Charles Duvelle / Hisham Mayet - The Photographs of Charles Duvelle: Disques Ocora and Collection ProphetDisques Ocora, a French label dedicated to capturing and publishing the sounds of folkloric culture from around the world, is held in the highest possible regard in the realms of professional and amateur ethnomusicology. Instigated in 1958 by Pierre Schaeffer, the founder of musique concrte, Disques Ocora's sterling reputation is largely built on composer and musicologist Charles Duvelle's pioneering field recordings, as well as his now iconic

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which six years after his original 1972 version provided the singer with his international breakthrough

Webber researched and analyzed various percussion compositions by Iannis Xenakis

Lana Johns - 20th Century Czech Music for Flute & Piano

each of the pieces presents as a mini-suite

ROY / WHEN A GUITAR PLAYS THE BLUES - Originally released in 1985

Andre Jolivet wrote for the flute throughout his entire compositional career

this is dance music for the mind

adding fresh musical possibilities

and 6 on what is now the twelfth volume of an extraordinary quartet cycle

Each song collection is strikingly different from the next

while exuding an impression of quasi-abstract sonic architecture