New Music for the Next Millennium
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Echograph is proud to announce the release of Go by the Ear Unit, one of America's premiere new music ensembles. Now in their 14th season as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Ensemble in Residence, the Ear Unit continues to present audiences with the works of today's cutting edge composers. This CD is the Ear Unit's most ambitious recording to date with pieces written for the Ear Unit by some of today's greatest living composers, John Adams, James Sellars, Frederic Rzewski, Julia Wolfe, and John Bergamo. |
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Amy Knoles second release with Echograph, is a complete recording of Amy's solo multimedia percussion piece entitled 2x10x10x10+1. This CD portrays a stark yet hopeful view of the millennium to come. Knoles blends sampled voices, computer generated sounds and an array of percussive instruments into a music that is both strange and enjoyable. This CD provides a glimpse into Amy's pop music sensibilities that many of her new music fans will find surprising and delightful. |
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Don Preston is known to jazz and keyboard aficionados for his pioneering contributions in the use of synthesizers and piano. Many will recognize the name, Don Preston, from his long collaboration with Frank Zappa as the keyboardist in the Mothers of Invention. This CD is a must have for all fans and is a powerful introduction for those new to the music of Don Preston. |
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Fascinating, unpredictable, complex,... Amy Knoles' performances redefine "New Music". Amy is a performer/composer that stretches expectations and annihilates the limits of expression in music through her mastery of technique, which effortlessly glides from ancient exotic instruments to state-of-the-art electronic percussion controllers and interactive computer... |
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The Oil Junkys explore the dystopia of our modern sonic environment, blending seemingly unrelated music, sound and voice together freely and with deliberate contradiction. The result is a rich sound montage of musical and audio events that range from the visceral to the sublime. |
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