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Out on the edge, always years ahead of its time
is the much maligned Avant Garde; destroying itself
often before it can be absorbed into the mainstream --
forget style and conformity, here integrity to one's vision is all.


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Tom Bergeron

Saxophone Alone

Telemann, Britten, Persichetti,
Bonneau, White, Bergeron
MCD-2204

59 min.

classical
avant garde

Tessa Brinckman
&
East West Continuo

Glass Sky

debut CD
NPM-LD-021

69 min.

classical
avant-garde


Califas Rhythm Ensemble

Locations

Mike Curtis, woodwinds
Dave Storrs, percussion & tuba
Rob Blakeslee, trumpet
Dan Scollard, timbales,
NPM-LO-1007

59 min.

jazz
avant garde

Dariush Dolat-Shahi

garden of butterflies

gentle pulsing, colorful
textures and mosaic-
like patterns traverse
sophisticated transitions
NPM-RMD-01

56 min.

classical
avant garde
electronic
Teruhisa Fukuda

Shakuhachi Banquet

Shika-no-tone, Kumoi-ji-shi,
Sokaku-reibo


Yanagida, Sumi, Gabel
NPM-LD-001

54 min.

classical
avant garde
traditional
world

Teruhisa Fukuda

Esprits Animaux

Atsuki Sumi, Choji Kaneta,
Koji Izumi,Yukiou Maeda,
Yoshiyuki Doi,
NPM-ALCD-9005

56 min.

classical
avant garde
world

Teruhisa Fukuda

Esprits Animaux Part II

with
Takahashi & Suzuki, violins;
Nakamura, viola; Yamauchi, cello
performing Kaneta, Doi, Naoshi
Kukiyama, Izumi, Sumi
LMCD-1507

60 min.

classical
avant garde
world

Jack Gabel

Dog Star


Electroacoustic works spanning 20 years

"Gabel's voice is distinct...style: a broad lyricism, nuanced electronics, New Age moodiness, modernist roots and humor."
-- David Stabler, The Oregonian
NPM LD 010

74 min.

classical
avant garde
new world age


Jack Gabel
Spring Quartet and selected works for strings
performed by fEARnoMUSIC

"...intriguingly brainy yet intensely heartfelt Portland composer..."
-- Grant Menzies, Willamete Week

NPM-LD-020

70 min.

classical / avant-garde


Guillermo Galindo

Kiyohime
Sound Images

music from the 1996 dramatic
dance staging of the ancient
Japanese legend Kiyohime
NPM-D-2001

46 min.

classical
avant garde
electronic

gal*in_dog

s_nd

gal*in_dog howls for something, but nobody knows what
NPM-sn_d-2004

69 min.

avant garde


Jospeh M. Levin

Passageways

The compositions on this CD are "aural dramas" about the forces that create passageways and the beings that move through them.
JL-9107

34'27"

classical
avant-garde


Gary Noland

Gary Noland
Selected Music from Venge Art

a Chamber Novel for Narrator, Musicians, Actors, Dancers & Culinary Artists

Composer Gary Noland is possessed of a rich musical imagination, whose technique distills the achievements of Reger, Strauss and Schoenberg but also refracts their post-romantic/expressionist tendencies through the lens of twenty-first century post-modernism, American style.
NPM-LD-012

75 min.

classical
avant garde

Gary Noland

24 Postludes
Op. 72, Vol.1
Nos.1-12


"...up to your usual iconoclastic, stylistic potpourri standards of giddy humor, no holds barred soup to nuts and high spirits."
-- Robert Levin
NPM-LD-018

71 min.

classical
avant garde


Gary Noland

24 Postludes for Piano, Vol. 2

NPM LD 025

75 min.

solo piano
classical/ avant garde


Gary Noland

24 Interludes
Op. 71, Vol.1
Nos.1-12


"...maddeningly wild...wildly entertaining."
-- Jackie T. Gabel
North Pacific Music
NPM-LD-019

73 min.

classical
avant garde


Gary Noland

24 Interludes for Piano, Vol. 2

NPM LD 025

74 min.

solo piano
classical/ avant garde


Gary Noland

Royal Oilworks Music

NPM LD 025

74 min.

electo-acoutic
classical/ avant garde


7th Species

Playerless Pianos

virtual music
for pianos
virutal and otherwise

Gary Noland
David Denniston
Richard Freeman-Toole
Atsuki Sumi
Joseph Waters
Jackie T. Gabel
Guillermo Galindo
NPM-LD-007

62 min.


Trio Spektrum

Dreams of a Dancer

Svoboda, Cui,
Lutoslawski,
Aubin,
Hoover,
and Saint-Saens
NPM-LD-011

66 min.

classical
flute, clarinet,
piano trios

Tomas Svoboda

Four Visions
Music for 1, 2 and 3 Pianos


Tomas Svoboda, David Svec, Daniel Wiesner ~ pianos

Sonata for Two Pianos, Op. 55
Suite for Piano 4 Hand, Op. 124
Four Visions for Three Pianos, Op. 158
NPM-LD-013

61 min.

classical
piano

Tomas Svoboda

Nine Etudes in Fugue Style
composer at the piano

Volume 1, Op. 44, Volume 2, Op. 98

Seminal work by a major American composer, these piano etudes have been compared to the keyboard works of Bela Bartok by editors of Piano Quarterly, once the most highly respected American publication on piano music.
NPM-LD-015

58 min.

classical
piano


Tomas Svoboda

String Quartets
Vol. 1, No. 1-4

Martinu Quartet
NPM LD 022

76 min.

string quartet
classical /avant garde


Dave Storrs
and friends

GUSS as is
LOU-2686

61 min.


Joseph Waters


Joseph Waters
NPM-LD-009

68 min.

classical
avant garde


Rozanna Weinberger
Evelyne Luest

PASSION

Rochberg, Enescu, Noland
Steinke and Gabel
NPM-LD-003

64 min.

classical
avant garde


Takayoshi Yanagida

Orchestra Works Vol. 1

The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
The Sapporo Symphony Orchestra

conductors
Kazuhiko Komatsu & Kzuyoshi Akiyama

soloists
Hiroaki Masunaga - flute
Noriko Sanagi - 20-string koto
Yukine Uehara - piano
NPM-LD-023

73 min.


Zabol

Andrew Hosch
Jessie Isaac

Through the
Persian Night
NPM-EP-06

52 min.




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