The Chris Welcome Quartet
Refrain
“Refrain” features eight new compositions by Welcome. The music is equally influenced by the forward-looking jazz of the 1960’s, 20th century composers such as Webern and Feldman, and the ceremonial music of Tibet and Japan.
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Ned McGowan
Tools
Deep and forceful expression, combined with great charm and wit.
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Willie McBlind
Bad Thing
Featuring Jon Catler’s 64-tone microtonal guitar and Babe Borden’s soaring vocals, Mississippi mojo meets Harmonic Blues. Both traditional and radical, tapping into juke joint revelry and deep emotion – Bad Thing cuts straight to the soul.
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Randy Gibson
Voices + Sine Waves
Harmonically dense drones and textures with lilting wandering melodies using the most primal and pure of sound sources.
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Tide Tables
Lost Birdsongs
Milford Graves meets Aphex Twin meets Konono #1.
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Open Graves
Hollow Lake
Microtonal percussion, invented instruments, resonant spaces.
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Rod Poole & Sasha Bogdanowitsch
Mind's Island
Melodic and lush contemporary improvisations for voice and guitar
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Gloria Coates
Gloria Coates "Music on Open Strings" STring Quartets NOs. 1,2 & 4
1986 international Koussevitzski finalist KIRA, Kronos Quartet & Bavarian Radio Symphony; microtonal, classical avant garde.
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Chris Welcome
Quartet
Modern compositions and improvisations in a spare and haunting style.
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Frederick Moore
Lives of the Saints
Harmonically adventurous sound scapes with an experimental, electronic edge support existential/beat meditations and semi-linear narrative.
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