aworks :: "new" american classical music: October 2020

"Los Angeles based composer, guitarist, and artistic director of the wasteLAnd series Nicholas Deyoe writes powerful music that fuses his interests in noise, microtonality, and dramatically expressive structure." Dan Lippel/NEW FOCUS RECORDINGS
"Nicholas Deyoe's they solidify then tilt veered between atmospheric and anxious, inspired by Alison Carter's poem in which she tries to make out the contents of her bedroom in the dark." Peter Matthews/Feast of Music
Recorded by Hypercube but not the Rodrigo Passannanti Hypercube. Peter Thelen/Exposé
Work list. Nicholas Deyoe

2020 Orange Mountain Music
"Welsh guitarist, composer and arranger." Wikipedia
He's also written homage to Philip Glass, John McLaughlin, Arvo Part and Steve Reich. Spotify
Fresh sounding takes of commonly recorded Philip Glass music.
The Dublin Guitar Quartet also has a recording of music by Philip Glass on the Orange Mountain Music label. Spotify

2020 Neue Meister/Edel Germany GmbH
"As he [composer Julius Eastman] stated in a recording contained in Unjust Malaise addressed to an audience in Northwestern University in 1980, the names were meant to elicit a “basicness” that “eschews that thing which is superficial”. In other words, they could be conceived of as a reference to the raw and complex quality of everyday life, as opposed to the abstract intent of a minimalism continually concerned with “big” and “Human” (yes, with capital H) events. Where canonical US minimalists promote coalition around “universal rhythms” (Americanized and taken from African peoples without retribution), Eastman incisively foregrounds difference, a productive and combative distinction that points at the basic intensity of living in a world that tries to suffocate the plurality continually exploding within it." David Murrieta Flores/a closer listen
"Eastman’s uncompromising work and his guerilla struggle for artistic integrity are an acerbic rejection of “new music’s” conservative elite, from which he repeatedly estranged himself." Kai Schumacher/Facebook
"Patricia Martin, who teaches at the same university I do, did the first performance of the two pieces „Gay Guerrilla“ and „Evil Nigger“ 40 years ago together with Julius Eastman himself!" Kai Schumacher/NINU NINA
Recorded live At Moers Festival 2020. Discogs

2020 Brilliant Classics
A repackaging of prior recordings, the album also includes five more hours of works by Erik Satie, Arvo Part, Yann Tiersen and others. He's also recorded the full Piano Etudes, other American minimalism, and various works by Philip Glass.

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