Three New Releases from Important Records

Important Records releases three albums simultaneously in April 2026, all shipping April 17.

Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch, Doug Van Nort – Triple Point (CD/digital, Important Records). Triple Point’s musical interaction was centered around an interplay between acoustics, physically-modeled acoustics (V-accordion), and electronics; Van Nort captured the sound of the other players on-the-fly, either transforming them in the moment to create blended textures or new sonic gestures or holding them for return in the near future. Recorded during a week-long residency at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, NY, August 2012.

Pauline Oliveros, Miya Masaoka, Issui Minegishi – Two Days In Dreamland (2CD/digital, Important Records). These stunning recordings combine the great strengths of Pauline Oliveros on her Roland V-Accordion, Issui Minegishi — Ichigenkin master and great-great granddaughter of the founder of the Seikyodo Ichigenkin tradition — and Miya Masaoka on her 21-string Japanese koto; together, these masterful improvisors create a beautiful and fascinating world of instrumental communication. The double CD preserves the original session edits chronologically in order to preserve the emotional flow of the recordings, with disc one presenting the first day of sessions and disc two presenting the second.

Analog Tara – Life Of The Mother (ltd. cassette/digital, Important Records). Life of the Mother is a sonic meditation on the depth, expansiveness, complexity, and power that this phrase holds, made from layers of generative processes and interactions with them. Analog Tara uses a Zillion sequencer and Xone mixer as system guides, and sounds of the ARP 2500, Jealous Heart, Access Virus, Oberheim OB-6, Jomox XBase, Moog DFAM, and more to create a compelling electronic narrative. The cassette edition is limited to 100 copies.

Waxed in the final set of reeds! It's a squeaky-high bass-side voice that is attached directly to the body of the instrument, not a removable block. I didn't know that was a thing.

When I first opened the instrument up, one of these was completely missing. Thanks, previous-amateur-repairer! Got a replacement from Accordion Re.Store - they were very helpful finding the right reeds, too.

Next stop: replacement bellows gasket and seeing if the bellows is full of holes. Then: DOES IT ACCORDION?!?

#accordion

Vesko Eshkenazi (violin)
Veronika Todorova (accordion)
Philharmonic orchestra of the city of Pleven, Bulgaria
(open air concert; time offset: 55:15)

Queen of the Night (Mozart)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Mercury)

Introducing the first one, the violinist says he asked for this arrangement as he couldn't sing an air for a soprano himself, and if he would, the audience wouldn't want to hear it.
He introduces the second one as a bow before an eternal part of the World of Music.

<https://youtu.be/ktAatpkBqG8?t=3315>

#Accordion
#FridayMusic