New Albion Records
New Albion Records discovers new music for the modern world. New Albion's releases open listeners' ears to new possibilities in sound and music, bringing them directly into the living moment. Their catalog covers an extremely wide range of the musical spectrum, and label followers can always count on new releases to provide fascinating and engaging music.
John Adams
John Adams's work is the energy of nature harnessed into dense orchestral compositions -- rushing, pulsing, shaking, and trembling.
Shaker Loops
Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton has walked the fine line between the avant-garde and jazz
worlds for most of his musical career. Though considered an outsider
by the bebop establishment, he has managed to collaborate with a wide variety of important jazz artists including Chick Corea, Max Roach, and Derek Bailey, and his work has influenced everyone from John Zorn to Kit Clayton.
19 Solo Compositions, 1988
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1988
Hans Brimi and Pernille Anker
From the forests to the fjords, Norway is bursting with pure, haunting, achingly beautiful music. The songs on Nordisk Sang showcase some of the best traditional Norwegian folk music.
Music of Norway
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1987
Harold Budd
Harold Budd's catalogue of brilliant and peaceful compositions includes collaborations with Brian Eno, Zeitgeist, and The Cocteau Twins. Fans of Philip Glass take note.
She Is A Phantom
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1994
John Cage
John Cage forever altered the world of music through his revolutionary thoughts and compositions. These two pieces for piano and prepared piano are taken from works created by Cage in the 1940s. Download a piece of history.
Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Henry Cowell
Henry Cowell's piano compositions might make you feel like a mischievous little elf has crawled inside your head and unplugged some of your wires. At first the elf seems evil, but later you realize you're happy to have your brain altered. Just like that pesky little elf, while initially Cowell's music seems difficult and abstract, it can actually be quite catchy.
New Music
Alvin Curran
Crystal Psalms is a moment in musical history that commemorates one of the darkest hours in human history. Through this work, Alvin Curran pays homage to the memory of those who perished during 1938's Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass."
Crystal Psalms
Stuart Dempster
Ever wonder what a natural 45-second reverb coupled with a troupe of
trombonists might sound like? Stuart Dempster and a group of his students return to the empty two million gallon cistern featured on an earlier collaboration with Pauline Oliveros and
Panaiotis to make gorgeous, droning music.
Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel
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1995
Miguel Frasconi
Though his haunting melodies come from such earthly sources as glass bowls and cassette tapes, Miguel Frasconi creates soundscapes that are both organic and dreamlike, resembling nature as much as music.
Song+Distance
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2001
Ellen Fullman
It takes a mighty big instrument -- The Long String Instrument, in fact -- to make sounds as complexly textured as these. Ellen Fullman's pieces are filled with movement, beauty, and mystery.
Change Of Direction
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1999
Lou Harrison
Throughout the more than fifty years that Lou Harrison has been creating music, he has remained on the forefront of innovation through his unique synthesis of a multitude of styles, cultures, and influences.
La Kuro Sutro
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1988
Rhymes With Silver
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2000
Sarah Hopkins
Sarah Hopkins provides the perfect musical complement for the vast expanse of the Australian plain, evoking its grandeur with the natural beauty of her cello and her voice.
Austral Voices
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1990
Elisabeth KvÂrne
From the forests to the fjords, Norway is bursting with pure, haunting, achingly beautiful music. The songs on Nordisk Sang showcase some of the best traditional Norwegian folk music.
Music of Norway
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1987
Maurice Ravel
Somber and sinister, Ravel's "Le Gibet" is the musical expression of a hanged man. Pianist Sarah Cahill transforms printed notes into a compelling and ghastly image of finality and loss.
Miroirs and Gaspard De La Nuit
Terry Riley
Legendary postwar composer Terry Riley launched the Minimalist movement in the mid '60s and is responsible for some of the most innovative avant-garde compositions of the twentieth century. Originally famous for his pieces involving tapes, electronics, sax, and keyboards, over the years Riley has moved towards compositions for strings.
The Light of Foresight
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1994
The Book of Abbeyozzud
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1999
Stefano Scodanibbio
Stefano Scodanibbio shatters any preconceived notions you might have had about the limitations of the double bass with his fascinating and beautiful compositions.
Voyage That Never Ends
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2000
Stephen Scott
Why bother with the keys of a piano when you can lift up the lid and play the strings directly? Stephen Scott's lovely bowed piano pieces are symphonies of sound played on a single instrument.
New Music For Bowed Piano
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1984
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen is a living legend. A pioneer in the field of
experimental music, the German composer and theorist was
among the first to work with electronics and tape loops.
Mantra
David Tanenbaum
Classical guitarist David Tanenbaum brings a unique vision to every piece he
undertakes. He exhibits his superb command of the guitar in his version of Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint.
Acoustic Counterpoint
Threnody Ensemble
Since Threnody Ensemble shares members with A Minor Forest and 33.3, it comes as no surprise that distant strains of indie rock are audible in the group's compositions. The shock may lie in the beauty of each piece. This is orchestral music that goes straight for your gullet.
Timbre Hollow
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2000
Matthias Ziegler
Flute virtuoso Matthias Ziegler creates startlingly complex and beautiful music suited for both peaceful meditation and spectral soundtracks.
Uakti
