Guess who’s back: Alma are happy to show around again presenting their brand new and highly anticipated 3rd Longplayer Oeo! Summer 2017 is occupied from now on!
[...] contains pop music of stunning grandeur, and of moving simplicity. Sincerely recommended!
Milestones of electroacoustic music – from Varèse to Ferneyhough – investigated from a music-historical perspective and presented in contemporary 5.1 surround sound.
"The music they make is an acoustic gingerbread, lustily oral, closely linked to eating, drinking, kissing, breathing, living." (Franzobel)
Sferraina create an enchanting sound space, where music from past eras continually overlaps and interacts with the present. Highly recommended!
Dance music from high-alpine regions and from the low plains, music located somewhere between Schubert, Bartok and a Young Farmers’Ball in East Tyrol.
“Trio Catch are like a fresh new brand for the old lady New Music.” (www.vanmagazin.com) — Could there be a catchier way of phrasing it?
Beating Bounds, the Limits of Failure: the Music of Mark Barden.
Journal
New Release
Alma: Oeo
Guess who’s back: Alma are happy to show around again presenting their brand new and highly anticipated 3rd Longplayer Oeo! »... somewhere between the native soil and a dark universe.« Find the album right here.
New Release
iris electrum
Pop music of stunning grandeur, and of moving simplicity. Eleven songs brimming over with ideas, sounds, shapes, defying any stylistic categorization, nimbly commuting between different genres, celebrating diversity and curiosity. Find the album right here.
New Release
Les Espaces Électroacoustiques
Is a musical performance “historically informed”? Does it do justice to the “original sound”? Is it even possible to truly experience the “original idea” behind a composition when it is performed with “modern instruments”? We are familiar with questions such as these in connection with the interpretation of so-called early music. On this double album they are rigorously applied to so-called new music. Find the album right here.
New Release
Federspiel: Smaragd
"The music they make is an acoustic gingerbread, lustily oral, closely linked to eating, drinking, kissing, breathing, living." (...) "It is brass instrument music with its origins in the depths of the country, but which then always branches o in surprising ways, not meeting the usual expectations but instead surprising with something new." (Franzobel) Find the album right here.
New Release
Sferraina: Monkeyfish
Sferraina, a young and uprising ensemble dedicated to "performing old music in a contemporary way and contrasting it with a modern horizon“ finally presenting their debut Monkeyfish. Find the album right here.
New Release
Trio Catch: Sanh
“Trio Catch are like a fresh new brand for the old lady New Music.” (www.van-magazin.com) — Could there be a catchier way of phrasing it? In 2016 the rising trio finally present s its 2nd Longplayer Sanh with compositions from Bertrand, Brahms and Lang. Find the album right here.
New Release
Franui: Tanz! (Franz)
Dance music from high-alpine regions and from the low plains, music located somewhere between Schubert, Bartok and a Young Farmers’Ball in East Tyrol ... and they call them Franui! Find the album right here!
Recommendations
Trio Catch
In Between
Of transgressions and abysses, dangers and beauty: Trio Catch!
Catch-Pop String-Strong
Catch-Pop String-Strong
The cult band from Vienna demonstrate a disregard of musical boundaries to delight the ears of their listeners. A truly colorful col legno highlight of 2012!
Karsten Riedel & Franui
Fool of Love
Karsten Riedel and Franui: the music of the successful production at the Burgtheater Vienna is now available on CD! Songwriting at its finest.
Videos
Franui & Florian Boesch: ALL WAS WELL AGAIN
Alma: Oeo (Teaser)
iris electrum: of tigers and owls (no future, no past)
CPSS: Bold
Classics
Morton Feldman
Crippled Symmetry
Music and carpets? Well, the latter’s slightly irregular patterns certainly inspired Morton Feldman to write his Crippled Symmetry (1983).
Giacinto Scelsi
Flute & Clarinet
Marino Formenti
Notturni
A "Best-Of" the extraordinary late night concerts with Marino Formenti, recorded at WIEN MODERN 2011!
About
Steven Stucky
Listening to Contemporary Music
A timeless keynote about finding a relationship to music of our times.
