Neuma Records is an american label for experimental classics, today's musicc, and tomorrow's possibilities, since 1988.
With fresh new publication among which the amazing "Ecstatic visions" by the Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea and the british composer Alistair MacDonald. Stephanie Lamprea
is a sought-after performer of avant-garde works, specializing in
extended vocal techniques and interdisciplinary collaboration. "Ecstatic visions" is a vocal work with electronic climax commissioned
for the Glasgow Cathedral Festival. It forges Lamprea’s voice with the
sound of the cathedral’s great bell and Hildegard von Bingen’s writings
on gemstones and visions, creating a series of kaleidoscopic,
multi-channel illusions.
“At
the heart of this album is the question of where the ‘self’ resides
when the voice—the most embodied instrument—is transformed by
circuitry” Stephanie Lamprea.
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Another new issue from last november is with the violin and composer Richard Carr who activates, with three other musicians on strings and electronics, an interactive
improvisation, creating a lyrical musical conversation that transcends
known boundaries, along with sly nods to Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Charles
Ives. This new opus is titled "August light", a sonic journey blending elements of jazz, minimalism, and experimental music.
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NEUMA label is administrated by the composer, producer, film-maker and writer Philip Blackburn who is releasing some of his works on the label. The last one, titled "Another intensity" is composed for clouds. The six pieces of this work share a sense of nature’s grand procession, revealing moments of wonder
in the spaces between events. It discovers life in the cracks of
perception. The album transports listeners to resonant caves, dense
rainforests, and soundscapes of distant memory—journeying through both
real and imagined places.
“I
have never seen a straight line in nature. Dynamic, balanced chaos is
my friend ... This music is an attempt to let loose
beauty, to make it tactile, and intertwine with our attention. It’s
about practicing the art of noticing the non-empty spaces between
things. Of slowing down enough to appreciate the flow.” Philip Blackburn
and this collective dream journey "Between Here and There"
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