New Albion Records

New Music from the 14th century to the end of time...

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And Don't Call Them ‘Lady’ Composers
By Pauline Oliveros
Sept. 13, 1970
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"No label is more offbeat than San Francisco's New Albion Records."
"...Louis Andriessen's "Hoketus," an unrelenting 24-minute work whose pounding rhythms seem static until they suddenly change and blow you out of your seat."
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Who was Betty Freeman and why was she so important to 20th-century music? @MusicMagazine

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Nice letter from Horace Silver
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Beautiful letters from Lou-

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‘It was Mozart’s boast that he could master any musical style within a week... Lou Harrison has something of that virtuosity himself...and he mixes things with infallible imagination’ - Virgil Thomson
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Shaker Loops
Shaking and Trembling
Hymning Slews
Loops and Verses
A Final Shaking
The Ridge Quartet- Krista Bennion, Robert Rhinehart, violin
Ah Ling Nue, viola
Jennifer Culp, cello
Dan Smiley, violin; Judiyaba, cello; Gary Lowendusky, bass
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In the Great Abbey of Clement VI was originally released on the iconic 1750 Arch St Records in Berkeley, CA. Here is a video excerpt of the Cunningham Dance Company from that same era.

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Seattle television interview with Stuart Dempster

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The first note is the loudest, overpowering, and after the live playing stops it continues for 14 seconds until the next note. https://t.co/RdfcJDYC4g

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#logo #mobile #oldplans
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The Key to Songs is an imaginary ballet inspired by Max Ernst's novel, A Week of Kindness, It is a novel in melodramatic, and often erotic, illustrations, which were culled from French popular fiction and then modified by Ernst, a Surrealist painter.
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Re Birds in Warped Time II “ ...Impressionistic violin solo over a quietly rippling, repetitive piano figure, bring together hints of Ravelian mystery, a tinge of pentatonic Orientalism and a decidedly Minimalist impulse.” 12/7/86 - New York Times - Allan Kozinn

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Somei Satoh is a largely self taught Japanese composer. At times compared to Arvo Part or other spiritual minimalists, Satoh’s voice is rooted in his time and place, and his subject is time, and space from a Buddhist world view.
Litania - Somei Satoh
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Would you call yourself a maverick? #daniellentz https://t.co/Ek1IGpWRh3

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Sometimes we would get fan mail

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As an author and poet, she published such works as “The Butterfly Rises,” “The Guest in the Garden” and “Fragments: My Path Through the 20th Century.”

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O-ke-wa (North American Eclipse)
Lyrics by Kit Tremaine
* for 12 voices with bells, rasps and drums.
Katherine ‘Kit’ Tremaine; Author, Philanthropist and Activist
Director: Arlene Dunlap
Engineer and mixing: Gregory T Heap, Oliver DiCicco
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She considered the listing “a high honor.” Tremaine created the Sunflower Foundation, which provided financial support to 1,000 organizations that work for Native American betterment, civil rights, peace, housing reform and environmental, labor and women’s issues.