Above this text should appear a menu of site links. If not, click here.
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.
|
ARTISTS TITLES |
DETAILS |
CATALOG # NOTES |
|
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 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 for Piano, Vol. 1 Op. 72, 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 for Piano, Vol. 1 Op. 71, 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 virtual 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.
|
