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GENRE: Classical, Modern, Piano, Experimental

Label: Pandafuzz
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 01:17:09
Erich Steiger floated into my purview during a hazy period and almost as quickly as he appeared...I was gone. Moving just down the way but into a whole different scene and having different experiences. As time began to strip away the refuse from our lives Erich's creative contributions and intentions became more and more clear. Mr. Steiger's growing expertise lies in his ability to survive the stripping away of excess and to emerge clear and intoxicating through the distillation of audio. Whether it be culling through hours of improvisation for those gems and then polishing them up or taking a finished product and proving it is not quite done yet by adding subtle but astonishing final touches...it is this distillation process I keep finding Erich through.
Erich's name has cropped up recently on many recording sessions and concert recordings happening at the 2640 space in Baltimore, MD. He keeps himself pretty busy these days doing mastering and recording for a variety of different projects as well as his own trio HMS. However he found some moments to send over this mysterious work he calls Avant Forte. An absolutely massive collection of 34 tracks documenting piano improvisation. Recorded under the radar and without authorization at facilities at a local college these recordings find Mr. Steiger feeling right at home. The tension I expected to hear given the recording environment are nowhere to be found, in fact he must have taken his time just given the sheer number of these tracks!
My suggestion for how to digest such a lengthy collection is to just suck it up....Stop living your life so quickly and take the time...I don't care if you have to put it on your damn ipod and listen to it on your useless subway ride...bring this thing into your life.
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GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Classical, Ethno

Label: ParaLucid
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:21:43

LeVant is an electro-ambient project by George D. Stanciulescu, known as the mastermind behind the dark neoclassical act Ad Ombra. Levant's music uniquely oscillates between the aesthetics of refined electronica, classy orchestral touches, ethereal, ethnic and sacred music infusions, catchy uptempo beats, fantastic guitar work, all wrapped in an one of a kind atmospheric perfume. LeVant's debut album, "Beyond the masque of Eden" will be released at the end of 2010 on Dead Scarlet Records.

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GENRE: Post-Rock, Classical, Piano, Ambient

Label: Mini
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:19:37

Eurasia. is the project of a 20 years-old Japanese boy who his inspired by the bucolic countryside in the city of Wakayama. The 4 songs that make the debut of Eurasia. in MiMi grow in-between the ambiences and the keys of a piano with classical melodies. Akira, fictitious name behind Eurasia., is an anti-hero. Assume the lack of theory and technique in his compositions, but, in the end, he makes the music that he wants to hear. "The end of the autumn" is the song closest to what is called post-rock, is also the composition where the piano has a greater role than ambience layers that rise by the end of an EP that seems have in the autumn a good ally. The coordinates that surround the ambient and the post-rock are brought by Eurasia. on another release with the stamp of MiMi.Diogo Santos

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GENRE: Classical, Piano, Orchestral, Ambient

Label: Soft Phase
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:36:10

“Norwegian artist Coax, who has previously released on the Kahvi and Monotonik netlabels, returns with his second album on Soft Phase. “From The Endless Auburn” is a thrilling, evocative, emotional journey. Coax has crafted a cinematic masterpiece, blending a full orchestra, delicate piano, and tumbling synths to light up the mind’s eye. His music has a raw, poignant beauty that sinks down into the heart. Majestic strings, dark thundering brass, and bombastic percussion swell into dazzling vistas full of fiery arcs as planet and sun collide. Yet Coax shows us another side of the world: contemplative, enchanting, intertwined piano melodies, shimmering harps, ethereal choirs, and sparkling bits of diamond dust scattered through the cosmos. It’s rich, moving audio imagery: quiet lost forests, the grand tumult of pitched battle, and autumn sunsets blending with swirling nebulae.” — Joshua Saddler Available in FLAC!

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GENRE: Jazz, Classical, Improvisation

Label: AWM Recordings
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 1:00:49

Zeptosound are inspired by the transition from order to chaos, by the world being regular and known yet simultaneously deeply strange. Other people say we're classical, or new-age, or jazz/improvisational, but we don't really know. What we do know is that we like improvisation and randomness in our music and often feel we are on the edge of reaching something but the closer we get the further this something retreats into the darkness or the light. If we go too far towards it we'll kill it.
There are four of us, with varying ages, phobias and abilities, but mainly it's just one of us. This one was in other bands. Two of us work on particle accelerators and make field recordings inside them late at night when no-one's watching: the sounds at the start of the track Voltage are an accelerator in pain. Three of us are grown-ups. Four of us are human, and we call ourselves zeptosound. We like being zeptosound.

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