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Rune
Nexus Plays the Music of Hawkins, Tenney and Mather
The Canadian quintet NEXUS approaches the notion of the percussion ensemble with an ear for innovation and a discipline for virtuosity.
Farewell to the Mountains
Japanese Melodies for Guitar
This recording ranges from some of the best loved traditional Japanese melodies to contemporary works inspired through Eastern influence.
"Norman Learo's compositions are vivid, colourful and captivating. His hyper-virtuosic guitar style is supported by a deep musicianship." - Michel Cardin
A wild mixture of solo marimba, Zimbabwean thumb piano, electronic experiment and contemporary jazz.
"The opening minutes of this cd were chosen by the CBC-radio morning request show Here's to You as their theme music. The section called Pacific Suite are excerpts from various movies that Michael has scored."
"Mike Gauthier and company have created an aura of sound which will not only reassure the listener that all is well in the realm of modern instrumental music, but also provide many hours of extraordinary listening pleasure." - Archie Shepp
Mike Gauthier decided for this CD to "reflect" on the bluesier side of the jazz spectrum, and in this recording Gauthier & Co. go from the basic 12 bar form to standard american song forms "à la blues" including along the way, other originals that Mike describes as "not necessarily blues numbers, but tunes that lend themselves well to the blues mentality."
The Legend of Heimdall
Concerto Del Garda Pershing Concerto
Raum's The Legend of Heimdal and other works for Tuba and Orchestra.
More than anything else, Back To Back, is about teamwork, in this case the team of Canadian Hugh Fraser and Virgin Islands expatriate, Jean Toussaint. The players bring to bear on this collaboration their enormous talents, honed over the course of their already remarkable careers.
The sounds here represent the wide open way we play for warm listening jazz club crowds. The solos stretch and the individuals go for it. It's exciting, rough and honest - a snapshot of one very special night for us - our first ever live recording.
Dancing Rivers
from South Africa to Canada
Carol Anne Weaver's third CD, Dancing Rivers - From South Africa to Canada, is adventurous, unique, ground breaking.
Journey Begun is a musical “genre-bender,” bringing together a folk/blusey singer, funk/classical pianist, groove/new music guitarist, classical/jazz bassist, and classical string quartet to create new musical fusions which set unique colors for this refreshing collection of Canadian and American poetry.
"These mature works point the way toward an integration of the folk and structuralist elements of Western music at the end of the twentieth century. Clearly the ideas of nationalism have not died, as long as composers such as Neceski continue to use their ethnic roots as a basis for their art." - Menon Dwarka
Jete
Music For Violin
Rivka Golani, viola and Louis-Philippe Pelletier, piano perform works by Brian Cherney.
G.E.M.S. (Group of the Electronic Music Studio), initiated by John Oliver, Claude Schryer and Alcides Lanza in May, 1983, is a composer / performer chamber ensemble specializing in electroacoustic works, especially those created using the resources of the McGill University Electronic Music Studios.
Improvisations
14 piano studies
Sinfonia
Compositions by Ray Twomey
Mr. Underhill writes: "I have long been fascinated by the unusual and poetic place-names for lunar features which were created by Johannes Ricciocoli in the mid-17th century. One such name is the 'Bay of Dew' or 'Sinus Roris' in Latin. The 'Bay of Dew' is in fact a crater on the moon, but in my mind, I envisaged a tiny body of water that had been entirely created by the gradual collection of precious drops of dew as they formulated in the early morning hours."
The Evergreen Club is an ensemble of eight musicians who perform on a collection of bronze, wood, bamboo and stringed instruments. Together these instruments are known as a gamelan, which has been an important part of Indonesian musical life for centuries.
The Last Lp
Unique Last Recordings Of The Music Of Ancient Cultures
In 1987, Snow issued The Last LP (Art Metropole), which purported to be a documentary disc of the dying gasps of ethnic musical cultures from around the globe including Tibet, Syria, India, China Brazil, Finland and elsewhere.Go to Top
