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About Me

As Sir Francis Drake, the Elizabethan explorer and pirate, discovered California, New Albion searches for new musical territories. Like a small ship on the ocean, a small press or art gallery; we are blind navigators. With composers and performers we develop, record and release about six titles a year. Our logo is the triangle and the spiral, a compound symbol of strength and motion, of pitch and time, of being here and going there... Once we created an imaginary road sign that we painted and drove to Rte. 50 in the middle of Nevada. There it became our postcard, our place, our mooring.

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Member Since: 04/09/2006
Band Website: www.newalbion.com
Band Members: Foster Reed, Tricia Skennion-Reed, Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio, John Abercrombie, John Adams, John Luther Adams, Alexander String Quartet, Javier Alvarez, Louis Andriessen, Arawi, David Arden, Batak, Etty Ben-Zaken, Luciano Berio, Ray Brooks, Anthony Braxton, Chris Brown, Earle Brown, Hal Budd, Linda Burman-Hall, John Cage, Sarah Cahill, California EAR Unit, Cornelius Cardew, Enrico Caruso, Djamchid Chemirani, Chen Yi, Johannes Ciconia, Continuum, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Ruth Crawford, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Alvin Curran, Stuart Dempster, Da Capo Chamber Players, Charles Dodge, Double Edge, Paul Dresher, Stephen Drury, Ensemble PAN, Ulises Espaillat, Morton Feldman, Lukas Foss, Miguel Frasconi, Ellen Fullman, Bernard Gann, Kyle Gann, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Peter Garland, Ge Gan-Ru, Janice Giteck, Mel Graves, Carlos Guastavino, Lou Harrison, Michael Harrison, Erdem Helvacioglu, Sarah Hopkins, Frank Su Huang, David Hykes, Joan Jeanrenaud, Aaron Jay Kernis, Carson Kievman, Komitas, Joseph Kubera, Robert Kyr, Joan La Barbara, Steve Lacy, Paul Lansky, Daniel Lentz, Peter Scott Lewis, George Marsh, Ingram Marshall, Frank Martin, Sasha Matson, Oliver Messiaen, Yvar Mikhashoff, Christoph Maria Moosmann, Ira J. Mowitz, New Performance Group, Pauline Oliveros, Panaiotis, Arvo Part, Astor Piazzolla, Quartett, Maurice Ravel, Steve Reich, Silvestre Revueltas, Gyan Riley, Terry Riley, Jeffrey Roden, Rova, Rudy Rucker, Frederic Rzewski, Michael Sahl, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players,Somei Satoh, Giacinto Scelsi, Marianne Schuppe, The Shanghai Quartet, Slow Six, Stephen Scott, Dmitri Shostakovich, Roberto Sierra, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Carl Stone, Morton Subotnick, Margaret Leng Tan, Aki Takahashi, David Tanenbaum, Richard Teitelbaum, Tonino Tesei, Third Angle New Music Ensemble, Virgil Thomson, Threnody Ensemble, Sir Michael Tippett, Reza Vali, Stephen Vitiello, Roy Whelden, William Winant, Kathryn Woodard, Zeitgeist, Mattias Ziegler
Influences: Debussy, Cowell, Cage, Feldman, Harrison, Satie
Record Label: New Albion Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Albion Festival

0808 NEW ALBION AT SUMMERSCAPE: A FESTIVAL WITHIN A FESTIVALVoice of West Coast New Music Finds Home at Bard SummerScape's Celebrated Spiegeltent from August 110Programs Include Works by John Adams, ...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:59:00 GMT

Straight outta Hudson

608 Warren St, Hudson NY The New Albion StoreThose of us who have been paying careful attention over the past ten years have noticed that the record store is extinct.The corner store where there was...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:54:00 GMT

NEW RELEASES ON NEW ALBION RECORDS

Stephen ScottThe Deep SpacesNA132The Bowed Piano EnsembleVictoria Hansen, sopranoThe Deep Spaces, the most recent in my series of bowed piano compositions, is a fantasy song-cycle celebrating the powe...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:07:00 GMT

Fan Mail

Are you always this stupid?Are you always this rude?You are truly a sorry excuse because composers who donot match the academic junk you pump out make youjealous and angry.How sad, and pathetic.You ne...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:11:00 GMT

Reality Sandwich

The decomposition of Tower is a sad affair. My first thought about its collapse was a kind of sigh of revenge, followed by a few crocodile tears. There were some exceptionally nice, competent and pas...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:25:00 GMT

Who (we are becoming) and What (we have in store)

9/7/6Hi. Thanks for showing up ! We are pleased to be here, and to meet you as well. For about 25 years New Albion Records was in San Francisco, and a year ago we moved to the Hudson Valley about 100 ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:35:00 GMT