Tag Archives: New Focus Recordings
Hypothetical Islands
Varying works for reed quintet, ambient, flowing to staccato. Play or sample!
Louis Karchin–Dark Mountains/Distant Lights
A mix of abstract pieces, solos, duets, trios, both strident and lyrical. Play most!
Transient Canvas–Wired
Mostly slow, quiet and abstract works for marimba and bass clarinet. Play!
Anthony Cheung–Cycles and Arrows
Very abstract, varying pieces both with lyricism and dissonance. Play most!
Christopher Trapani–Waterlines
Interesting mix of instruments (strings, voice, piano, electric guitar) and rhythms. Play!
Dmitry Tymoczko–Fools & Angels
With various vocal groups and instrumental ensembles, abstract, contemporary pieces in the style of Renaissance.
Night Triptych–Guitar Duos
Contemporary, ethnic, guitar duos, Japanese, Middle Eastern amongst others. Play!
Robert Honstein–An Economy of Means
Lovely minimalist pieces for vibraphone or piano. Play all!
Streya
Classical/avant-garde works for violin, by Rothenberg, Mazzoli and Futing among others. Some screeching, but not all.
Scott Wollschleger–Soft Aberrations
String pieces with mixed with vocals, abstract, accessible.
Transient Canvas–Shift
Avant collection of works for bass clarinet and marimba, mostly quiet, some force–sample/play!
Into the Silence
Some beautiful, abstract, contemporary works for violin and piano, by Stucky, Ko and Palmer. Play most!
Simplicity Itself
New Morse Code Duo (cello + percussion) perform a varied collection of contemporary pieces, both tense to sweet. Play!
Philippe Manoury–The Book of Keyboards
Beautiful compositions for vibraphone and percussion, abstract, contemporary. Play!
Dalia Raudonikyte With–Solitarius
Contemporary, abstract pieces for various solo instruments ( sax, guitar, clarinet ) and one for chamber orchestra. Play most!
Fernando Bernadon–delight/delirium
An interesting mix of avant works with some jazz elements–vibes, piano, clarinet, harp, etc. in mixed configurations. Play!
Jeff Herriott–Stone Tapestry
Ambient, quiet and abstract pieces for percussion, some with flute. Play!
Book of Memory
Beautiful, contemporary works by Paul Lansky and Jason Treuting peformed by Janus Trio (flute, viola, harp). Treuting’s pieces have voice. Play!
Mikel Kuehn–Object Shadow
Accessible, abstract, electro-acoustic works for a variety of instruments: solo guitar, saxophones, cello, etc. Play!
Traceur–American Music for Clarinet and Piano
Nice collection of mostly modern and contemporary pieces. Play most!
Wild Cities
Contemporary, abstract works for violin and piano, ranging from quiet pieces, ambient to more strident ones. Moya’s works nice!
Michael Finnissy–WAM
Deconstructions of classical works and free-form chamber music.
Reiko Futing–namesErased
Spare works for voice or instrumental duet or solo, somewhat surreal, eerie.
Barbary Coast
Abstract, somewhat discordant new works performed by the Red Light New Music ensemble. Interesting.
Steven Ricks–Young American Inventions
Electroacoustic (flute, piano, sax, recorders, etc.) with voice and sounds/radio voices, decidedly avant. Can be difficult, weird, or lyrical. Trks 5, 10, 11,12,14 more accessible.
