Various Artists - New Blood 18 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Pianist Sarah Bob is a passionate and trailblazing advocate of the music of our time who has introduced the music of dozens of living composers to the world. '... nobody move... ' is a collection of works by six award-winning composers whom Sarah commissioned for the Boston-based New Gallery Concert Series which she founded 20 years ago. Her exuberance and exactitude are common threads tying together the album's diverse musical dialects, from Jonathan Bailey Holland's evocative chord clusters in The Intimacy of Harmony to Curtis K. Hughes' electro-acoustic Avoidance Tactics #1 and his varied suite of miniatures, vestibulations; from the late Lee Hyla's energetic Solo Cadenzas from his large-scale orchestral work My Life on the Plains, lovingly arranged by Sarah Bob, to David Rakowski's cheeky 'Mind the Gap #18,' tender 'Wayo' and edgy 'Ghepardo;' from Shaw Pong Liu's powerful 'Never Has Been Yet,' which sets Langston Hughes' poem 'Let America Be America Again;' to Randall Woolf's fearlessly virtuosic title track. '... nobody move... ' is a striking album that ranges from in your face to contemplative moods, entertaining the ears of contemporary music lovers and novices alike. Album Tracks 1. ... Nobody Move 2. The Intimacy of Harmony 3. Three Préludes 4. Suite No. 1 from 'Vestibulations' for Solo Piano 5. Avoidance Tactics #1 for Piano and Electronics 6. Solo Cadenzas from My Life on the Plains 7. Never Has Been Yet

Album Tracks 1. Unfolding - Etherwood - Etherwood 2. Don't Look Back - Dexcell - Dexcell 3. The Second Before Snow Turns Into Water - Mr. Sizef - Mr. Sizef 4. Another Year - Anile - Anile 5. Plasticity - Minor Rain - Minor Rain 6. Cabin Fever - Optiv & Cza - Optiv & Cza 7. Isokime - Keeno & Whiney - Keeno & Whiney 8. Kaikaki - Bakai - Bakai 9. Rising & Falling - Barefoot - Barefoot 10. Perception - Drifta & Static - Drifta & Static 11. Outrage - Detail - Detail 12. Tourmaline - Engage - Engage 13. Somewhere Vivid - Twothirds - Twothirds 14. Frozen Sound - Joe Ford - Joe Ford

Sounds of New Music is a collection of 18 compositions from the 1920s to the mid-1950s representing attempts at a new means of musical expression. Some use familiar instruments in new ways, while others experiment with new instruments; the formats of the compositions range from structured musical scores written for orchestra to electronically altered music using tape-recording devices. Composers include Edgard Varese, Henry Cowell, and John Cage, whose Dance is played on a transformed Steinway piano that gives the music an almost primitive quality. Liner notes describing the new music feature a substantial article on Concrete Music. Album Tracks 1. Bahnfahrt 2. Symphony of Machines 3. Dnieprostrot 4. Dance 5. Ionization 6. Aeolian Harp 7. Banshee 8. Sonic Contours 9. Fantasy in Space 10. Symphonies in Sonic Vibration-Spectrum No. 1 11. Transposition 12. Reverberation 13. Compositionion 14. Underwater Waltz 15. Natural Pipes 16. Natural Pipes 17. Natural Pipes 18. Sonata for Loudspeakers