genre defying OPEN WORLDS
Seventh House Music Vol 10
This beautifully presented book celebrates the revival of Nga Taonga Puoro as experienced by one of New Zealand’s greatest advocates for the instruments, the inimitable Richard Nunns.
This series of multi-layered works, created and completed entirely in isolation, explores the lines between inner and outer tensions at a time of unease.
This collection features over three hours of music, 40 pieces of music with a strong improvisational focus.
Originally released on the Ode label as A Selection of Trouble Spots (1984), this album is a reinterpretation of the original multi-track recordings, which have been reworked to produce similar but variously altered pieces.
Inspired by the meditative beauty of Javanese gamelan, Jonathan Besser’s new album, CAMPURSARI, takes its title from an Indonesian musical term used to describe music that combines Western and gamelan instruments.
"The music of Free Radicals still, years later, sounds like no other, two experimental classical composers using technology developed primarily for pop music."
Elizabeth Kerr
On this recording Bill Direen teams up with Mark Willians (guitar) and Johannes Contag (drums) to form the performing trio, Ferocious.
