Innova Archive
The Compassion Project – Edna Michell, Yehudi Menuhin – Innova
An incredible collection of music and musicians centered on the theme of compassion.
Of Radiance and Refraction – NOTUS – Innova
Choral music off power and delicacy
Jane Antonia Cornish – Constellations – Innova
Very moving music that will take you to the cosmos
“Seven Responses” The Crossing/ Donald Nally – Innova/ EDIE HILL: Clay Jug – The Crossing/Donald Nally – Navona
Two new and amazing releases from this wonderful vocal ensemble. “Seven Responses” = CAROLINE SHAW: To the Hands; HANS THOMALLA: I come near you; PELLE GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN: Ad cor; ANNA THORSVALDSDOTTIR: Ad genua/To the knees; DAVID T. LITTLE: dress in magic amulets, dark, from My feet; SANTA RATNIECE: My soul will sink within me; LEWIS SPRATLAN: […]
Maya Beiser, cello – “Transclassical” = Works of BACH, REED, WOLFE, HILDEGARD VON BINGEN & Others – Innova
Maya Beiser, “Transclassical” = J.S. BACH: Air; MICHAEL GORDON: All Vows; IMOGEN HEAP: Hide and Seek; GLENN KOTCHE: Three Parts Wisdom; LOU REED: Heroin; JULIA WOLFE: Emunah; MOHAMMED FAIROUZ: Kol Nidrei; DAVID T. LITTLE: Hellhound; HILDEGARD von BINGEN: O Virtus Sapientae – Maya Beiser, cello, vocal, electronics – Innova 952 [Distr. by Naxos], 65:41, (6/29/16) […]
BORA YOON: “Sunken Cathedral” = O viridissima virga; Father Time; Finite Infinity; In paradisum; Jansori Pansori; O Pastor Animarum; Speratus; Little Box of Horrors; Weights and Balances; Semaphone Conductus; New American Theater; Doppler Dreams – Bora Yoon, artist & composer/others – Innova CD or double-vinyl
No resemblance at all to Debussy’s cathedral – sunken or not.
MASON BATES: “Stereo is King” = Stereo is King; Observer in the Magellanic Cloud; Difficult Bamboo; Terrycloth Troposphere; String Band; White Lies for Lomax – Mason Bates, electronica/Chanticleer/Musicians from the Chicago Sym. Orch./The Claremont Trio/Tania Stavreva, p. – Innova
Very interesting and diverse work kind of hooks you to this name you should know.
CORRINGHAM: Walking – Innova
Not really music; an unusual audio exploration of environments and stories.
“Three-Mountain Pass” – Van-Ank Vanessa Vo, dan tranh/ Kronos Quartet – Innova
Traveling through the mind’s ear.
Chris Campbell / Grant Cutler – Schooldays Over – Innova (45 rpm vinyl)
A 45 rpm 12″ effort, but not necessarily appealing to all audiophiles with good turntables.
Wild Songs = STEVE HEITZEG: Wild Songs; Three Graces for Hildur; Loveblessing; Is Everybody Else Alright?; LORI LAITMAN: Four Emily Dickinson Songs – Polly Butler Cornelius, sop./ Victoria Fischer Faw, piano; Heather Barrington & Patti Cudd, percussion – Innova
Interesting and sometimes very moving music, but far too limited for a debut album.
“Colliding Objects: Music by DAVID KECHLEY” = Dancing; Design and Construction; Untimely Passages; Available Light; Colliding Objects – Innova
Colorful, engaging. David Kechley’s music may not give you a lot to cogitate on, but it is certainly ear-tickling.
ALEXANDER BERNE: ‘Self Referentials, Volumes 1 & 2’ – Alexander Berne & The Abandoned Orchestra– Innova Records – Innova (2 CDs)
Impossible to describe but must hear.
MCLEAN: “Soundworlds” = Concerto: States of Being; Ritual of the Dawn; Demons of the Night; Magic at Zanadu (MAX); Ice Canyons; Rainforest Images II – Barton McLean, keyboards/computer/ Ensemble – Innova
A new music composer strongly into ambient/environmental sounds as well as electronics.
“Final Cut: Film Music for Four Guitars” – The Aquarelle Guitar Quartet – Chandos“Thrum” – Minneapolis Guitar Quartet – Innova
Two terrific guitar quartet CDs at one time!
“One: Chamber Music of Kurt Rohde” – KURT ROHDE: Violin Concertino; One: One; Double Trouble; 4 Remixes – Soloists/Left Coast Ens./ Empyrean Ens. – Innova
Edgy, as expected of Innova releases, but in a chamber music confine, with deep lyricism.
‘The Eleanor Hovda Collection’ = ELEANOR HOVDA: Ariadne Music; Coastal Traces; Sound Around the Sound; Excavations – var. performers – Innova (4 CDs)
A dense organic blend that sounds like New Age meets Stockhausen.
ANNE LEBARON: 1, 2, 4, 3 – Ensemble/ Anne LeBaron, harp etc. – Innova (2 CDs)
There’s a distinct possibility that LeBaron’s improvisations are so abstract, so spontaneous and so solipsistic that they are not music in any traditional sense.
ALEXANDER BERNE: Flickers of Mime – Death of Memes – Innova (2)
Be patient and the listening is hypnotically compelling!
ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR: ‘Rhízōma’ = CAPU Ens., Iceland Sym./ Daniel Bjarnason – Innova
This interesting, complex music requires total concentration at least.
ROBERT MORAN: Trinity Requiem – Innova
Moving, beautiful music from a surprising source.
Prester John: Desire for a Straight Line – Shawn Persinger, acoustic guitar/ David Miller, mandolin – Innova
Boredom will not happen.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
