#2954: New Music from Canada

New Sounds | Jul 1, 2011

For this New Sounds, we celebrate with an eclectic hour of new music from north of the border. Listen to electroacoustic music by Alain Thibault and piano minimalism from Anne Southam. Also, hear ambient music by Michael Brook (composer of the score to "An Inconvenient Truth,") and more.

PROGRAM # 2954, Canada Day (First aired on July 1, 2009)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Alan Thibault	Volt	Alan Thibault - ELVIS (electro-lux vertige illimite synthetique) [14:00]	Imedia 9003 www.electrocd.com has all details.
Laurel MacDonald	Luscinia’s Lullaby	Envelope of Many [5:06]	Improbable Music Imac CD04 www.improbablemusic.com
Mary Jane Lamond	Suas É!	Óran Sníomh (Spinning Song) [5:11]	BMG 63246 www.maryjanelamond.com OR download from iTunes
Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan	Sunda Song	Arang Arang [3:32]	Naxos World 76061 www.naxosworld.com
Djivan Gasparyan & Michael Brook	Black Rock	Immigrant’s Song [6:00]	Real World #46230** www.realworldrecords.com*
Ann Southam / Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano	Portraits	Ann Southam: Rivers, Part II [6:00]	Centrediscs 10505 www.musiccentre.ca
Jean Piche	Anthology of Canadian Music: Electroacoustic Music	Taxis to Burning Sky, excerpt [5:00]	See above.
Matthew Patton	Speaking in Tongues	Excerpt [3:00]	Marquis Classics #139. Out of print, but try auction sites.

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