Recordings of new and recent music

Charmed by his first experience of a music fair (a convention where closely spaced booths are simultaneously demonstrating different music products), Kagel constructed this 41-minute work, a “kaleidoscope” where “…different situations unexpectedly succeed one another and coexist simultaneously.”

Among the Year’s Best, So Far

Mike Silverton [April 2001. Originally appeared in La Folia 3:3.] Gabriel Valverde: LUMINAR. Mode 94 [KOCH International, US distributor] On those rare occasions, all the more invaluable for being rare, one knows at the outset that he’s on to something