Neuma records

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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As well on the NEUMA records label, some rare material by Harry Partch as "The bewitched" & "US Hignball" recorded in 1946. Also works by Pauline Oliveros, Luigi Nono, Frederic Rzewski, David Tudor and many, many other composers.