#4282: New Releases, Sept. 2019

New Sounds | Sep 30, 2019

It's the most wonderful time of the month - time for new releases! John Schaefer sorts through all of the digital promo submissions, and a few physical releases - both newly uncovered and recently acquired - to present some of the finest new music from the month of September. 

Listen to a portion of a collaborative record – a guided journey through the Tibetan Book of the Dead, called Songs Of The Bardo - by Laurie Anderson, composer, storyteller and multimedia artist; the Tibetan multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and the composer/pianist Jesse Paris Smith. 

There’s also new work by computer music composer Carl Stone, Ekhodom (an offshoot of Thievery Corporation), singer and keyboardist Majel Connery, electroacoustic work by Nina Keith, a trans woman composer and multi-instrumentalist from Philadelphia (Keith's Bandcamp) and something new from Penguin Café. Plus, music by Floating Spectrum aka Taiwan-born, Berlin-based composer and audio technologist, Mei-Fang Liau made from a combination of synthesizers, everyday household objects, and unique software synthesizers made by Liau herself. - Caryn Havlik

Program #4282: New Releases, Sept. 2019 (First aired 9/30/2019)

ARTIST: Carl Stone
WORK: Fujiken (Final Section) [1:45]
RECORDING:  Himalaya
SOURCE: Unseen Worlds
INFO: 
unseenworlds.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Penguin Café
WORK: Chapter [6:44]
RECORDING: Handfuls of Night
SOURCE: Erased Tapes
INFO: 
erasedtapes.com | penguincafe.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Ekhodom
WORK: Kontakt [4:57]
RECORDING: Ekhodom
SOURCE: Montserrat House
INFO: sanfordco.com Due out Oct. 4

ARTIST: Carl Stone
WORK: Fujiken (Final Section) [5:46]
RECORDING:  Himalaya
SOURCE: Unseen Worlds
INFO: unseenworlds.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Majel Connery
WORK: Pretend To Cry [4:34]
RECORDING: Pretend To Cry
SOURCE/INFO: 
majelconnery.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Nina Keith
WORK: §97(a)_ You Were Never Young [4:16]
RECORDING: MARANASATI 19111
SOURCE/INFO: ninakeith.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith
WORK: Moon in the Water [5:15]
RECORDING: Songs from the Bardo
SOURCE: Smithsonian Folkways SFW40583
INFO: 
folkways.si.edu

ARTIST: Floating Spectrum
WORK: Descent to the hadal zone
RECORDING: A Point Between
SOURCE: Temporary Residence
INFO: 
temporaryresidence.com

ARTIST: Hilliard Ensemble, Jan Garbarek
WORK: Komitas: Ov Zarmanali [6:00]
RECORDING: Remember Me, My Dear
SOURCE: ECM 2625
INFO: ecmrecords.com
 | Due out Oct. 18, 2019 

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