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Echograph (90201) has released this CD of works performed by the Los Angles premiere new music ensemble, the Ear Unit.  Included on the disc are GO by James Sellars; Coming Together by Frederic Rzewski; Road Movies by John Adams; Girlfriend by Julia Wolfe; and Foreign Objects by John Bergamo.

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Three chamber works by James Sellars; Buelah in Chicago, (on poems by Frank O’Hara); Palm Court Music and Return of the Comet.

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The Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano, performed by virtuosos Carry Hoffman, sax, and John McDonald, piano.

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The delightful opera The World is Round by James Sellars, based on the poignant book by Gertrude Stein.  Libretto by Juanita Rockwell.

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Six Piano Sonatas and a Sonatina, performed by seven star pianists: Fermin Bernetxea, Jean Pierre Dupuy, Scott Dunn, Julian Jacobson, Anthony de Mare, Lisa Moore, and Aki Takahashi.

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Bresnick
CRI's new double album of Martin Bresnick's "Opere della Musica Povera" (Works of a Poor Music) is an impressive collection of recent works, presented in hot recordings by Bang On A Can All-Stars, Yale Philharmonia, Lisa Moore, and many others.

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Michael Daugherty's "American Icons"

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Robert Maggio's "Seven Mad Gods"

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Nielsen 4 & 5
This new recording of Carl Nielsen's 4th and 5th Symphonies by the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Schønwandt, is the first serious contender to the old Bernstein recording of the Fifth. Good music, beautifully recorded.

The label is DaCapo, cat. no. 8.224156

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Ockeghem The series of Johannes Ockeghem's sacred works (8 discs, so far) by The Clerks' Group, directed by Edward Wickham, on the ASV label is an immense undertaking exquisitely executed. Ockeghem's rhythmically tricky music is in good hands here. Recordings of the Requiem, the Credo, all the masses except one or two, and most of the Motets.

Let's hope for an album of Ockeghem's songs.

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Carl: piano works
This disc piano works by Robert Carl contains much beautiful and original piano music, all excellently performed. There’s not anything like it around. There are a few strange quirks here and there. Once Carl has set up a mood, an interruption occurs: a sudden dissonant forte or a spiky piano lick (some are very difficult). One exception is Warm (not "Sarm” as is printed on the CD) Waxing Wail, which evokes Ives. The music is decidedly East Coast, more specifically New England. But the originality is consistently striking. A CD well worth owning.


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Carl: piano works
Robert Carl

Music for Strings

Merrell: It Was Too Quiet It Was Too Quiet

Todd Merrell

Released 2004

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55:56


Recording available here.

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Merrell: Full Fathom Five
Full Fathom Five

Todd Merrell

Released 2004

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47:27


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Merrell: Infernal Equinox Infernal Equinox

Todd Merrell

Released 2004

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56:06


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Merrell: This Won't Hurt A Bit
This Won't Hurt A Bit

Todd Merrell

Released 2003

electromagnetica 004

24:03


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Brawny Prawn: Songs For Bashful Gods Songs For Bashful Gods

Brawny Prawn
[Todd Merrell + machines]

Released 2004

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27:29

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The Single Side Band: Etherica Etherica

The Single Side Band
[Todd Merrell and Patrick Jordan]

Released 2000

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~30:00

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The Single Side Band: Self-Modulating Prophecy
Self-Modulating Prophecy

The Single Side Band
[Todd Merrell and Patrick Jordan]

Released 2000

electromagnetica 002

31:14

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The Single Side Band: Shipshore Shipshore

The Single Side Band
[Todd Merrell and Patrick Jordan]

Released 2000

electromagnetica 001

30:42

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The Single Side Band: Self-Modulating Prophecy
The Story of the Morning

Qwas' follow-up album to "The Oneiric."  This is a guitar-driven electronic-pop album  influenced by Radiohead, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Imogen Heap and others.
The Single Side Band: Shipshore

The Oneiric

Qwas' debut album.  Qwas is a collaboration between Nick and NYC-based vocalist, Melanie Curcio.  Qwas takes classical art song forms and molds them into electronic-pop soundscape "dreams."

Dany Barry, of the publication The Hartford Advocate, describes this album in his list of best CDs of the year 2004 as, "A dazzling look at the subscious
on its own terms, rather than as a psychological oddity."

The Single Side Band: Self-Modulating Prophecy

Sapling

The first CD commercially released by Nick Sibicky back in 2003.   It mostly consists of chamber music written between 2001-2003 but also features a live performance of The Hartt Orchestra performing "The Mentally Unstable Hippopotamus," as well as a solo piano "Prelude and Fugue" performed by Nick himself.

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