Browse by Artist: GARLAND, PETER

Artist:	GARLAND, PETER
Title:	String Quartets [1 & 2]
Label:	COLD BLUE MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	CB 031CD

"This CD presents the premiere recordings of two spirited and enticing quartets that draw on the composer's well-traveled ear and great sense of personal vision. Both works move with a unique sense of grace and a sincerity of expression that is purely Garlandesque -- marked by a sometimes lively dancing, a sometimes alluring stasis and an often sauntering gait that allow musical ideas to seem to appear intuitively and develop subconsciously. Performed and recorded beautifully by members of the renowned British new music ensemble Apartment House, which has for the past 15 years championed the music of such composers as Christian Wolf, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Philip Corner and many other experimental and avant-garde composers at major festivals throughout Europe. Peter Garland is a composer, world traveler, musicologist, writer and former publisher (Soundings Press). He studied music composition with Harold Budd and James Tenney at Cal Arts and maintained long friendships with Lou Harrison, Conlon Nancarrow, Paul Bowles and Dane Rudhyar. Since the early '70s, Garland's own music has been marked by a return to a 'radical consonance' and a simplification of formal structure influenced by Cage, Harrison, early minimalism and a great variety of world musics. His unique and highly engaging music has been performed around the world by such noted performers as pianists Aki Takahashi and Herbert Henck, percussionist William Winant, accordionist Guy Klucesvek and the Kronos Quartet and released on the Tzadik, New Albion, Cold Blue, Mode, Avant, Toshiba-EMI/Angel and other labels."

Artist:	GARLAND, PETER
Title:	Another Sunrise
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 110CD

"Peter Garland's music is a unique mixture of minimalism with influences from South/Central America, Asia and Native Americans; along with American mavericks Cage, Partch, Harrison, Cowell, and Varése -- while being uniquely American. The works on this record share a special meditative, and at times ecstatic, spirituality. Born in 1952, he studied with Harold Budd and James Tenney. Garland has a long artistic association with the performers on this disc. Essential Music's percussive talents present this music's exotic and brilliant sound in an authoritatively persuasive way. The recordings are composer supervised."

Artist:	GARLAND, PETER
Title:	The Days Run Away
Label:	TZADIK
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TZ 7053

"One of America's true maverick composers, a friend of Partch, Nancarrow, Cage, and countless others, Peter Garland is a tireless champion of new music, a passionate writer and one of the true unsung pioneers of minimalism. These evocative early piano pieces create hypnotic moods of impressionistic beauty and are some of his most personal musical statements. Beautifully performed by the brilliant pianist Aki Takahashi, to whom many of his works have been dedicated, this is an incredibly gorgeous CD of rediscovered masterpieces from the early days of minimalism."

Artist:	GARLAND, PETER
Title:	Love Songs
Label:	TZADIK
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TZ 8012

"Love Songs documents the long musical and personal association, dating back to 1971, between composer Peter Garland and the incredible percussion virtuoso William Winant. Produced by Winant, this CD features two pieces written expressly for the Abel-Steinberg-Winant trio, and a new recording of the classic Matachin Dances, composed for Malcolm Goldstein back in 1980. Another beautiful CD of romantic, melodic minimalism by a composer who has championed Conlon Nancarrow, Paul Bowles, Lou Harrison, Dane Rudhyar, Sylvestre Revueltas, and who bravely carries their legacy forward."

Artist:	GARLAND, PETER
Title:	Three Strange Angels
Label:	TZADIK
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TZ 8059

"This historic release presents the first recordings of the early music of Peter Garland, one of the most personal voices in the second generation of West Coast minimalists. Drawing inspiration from Native American and Mexican ritual music, Peter creates beautiful and lyrical sonic portraits. This long out-of-print masterpiece, considered by many to be Peter's greatest recording, was originally released in 1989 on WhatNext? as Border Music and is supplemented here by rare live recordings from the same period. Featuring new expanded notes by the composer and rare photos from the period, this is the definitive document of an American experimental classic."

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