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We are excited to announce that DRAM now offers improved search capability. 

DRAM is delighted to announce the availability of twenty newly digitized LPs from the CRI label, the initial batch of approximately 400 CRI LPs that we will be making available over the coming months.

DRAM is pleased to welcome Einstein Records to its collection, documenting the early incubation period of the New York Downtown scene.

DRAM is pleased to announce its partnership with Firehouse 12 Records, a label quickly becoming recognized as a leader in cutting edge jazz and creative music.

Featuring the radical and minimal compositions of Austrian composer and trombonist, Radu Malfatti, DRAM is pleased to welcome b-boim records.

We are delighted to announce the addition of four labels to the DRAM database: Porter Records of Florida; Peacock Recordings and Skirl Records, both of Brooklyn, New York; and BMOP/sound, the label of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. A brief description of each label follows below.

DRAM is pleased to announce the inclusion of its first complete musical archive; that of composer and electronic music pioneer, Jon Appleton.  Through an agreement with Dartmouth College, DRAM has been granted exclusive access to this important body of work and is proud to make it accessible to its subscribers and their constituents.

Two albums from DRAM partner Cedille Records have received special recognition for their quality.

Renowned Times music critic Allan Kozinn selected Cedille Record #108 Oppens plays Carter as one of the year's most strongly recommended classical releases, offering the highest praise to pianist Ursula Oppens for her interpretation of Elliott Carter's solo piano works in honor of the centenary of Carter's birth.

by Adam Shanley

Music has been written for the orchestra in recent times that could rival any of the old standby “classics” of the Romantic Era, which predominate the programs of orchestras around the country. Concert bills are filled with the same canon of classical works from the 19th century and earlier. With good reason these works continue to show up in programs--they are great works of art, cultural milestones of the evolution of Western music. However, I do not believe this evolution stopped with Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. In recent times, numerous works for orchestra have been produced that are often overlooked.

Contributed by Chris McIntyre

Throughout the 1970's, the avant garde music community in New York City experienced a uniquely fecund period of aesthetic, cultural, and technological discovery. Conceptual and interdisciplinary work developed during the 1960's led to several strains of activity, all of which were manifest in or near the area in Lower Manhattan known as SoHo (a neologism meaning "South of Houston"). This playlist addresses two distinct yet overlapping areas of work prevalent within the so-called "SoHo Scene": Minimalism (of the drone, static variety) and Conceptualism.