Georges Pludermacher - L'atelier des pianistes (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 4:32:00 | 826 Mb
Genre: Classical

Pianist Georges Pludermacher is recognized for his wide repertory, having emphasized adventurous contemporary works at a time when that was uncommon. He is equally active as a solo pianist, a performer of concertos, and a chamber music player. Pludermacher was born on July 26, 1944, in Guéret, in occupied France. He took up the piano at three, and at 11, he enrolled at the Paris Conservatory. In the summers, he took courses with Géza Anda in Lucerne, Switzerland, and when he completed his studies at the Conservatory at 19, he took the school's first prizes in piano, chamber music, and accompaniment. His career has incorporated all three of these specialties.

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Alina Ibragimova - Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Concerto Funebre (2007) (Repost) Music

Posted by peotuvave at June 25, 2014

As is well known, the Third Reich drove many of its gifted composers into exile, to early deaths or to the concentration camps. But a significant responsibility devolved on another group, who became ‘internal exiles’, remaining in Germany, but refusing to become cultural ornaments of the Nazi regime. Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905–1963), in Bavaria, consistently kept the spirit of modernism and human commitment alive in his own work.

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