Browse by Label: CANTALOUPE

Artist:	BANG ON A CAN
Title:	Renegade Heaven
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21001CD

"Renegade Heaven is the most in-your-face recording to date of the Band on a Can All-Stars. The All-Stars have gained an international reputation for their extreme performances that take virtuosity to a new level and create an unparalleled atmosphere, powered by their unique combination of clarinet, cello, electric guitar, piano, bass and percussion. Renegade Heaven features the band in haunting compositions written just for them, in a fantastical blend of classical, microtonal, rock and pop styles." Pieces performed: Julia Wolfe: Believing, Arnold Dreyblatt: Escalator, Michael Gordon: I Buried Paul, Glenn Branca: Movement Within, Phil Kline: Exquisite Corpses. The Bang On A Can All Stars are: Maya Beiser (cello), Robert Black (bass), Lisa Moore (keyboards), Steven Schick (perc.), Mark Stewart (guitar) & Evan Ziporyn (clarinet).

Artist:	ZIPORYN, EVAN
Title:	This Is Not A Clarinet
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21002CD

"With a stunning array of slap-tongue drumming, clarinet power chords, and fuzz box-sounding multiphonics, Bang on a Can All-Star Ziporyn changes the instrument forever. An ambient/ethno/noise travelogue....The starting point for all the works are double-edged: musically, they start with acoustics, with the idea that musical substance resides in the entire overtone spectrum (the 'partials') rather than simply in the fundamentals; culturally, that the clarinet is an oral, folk instrument, whose function has always been to mediate between western and non-western music, between classical and non-classical idioms. Thus new works by contemporary American composers (Lang, Tenzer) which spring from vernacular inspirations (James Brown, Croatian vocal music, etc.) are placed next to re-workings of traditional musics from Japan, Bali, and East Africa...The pieces all mediate between worlds, thereby creating unique compositional languages."

Artist:	LANG, DAVID
Title:	The Passing Measures
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21003CD

David Lang's newest lush and meditative work: a 43-minute ambient extravaganza for bass clarinet, amplified orchestra and women's voices. "More and more I have become convinced that one of the noblest things you can do in a piece of 'serious' music is to allow for an experience that can't happen in your everyday life. My piece is about the struggle to create beauty. A single very consonant chord falls slowly over the course of forty minutes. That is the piece. Every aspect of the piece is on display, however -- magnified, examined, amplified, prolonged. The soloist's notes are impossibly long, requiring frequent drop-outs for breath and for rest. The players are all instructed to play as quietly as possible, and then are amplified at high volume, in order to make their restraint an issue of the piece. Four percussionists scrape pieces of junk metal from start to finish, as if to accompany the consonance of the chords with sounds of dirt and decay." -- David Lang

Artist:	RILEY, TERRY
Title:	In C
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21004CD

"In 1964, Terry Riley kicked off a revolution called 'minimalism' with his landmark piece, In C. Starting with a single repeated note, the piece unfolds with a meditative inevitability that inspired the work of Philip Glass and Steve Reich, and set the stage for 'Ambient' and 'New Age' music. Now, Bang on a Can reinterprets this minimalist classic with its exuberant, urban, ethno, loaded-with-attitude sound. In an explosive combination of electric guitar, mandolin, winds, strings, electronics, percussion from around the globe, and the ancient Chinese pipa, Bang on a Can propels this transcendental 60's masterpiece into the future."

Artist:	KLINE, PHIL
Title:	Unsilent Night
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21005CD

"In what has become a cult holiday tradition, Phil Kline goes 'electronic caroling' through the streets of Greenwich Village with a parade of boomboxes. Creating a euphoric blend of otherworldly voices and bells, Kline's ambient clouds of sound emerge from choirs of boomboxes. This is the first recording of this 21st century ritual. A unique and engaging contribution to the history of holiday music, Unsilent Night makes a truly unusual gift. Phil Kline's musical activities range from being part of Glenn Branca's guitar ensemble to his more recent collaboration with Luc Sante to writing commissions for ensembles across the globe."

Artist:	DREYBLATT, ARNOLD
Title:	The Adding Machine
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21006CD

"A disciple of LaMonte Young and Alvin Lucier, Arnold Dreyblatt has cultivated a strong underground fan base for his transcendental and ecstatic music. Among the second generation of New York minimalist composers, Dreyblatt has developed a unique and original approach to composition and performance. He has invented a set of new and original instruments, performance techniques and a system of tuning. The Orchestra of Excited Strings is a unique ensemble of strings -- plucked, bowed, and struck -- composed of instruments designed and built by Dreyblatt to illuminate the strings' hot overtones." Performed by: Robert Black, Jeff Lieberman, Laurel P. Smith, Mark Stewart, Danny Tunick & Evan Ziporyn.

Artist:	GORDON, MICHAEL
Title:	Decasia
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21008CD

"Decasia is a large-scale single movement relentlessly monumental work about decay -- the decay of melody, the decay of tuning, the decay of classical music itself. Following the atmospheric ambiance of his recent string orchestra piece Weather (Nonesuch) Michael Gordon's new work retunes a giant amplified orchestra to resemble a piano fallen from a great height, with gripping strings, four detuned pianos, and massive winds and brass. The sound is Mahlerian and huge -- stratospheric harmonies decay into another, giant blocks of sounds shift and fall -- like an earthquake giving off a tremendous energy."

Artist:	REICH, STEVE
Title:	The Desert Music, Tehillim
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21009CD

"Cantaloupe presents two Reich masterpieces, definitively performed by Alarm Will Sound and Ossia, led by Alan Pierson. The disc features the world premiere recording of the newly revised version of 'The Desert Music'. It is also the debut of a brilliant young American conductor, who has molded an energetic, tight, optimistic, rhythmic and memorable sound out of these monumental works. About the performance: 'A truly outstanding ensemble. Their recording of Tehillim is an absolute knockout... and this recording sets the standard for how The Desert Music is to be performed. Alan Pierson brings a new generation of expertise and energy that is clearly heard in the faster tempos used throughout.' -- Steve Reich."

Artist:	BANG ON A CAN
Title:	Classics
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21010CD

"Too funky for the academy, the Bang on a Can All-Stars emerged from the scruffy environs of downtown New York playing a new kind of music, with a new kind of energy, for a new kind of audience. This is the music that made them famous -- their breakthrough CDs for Sony Classical, newly packaged, remastered onto one 74-minute disc. Music from Bang on a Can co-founders Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, Bang on a Can All-Stars member and acclaimed composer-clarinetist Evan Ziporyn, and innovators Nick Didkovsky, Annie Gosfield and Lois Vierk. With this music, Bang on a Can cracked open a powerful new world. Hear why."

Artist:	WOLFE, JULIA
Title:	The String Quartets
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21011CD

"Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe has turned the string quartet world upside down with these hip and innovative works. Ferocious and fresh, Wolfe's quartets, played here in blistering performances by the Lark Quartet, Cassatt Quartet and featuring one of the most-talked-about new NYC quartets, Ethel, have been exciting audiences, quartets and critics for the last ten years. Defying classification, Wolfe's music conveys intensity and intimacy, a virtuosity and joy of sound that turns the string quartet into a relentless high voltage vehicle of expression."

Artist:	ANDRIESSEN, LOUIS
Title:	Gigantic Dancing Human Machine
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21012CD

"Dutch composer Louis Andriessen turned minimalism upside down in the 1970's with his radical musical responses to American experimentalists Reich, Riley and Glass. He challenged these composers' trance-like states with a European sense of edginess and angularity, and the results are exciting and overpoweringly aggressive. Hoketus -- the landmark of European minimalism --takes its name from the medieval art of hocketing, splitting a single melody between two groups of instruments separated in space. Earth-shattering and tribal in its elemental power, Andriessen described this piece as a Gigantic Dancing Human Machine. Its recording is an international collaboration of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, members of London's Icebreaker ensemble, and musicians from Andriessen's own group. 'Workers Union' and 'Hout' both generate high-voltage energy out of wild unison melodies and rhythms. The Bang on a Can All-Stars have worked closely with Andriessen over the past 10 years, bringing to these works their intense dedication and extreme musicality, and performing them all over the world."

Artist:	LANG, DAVID
Title:	Child
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21013CD

"David Lang follows his highly-acclaimed Cantaloupe debut The Passing Measures with this major new work for seven musicians. Child is a powerful meditation on childhood and memory. Sweet and simple on the surface, gentle musical fragments float by, leaving faint traces of darkness in their wake. The result is at once dramatic and personal, intensely introspective and piercingly beautiful. Written in five separate parts for some of Europe's finest groups, Child is recorded here by the Italian ensemble Senrierri Selvaggi."

Artist:	RZEWSKI, FREDERIC
Title:	Which Side Are You On?
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21014CD

"The first woman to record Frederic Rzewski's setting of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, Bang On A Can/Steve Reich pianist Lisa Moore sheds powerful new light on Wilde's jailhouse meditation on imprisonment, debasement and the barriers that he faced as a homosexual. Rzewski, one of the great revolutionary American composers, has created an aggressively emotional soundtrack to Wilde's moving prose. De Profundis breaks down the boundaries between a piano recital and a theatrical experience. Written for a virtuosic pianist also sings, shouts, and declaims, Rzewski's masterpiece is given a gripping re-interpretation by the fiery Moore, who brings a new character to the work through her passionate piano performance and compelling voice."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Music in Fifths, Two Pages
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21016CD

"Cantaloupe continues its recording series of the masterworks of the music of our time with this brilliant disc of two early classics by composer Philip Glass, performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Glass is arguably minimalism's most well-known and influential composer. Before his bins soundtracks, before his operas, before his universal acclaim, there were these early works for keyboard -- all intense, rugged and demanding. In 'Music in Fifths' and 'Two Pages', Philip Glass's ideas are at their most basic, using only addition and subtraction of notes in simple scales to create epic, hypnotic musical forms. With their first new studio recording since Renegade Heaven, the Bang on a Can All Stars received these works for their groundbreaking sound of clarinet, cello, bass, piano, marimba, and electric guitar."

Artist:	KLINE, PHIL
Title:	Zippo Songs
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21019CD

"Zippo Songs is a collection of deeply moving and intense songs featuring poetry inscribed on the cigarette lighters of American GIs during the Vietnam war. Kline has set these profound and often desperate poems with a calm and sacred spaciousness that echoes through the listener as if the soldiers themselves are singing to us from the afterlife. Coupled with songs set too texts by current US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Zippo Songs is Kline's fascinating and eloquent statement on war and politics of war, and a fresh and new take on the age-old tradition of the protest song. Phil Kline studied at Columbia University and Mannes College of Music, later founding the art punk band the Del-Byzanteens with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, write Luc Sante, and painter James Nares, and worked on film and video projects with artists such as Nan Goldin and Wim Wenders."

Artist:	GUTBUCKET
Title:	Dry Humping the American Dream
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21021CD

"With in-your-face rock n' roll production, fiery playing, and live energy caught to tape, Gutbucket crashes through genre boundaries to create a gripping soundtrack to 2004. Gutbucket is fearlessly devoted to unique, pushy melodies, high-energy rhythms and improvisational adventures. Their vast repertoire courses through playful circular movement, elastic time twists and rapid-fire banter. This is their second release after their debut Insomniacs Dream (Knitting Factory Records).."

Artist:	SO PERCUSSION
Title:	Sō Percussion
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21022CD

"This self-titled debut recording by a group of young mavericks of the percussion world features the recording premieres of ground-breaking works by David Lang and Evan Ziporyn. Ziporyn's Balinese gamelan-influenced Melody Competition intermixes a lush soundscape with a driving competition between the players. Langs 'so-called laws of nature' (written for So Percussion) is simultaneously meditative and climactic. The group presents these works using traditional percussion instruments found in classical, rock, and world music combined with unique homemade instruments ranging from giant pipes to flower pots."

Artist:	BANG ON A CAN
Title:	Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21023CD

"Bang on a Can meets Burma in this cross-cultural collaboration with legendary composer and percussionist Kyaw Kyaw Naing. Naing is a renowned master of the pat waing (also known as the Burmese Drum Circle), a set of 21 separately tuned drums played melodically at lightning fast speed. Niangs blazing tempos and blistering musicality have made him famous throughout Southeast Asia and he has become highly sought after as a composer of music for film and as a live performer at Burma's traditional kickboxing tournaments. On this CD, working with Western musicians for the very first time, Niang matches his mastery of an ancient drumming technique with the edgy 21st century fireworks of Bang on a Can."

Artist:	ICEBREAKER
Title:	Cranial Pavement
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21024CD

"Cantaloupe Music is proud to introduce to North America the excitement and energy of Icebreaker -- the UK's foremost contemporary music band. This 12-piece high-voltage group has been drawing screaming fans to packed houses all over Europe while sending the critics into a free-fall with their in-your-face aggressive, fast, loud and sexy sound. With their amplified forces of panpipes, saxophones, electric violin, cello, guitar, keyboards and drums, UK audiences speak of them in the same breath as Bang on a Can and the Kronos Quartet. Icebreaker's brand new studio recording could be titled 'On the Heels of Nancarrow.'"

Artist:	REICH, STEVE
Title:	Drumming
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21026CD

"New recording of a Steve Reich classic. Following up on their acclaimed 2004 debut, So Percussion has completed its biggest project so far: an entirely new recording of Steve Reich's epic Drumming, made an entirely new way. This is the first recording of its kind, in which the group's four members perform all nine separate percussion parts, joined by the singers of Reich's own ensemble. The result is a direct, precise sound, with a clarity that illuminates the work as never before. Simply put, this CD brings the percussion world's Beethoven 9th into the 21st century."

Artist:	BITTOVA, IVA/BANG ON A CAN
Title:	Elida
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21027CD

"For her first major US release since her eponymous 1998 Nonesuch debut, the unparalleled Czech violinist/ singer/ composer Iva Bittova has teamed up with the genre-bending Bang on a Can All-Stars. Elida finds Bittova using the All-Stars as her orchestra. Sweeping piano lines meet full string ensemble settings. Clarinet improvisations meet electric guitar noise. Flowing seamlessly between Eastern European classical music and folk traditions, Bittova combines angular Janacek inspired string writing with a heart-breaking Czech vocal melody."

Artist:	ALARM WILL SOUND
Title:	Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21028CD

"Alarm Will Sound, a young 22-piece new music band featuring voices, strings, woodwinds, and percussionists, received high praise from around the world for their debut release on Cantaloupe featuring the music of Steve Reich. Now the band takes on the music of twisted techno master Aphex Twin on Acoustica. Alarm Will Sound has, with a cadre of ten arrangers, painstaking recreated and rethought Aphex Twin's legendary electronic work for an all-acoustic ensemble. From creative new transcription ideas to using non-standard 'classical music' instruments to ensuring that all four drummer are kept busy with Aphex Twin's unimaginably intricate beats, this sounds like no CD you've heard before. Also included are bonus remixes of the remixes by the emerging Berlin-based techno master Dennis DeSantis."

Artist:	LANG, DAVID
Title:	Elevated
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21029CD

"Dark, emotional and exquisitely beautiful, David Lang's new CD Elevated has premiere recordings of three recent works. Taken together, these pieces create a world in while consonance fights dissonance, hope struggles against hopelessness, and simple melodies are constantly beset by gravity, weight and decay. This DVD captures collaborations between Lang and three giants of contemporary visual arts: pioneer William Wegman, experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison (Decasia), and conceptual artist Matt Mullican. Lang used his pieces as a way to open up different pathways to these artists and their work, setting an early (and very controversial) Wegman video to music, and giving music to Morrison and Mullican for them to build new visuals around. The results are stunning, moody and sometimes very disturbing."

Artist:	SENTIERI SELVAGGI
Title:	AC/DC
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21030CD

"Milan, the center of cutting edge fashion, fine cuisine and considered by many to be the European capital of style, is also the center of the cutting edge fashion in music. Milan is home to the feisty young ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi, a band of intrepid composers and performers who have taken southern Europe by storm. Led by composers Carlo Boccadoro and Filippo del Corno, Sentieri Selvaggi is a collective of musicians dedicated to breaking down barriers between pop and high art, between music and theater, between the concert hall and the street. Sentieri Selvaggi (Wild Paths) has already been acclaimed for their debut collection of some of their most defining work, including premiere recordings of new works by Louis Andriessen, Laurie Anderson, David Lang, Michael Gordon and Decca international recording sensation Ludovico Einaudi."

Artist:	FRASCA, DOMINIC
Title:	Deviations
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21032CD

"Dominic Frasca is blasting open the guitar world with his outrageous virtuosity. His recent breakthrough on Nonesuch Recordings of Steve Reich's Electric Guitar Phase brought him to the public ear. Now with his first solo disc, Frasca redefines the technique and brings the guitar into an entirely new universe. Deviations finds Frasca playing on multiple string guitars that he created -- at times building specific instruments for one track. Sounding like an orchestra of sonic guitars, his complex, intricate, and beautiful music is made completely live with Frasca's multitasking mastery (you won't believe there are no overdubs). As he taps, picks, and pulls the strings, hitting blocks of wood against the guitar body, Frasca never ceases to reinvent the instrument."

Artist:	ADAMS, JOHN LUTHER
Title:	The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21034CD

"Born in 1953 and raised on the East Coast, composer John Luther Adams studied composition with James Tenney, Harold Budd, Leonard Stein, Morton Subotnick and Mel Powell. In the mid-'70s, he moved to Alaska, where he has lived ever since. An active environmentalist, Adams worked for several years as executive director of the Northern Alaska Environmental Center and has been a leader in the Green Party of Alaska. He has worked as a wilderness guide and traveled extensively throughout the far north, pursuing a strong love for wild places and indigenous Alaskan culture. Adams' music creates a unique musical world grounded in wilderness landscapes, indigenous cultures and natural phenomena from the songs of birds to elemental noise. His output includes works for orchestra, small ensembles, percussion and electronic media. Percussionist Steven Schick is an original member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars. This is his first full-length CD on Cantaloupe Music and it coincides with the release of his first book -- The Percussionist's Art which features Schick's keen insights about percussion music in the 20th-21st century. A former percussionist himself, Adams finds music from the earth and brings it to life in this composition. The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies is an unadulterated ambient soundscape that takes a journey through different sonic textures and environments, aided by a beautiful production and Schick's breathtaking performance."

Artist:	DUBOIS, R. LUKE
Title:	Timelapse
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21035CD

"Roger Luke DuBois is a composer, programmer and video artist living in New York City. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University and teaches interactive sound and video performance at Columbia's Computer Music Center, New York University, and the School of Visual Arts. He has done interactive programming and music production work for many artists, most recently Toni Dove, Chris Mann, Elliott Sharp and Michael Gordon. DuBois's 'Billboard' is a composite of all the Billboard #1 Hits from 1958-2000. DuBois analyzed all 857 songs digitally, and created a 'spectral average' -- a sonic summation of all frequencies in the song -- for each one. He then allocated each song 1 second for each week it was #1 on the charts. The resultant 37-minute-long piece contains beautiful washes of sound -- and serves as a unique chronicling of the history of US pop charts, and the songs' continually-changing longevity, tonality and production. DuBois applies this theory to two other classics -- Bach's 'Well-Tempered Clavier,' (both books in 5 minutes) and the entire soundtrack of Casablanca. A genius's redefinition of how we think about and listen to music, the resultant disc is and ambient masterwork. 'I didn't write this music, and I didn't curate this music. I'm just figuring out a way to present it for people to listen to.' (DuBois on NPR's Studio 360).

Artist:	BANG ON A CAN & DON BYRON
Title:	A Ballad For Many
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21036CD

"After years of live collaboration, Don Byron and Bang on a Can have put together a spectacular follow-up to Byron's Grammy nominated Ivey Divey. The acclaimed clarinetist shows off his talent as a composer on A Ballad For Many, his new CD with the genre-blurring Bang on a Can All-Stars. The disc is dedicated to ground-breakers, with large-scale works dedicated to one-of-a-kind comic/satirist/star Ernie Kovacs and the Tuskegee Airmen, the famous African-American WWII-era fighter squadron. Features the Bang on a Can All-Stars at their best, whether negotiating breathtaking cello-piano duets or rocking out with one of Byron's great grooves. This CD creates a unique opportunity to hear Byron's music interpreted by a group other than his own."

Artist:	GORDON/LANG/WOLFE
Title:	The Carbon Copy Building
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21038CD

"The Carbon Copy Building is a dynamic and visually stunning trip through the gritty underside of urban life. Words and drawings by celebrated New Yorker comic-strip artist and recent MacArthur Grant recipient Ben Katchor are brought vividly to life by music from Bang on a Can co-artistic directors Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe. Rock band meets opera, The Carbon Copy Building is a full-length work for four singers and winds, keys, guitar, and drums; and is the first major collaborative work from the Bang on a Can co-artistic directors. The revolutionary show won The Village Voice 2000 OBIE Award for Best New American Work, and embraces the dark, witty humor of Katchor, known for his cult classic underground comic, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. After many years, the work is finally out on CD, accompanied by Katchor's beautiful illustrated libretto; in a limited edition hard-bound book +CD case."

Artist:	SO PERCUSSION
Title:	Amid the Noise
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21039CD

"Four Tet and Tortoise meet Aphex Twin and Brian Eno in So Percussion's breakout indie-electronica project, Amid the Noise. Amid the Noise pushes So Percussion into the limelight as a one-of-a-kind band of four drummers. Breathtaking soundscapes and quietly surging beats are created live with a battery of percussion instruments from across the world, treated with minimalist electronic production from in-house producer Lawson White (Alarm Will Sound: Acoustica). A bonus DVD contains films of Jenise Treuting featuring beautiful Japanese street scenes set to music. Critics raved about So Percussion's first two discs. Their debut was dubbed a 'must-hear' by Billboard, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer remarked about their follow-up, 'Rarely does Western percussion sound so varied.'"

Artist:	ZIPORYN, EVAN
Title:	Frog's Eye
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21040CD

"Frog's Eye features a fascinating selection of Ziporyn's orchestral music. Partnering with the heralded Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Ziporyn moves the orchestra out of the Western Hemisphere and into the realm of world fusion using Balinese and Indian modes. 'Drill' features a solo by Ziporyn on bass clarinet and soprano Anne Harley sings poetry by Li Shangyin and W.S. Merwin on 'The Ornate Zither and the Nomad Flute'. Discussing his inspiration for the title track of this album, Ziporyn describes a frog sitting almost entirely immersed in water. 'Perfect stillness, perfect contemplation, patience, serenity, all that good Zen stuff...but they are in fact hard at work, staring intently, waiting for a moment of action and violence, for insects, for food.' Humans, in contrast, 'strive for a certain type of awareness, for multilayered perception, and occasionally we get there,' he says, 'but we seem to be built for subjective narrative. We've got to catch the fly to survive.'"

Artist:	BRESNICK, MARTIN
Title:	The Essential Martin Bresnick
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21041CD

"Cantaloupe Music celebrate the 60th birthday of Martin Bresnick -- one of America's leading composers and educators -- with definitive recordings of his music,. Bresnick has been a leading figure in the education of an entire generation of American musicians, having served as spiritual advisor to many of our most innovative and active composers, including Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Torke, and Bang On A Can's artistic directors Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe. This release contains a CD featuring definitive performances of his greatest works and an accompanying DVD of a new work For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, performed by Bang On A Can all-star pianist Lisa Moore."

Artist:	HARRISON, MICHAEL
Title:	Revelation
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21043CD

"A prot�g� of new music pioneer La Monte Young, composer-pianist Michael Harrison has developed one the most distinctive voices of our time, informed by his study of North Indian classical ragas and Middle Eastern rhythms. In Revelation (2001), his hypnotic seventy-minute work for solo piano, he employs the principles of harmonic resonance and just intonation to forge a remarkable new sound for the instrument, based on unfamiliar tunings and scales. Live performances of this strangely beautiful work have been praised for delivering 'heaping doses of old-fashioned, jaw-dropping virtuosity' (Los Angeles Times) and for generating 'pulsating shimmering walls of sound.' --The Wire."

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Artist:	ETHEL
Title:	Ethel
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21017CD