DRAM News

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.

The May 12, 2008 issue of The New Yorker features an article on the inimitable composer John Luther Adams, many of whose works are featured in DRAM from the New World, Mode, and Cold Blue labels.

Writer Alex Ross states, "[Adams is] one of the most original musical thinkers of the new century. At the age of fifty-five, he is perhaps the chief standard-bearer of American experimental music, of the tradition of solitary sonic tinkering that began on the West Coast almost a century ago and gained new strength after the Second World War, when John Cage and Morton Feldman created supreme abstractions in musical form.

Click below to access the complete article or to read an excerpt with links to some of Adams' works discussed in the article.

Composer Henry Brant died Saturday, April 26 at his home in Santa Barbara, California. In honor of the life of this extraordinary composer, DRAM highlights his life and works.

Composer and music critic Kyle Gann described Brant as follows. Brant was "a visionary of Ivesian imagination... the leading pioneer of spatial music, music played by ensembles separated by wide distances. If he remains a rather obscure name, it is only because his music...is so difficult to organize and record that few have a chance to experience it."

Click on any of the links below to learn more about Henry Brant or to listen to examples of his music.