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NEWS

SOFIA GUBAIDULINA

REVIEWS:
EUROCK / VARIOUS: "EUROCK: THE GOLDEN AGE" (Audio CD / CD-ROM)
Eurock
KLAUS SCHONNING: "STARS IN THE NIGHT" Fonix Musik
JIM BRICKMAN: "MY ROMANCE" Windham Hill Records
ROBIN SPIELBERG: "DREAMING OF SUMMER" Playmountain Music
BRUNO SANFILIPPO: "SUITE PATAGONIA" AD21
JUAN CARLOS GARCIA: "THE LEGEND OF THE SOLAR ANGELS" Pulsar
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NEWS

NEW RELEASES / RE-RELEASES / DISTRIBUTIONS
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Enya: "A Day Without Rain"

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Delerium: "Poem" (Limited edition) (Box set)

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Angels Of Venice & Carol Tatum: "Music For Harp"

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"Huronic Minor" is the title of a work of Ambient music composed
by Matt Borghi. Inspired by a terrible storm in 1913, the six
pieces suggest slow recorded images of the unrestrained fury of
the natural elements.
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Kazue Sawai at the koto, Michel Doneda at the saxo and Tetsu
Saitoh at the bass developed some improvisations of experimental
music during a concert near Tokio in 1999. "Live at Hall Egg Farm"
gathers the surprising music these artists created.
More information here:
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"The Empty Bowl" is a collection of themes with a meditative, deep
air, performed by Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin with the Shakuhachi
flute, an instrument linked to Japanese religious practices since
the fourteenth century that is believed to have been introduced in
this country from China more than a thousand years ago.
More information here:
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Musicians Elliott Sharp, John Kruth, Jonathan Segel and Atilla
Engin regal us in "Moon Dog Girl" a refreshing journey to the most
exotic frontiers of Jazz. In their vigorous music we find elements
from Rock, World Music and New Instrumental Music, among other
styles.
More information here:
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Greg C. Powers at the trombone and Stuart Dempster with a
Didgeridoo with John Diamond integrate the nucleus of Pran. In
their album "Raga for the rainy season" these artists improvise on
a basis established by Mian Tansen, a musician of the sixteenth
century, following ancient Hindi techniques of musical
experimentation.
More information here:
http://www.sparklingbeatnik.com

"Blue" is a special release in four CDs that gathers recordings by
Robert Fox and David Wright, two masters of current electronic
music. Dominated.by melodic symphonism, the pieces tend to be very
warm, wondrous, full of emotions, and colored by a subtle
romanticism, as well as somewhat melancholy.
More information here:
http://www.admusic.ltd.uk

"The Church of Gary Numan: a Dark Celebration" is a tribute that
Jim Collins makes to Gary Numan and his music. In it he pays
attention to the different aspects in the style of this great
artist, as well as to all that lies in his musical creations. An
exquisitely elaborated CD, which will no doubt appeal to the fans
of Gary Numan.
More information here:
http://www.churchofgarynuman.com

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community has presented a double CD
that gathers interesting electroacoustic compositions by 32
artistas coming from about ten nations. "Presence II", the title
of this album, represents a magnificient opportunity to reflect
the task that these experimental artists of sound have been
developing in the last years.
More information here:
http://cec.concordia.ca

After five years of silence in releases, the peculiar band
Birdsons of the Mesozoic presents their album "Petrophonics", an
imaginative journey through lost islands somewhere between Rock
and New Music.
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Trajedesaliva is a band that creates bold, fresh music, which
cannot fit any given genre. On a basis containing elements of
Progressive Rock and New Instrumental Music, they experiment with
musical architecture and the poetry of some enigmatic lyrics, yet
at the same time succeeding in providing their compositions with a
great beauty and emotion. In their new CD "Mima" they do indeed
prove this.
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Arto Tuncboyaciyan is a musician of Armenian origin who lived in
Turkey and settled in the USA twenty years ago. Throughout his
career he has travelled the paths between Jazz and World Music,
and has collaborated as a performer with numerous first rate
artists. among them Paul Winter. Now, in his album "Every Day is a
New Life", freshly released by Earth Music Productions, he
condenses all his personal experience in the form of a collection
of ballads that range from his ethnic roots to Jazz, New
Instrumental Music and symphonic classicism.
More information here:
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SOFIA GUBAIDULINA

Composer Sofia Gubaidulina, born in Chistopol, at the Tatar
Republic of the ex-Soviet Union, in 1931, of a Tatar father and a
Russian mother, began her musical studies at the Conservatorium of
Kazan, and later specializes in composition with Nikolai Peiko at
the Conservatoire of Moscow, where she gets her music degrees
under the tutelage of Vissarion Shebalin.

A resident in Moscow until 1992, this same year she moves to the
city of Hamburg, in Germany, where she will settle.

Her work in the field of composition is characterized by the
tactile exploration and improvisation based on the folkloric
elements typical of the Caucasian, Russian and Asian cultures,
using several ritual instruments that the artist has collected
together with the ensemble Astreia, of which she is a co-founder,
with her friends Victor Suslina and Vyacheslav Artyomov, in 1975.

The composer, experimenting with musical tempo and these
instruments, attains sonic responses that up to then had been
unknown to any musicians, in a creativity that takes the best
advantage of all the tools available to it, from the most
traditional to the most avantgarde.

Likewise, this special interest to compose that has taken her to
international recognition, has been stimulated by her particular
personalization and internalization of the Western techniques
typical of the New Music, that the artist has absorbed fast
enough, this being a typical trait of all the composers in her
country and generation, in a post-Stalin era that gave way to
these Western influences in the cultural universe of these
countries. On the other hand, Gubaidulina has a tremendous faith
in the mystic proprieties of music. All this will no doubt be
reflected on her music.

Due to her particular conception of musical creativity, the artist
was not very well regarded by the Soviet musical authorities, even
though several performers supported her music, up to the point
that in the early eighties it would become internationally known
in the Western world, mostly thanks to the efforts that to this
end made Gidon Kreme, with his enthusiastic defense of her violin
concert "Offertorium".

Among her works mention must be made of her several symphonic and
choral pieces, two cello concerts, various string trios and
quartets, several compositions for an ensemble of percussion, and
a considerable amount of works for unusual instruments and
combinations of instruments. In her scores the composer explores
unconventional techniques in the production of diverse sounds.

Since she obtained the permission to travel to the Western
countries in 1985, Sofía Gubaidulina's recognition as a New Music
composer has grown in a spectacular way. After being commissioned
several works from the prestigious Festivals of Berlin, Helsinki,
and Holland, the Congressional Library of the United States, as
well as many other organizations and ensembles all over the world,
in 1991 she participates in the Turin Settembre Musica Festival,
besides her taking part in other events all over Europe, Russia,
Japan, and North America.

Gubaidulina is a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin and
the Freie Akademie der Kunste in Hamburg, among other
associations. Also, she has been awarded the Prix de Monaco
(1987), the Koussevitsky International Record Award (1989; 1994),
the Premio Franco Abbiato (1991), the Heidelberger
Kunstlerinnenpreis (1991), the Russian State Prize (1992), the
SpohrPreis (1995), the Praemium Imperiale (1998) and the Sonning
Prize (1999), among others.

ESSENTIAL WORKS: Orchestra: "Aus dem Stundenbuch" (1991); "And:
The Festivities at Their Height" ("Und: Das Fest ist in vollem
Gang") (1993); "Concert for a Symphonic Orchestra and Jazz Band";
"Figures of Time" (Zeitgestalten) (1994); "Offertorium" (1980-86);
Vocal/choral works: "Halleluya" (1990); Fatseliya (1956); Chamber
and solo instrument(s): "Allegro Rustico" (1963); "Concordanza"
(1971); "De Profundis" (1978) for soloist bayan; Percussion:
"Descensio" (1981); "At the Beginning It Was Rhythm" (1984); "Pari
e dispari" (1991).

(By Montse Andreu)

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MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS 2
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REVIEWS:

EUROCK / VARIOUS:
"EUROCK: THE GOLDEN AGE" (Audio CD / CD-ROM)
Eurock
A marvellous opportunity to access 1500 articles and reviews that
reflect the evolution of the new musics since 1973, the year when
the first issue of the American fanzine "Eurock", until the year
2000. Archie Patterson, the creator of "Eurock",began to publish
this magazine in 1973 as a means to express the new musical trends
that in those times were being shaped in Germany and that would
not take long to become widespread with equal strength on other
countries in Europe as well as the USA. As time went by, the
public interest in these musics grew and Eurock also became a
powerful distributor and even a label. Only by having the
collection of articles and reviews available, the CD already is a
must for whoever wishes to know about the history of the great
legends of electronic music and symphonic rock. Furthermore, the
CD includes video and audio clips that present live performances
by Amon Duul II, Popol Vuh and Urban Sax, little known photos of
charismatic artists, releases, and even forty minutes of music by
Hiro Kawahara, that can be listened to as normal audio tracks from
a standard CD device. To access the CD-ROM section through the
program that enables their readings the requirements are Windows
95 or 98, or Mac OS 8.0.
JORGE MUNNSHE
More information here:
http://www.eurock.com

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KLAUS SCHONNING:
"STARS IN THE NIGHT"
Fonix Musik
Klaus Schonning offers us a masterful album inspired in the
vastness of space. Using a varied range of synthesizers, acoustic
and electric guitars, zithers, accordions, glockenspiel, chimes,
harps, and other percussion and folk instruments, the artist
blends them all together into a relaxing flow of harmonic
melodies, from where music floats dreamily into a voyage through
the starry universe along its 7 tracks. All this, with the usual
mastery displayed by Schonning, whose peculiar style blends form
and rhythm with the flow of inspired electronic effects.In all, a
CD that ranges from Space Music to New Age Music with touches of
New Instrumental Music, apt both for relaxation and meditation,
which takes the listener through a delightful journey into the
Universe, and will no doubt appeal to a wide audience.
MONTSERRAT ANDREU-MARIN

KLAUS SCHONNING
Danish musician Klaus Schonning is one of the best known pioneers
of New Instrumental Music and of New Age Music in Denmark. Born in
1954, his musical talent was precociously revealed. In his
childhood he already played the piano and composed music. His
first album appeared in 1979. In his music, he basically uses
synthesizers, although he also utilizes traditional acoustic
instruments.
Essential recordings:
-LYDGLIMT
-CYCLUS
-NASAVU
-LOCRIAN ARABESQUE
-ARCTIC LIGHT
-SYMPHODYSSE
-SYMPHODYSSE II
-SYMPHODYSSE III
-SYMPHODYSSE IV
-MAGIC CAFE
-ENDLESS CORRIDOR
-COPENHAGEN
-RUNE QUEST
-STARS IN THE NIGHT

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JIM BRICKMAN:
"MY ROMANCE"
Windham Hill Records
In this album, recorded live during the concert the artist offered
at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah, on March, 2000,
Jim Brickman offers us a selection of his most romantic themes.
The fourteen pieces in the CD show Brickman's mastery with the
piano, and some of the tracks include the collaboration of such
artists as Olivia Newton-John, Anne Cochran, Dave Koz, Tracy
Silverman and Donny Osmond.
SIMONETTA VALLI

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ROBIN SPIELBERG:
"DREAMING OF SUMMER"
Playmountain Music
Robin Spielberg offers us twelve themes in this album of piano
solos, released by her own label, Playmountain Music. Drawing her
inspiration from the summer season, her favourite, the artist
paints a delightful soundscape in a masterful way. Each one of the
tracks included in the album reaches the listener with an air full
of emotions, refreshing and brimming with soft textures and
colors, romanticism and hope. Aimed at a wide audience, this CD
will no doubt appeal to the followers of New Instrumental Music
with some minimalist touches, and a few brush-strokes of New
Age/Ambient music.
EMMA DORS.

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BRUNO SANFILIPPO:
"SUITE PATAGONIA"
AD21
Bruno Sanfilippo shapes in music the legends and the European
discovery of Patagonia in this wonderful Suite with ethnic airs
weaving a colorful tapestry with the use of keyboards,
synthesizers, samplers, and native instruments, resulting into a
musical epic where the native viewpoints and the adventure of
Magallanes and other conquerors or explorers, the European
"civilizing" zeal and the indigenous traditions paint a musical
homage to these lands. The seven themes in the CD reflect the
history of the country, together with a bilingual leaflet (Spanish
and English) explaining the history of the conquerors, Magellan's
voyage, the myths and traditions of the natives, and will no doubt
appeal to the followers of New Instrumental Music with ethnic
touches.
ARIADNA MARTIN

JUAN CARLOS GARCIA:
"THE LEGEND OF THE SOLAR ANGELS"
Pulsar Studios
Juan Carlos García dedicates this album to the Solar Angels, who
give him his musical inspiration to create an ethereal, celestial
music, so as to guide the listener to cosmic dimensions of Light
and Love. The seven tracks that are included in this CD constitute
a succession of peaceful, meditative themes, leading to the peace
of mind, relaxation and meditation, in the purest style of New
Age Music with mystic and cosmic touches that will no doubt appeal
to the followers of this musical genre.
ARIELLE MALREAUX.

FERNANDO STRING:
"ESPACIOS SERENOS"
Producciones String
In this album, Fernando String offers us fourteen themes devoted
to relaxation, meditation and personal growth, a very adequate
selection both for sessions in psychotherapy and music therapy, as
well as to enjoy peaceful atmospheres with ambient soundscapes, at
times with cosmic touches, within the New Instrumental and New Age
Music. Ethnic instruments blend with synthesizers and percussion,
flutes or guitars, thus creating beautiful, dreamy melodies, at
times fulkl of emotion, with romantic or rhythmic textures, which
occasionally incorporate natural sounds such as the flow of water.
This CD will no doubt appeal to the followers of this musical
genre.
ARIELLE MALREAUX.

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