Starkland: New Experimental Music on CD and surround sound DVD

What's New:

Leading new-music composer Phil Kline debuts a major work, Around the World in a Daze, on a new surround sound DVD released by Starkland. The 65-minute studio composition was commissioned by Starkland specifically for high-resolution surround sound and to premiere on DVD.

Recent reviews in over a dozen publications such as The New York Times, Stereophile, and New York Magazine have called this DVD "sensational... ear-opening adventures... extraordinary" and much more.

One of Starkland’s most ambitious projects, this DVD offers wondrous boombox choirs, an ethereal Ethel quartet, a weird madrigal, hundreds of thousands of hyper-dense bells, richly mournful multi-tracked vocals, soaring violinistics from Todd Reynolds, and an immersive environment of 15,000 African gray parrots.

The custom‑designed double digipak includes an Extras disc with a composer-produced music video, a 34-minute interview with Kline and John Schaefer, as well as a 24-page booklet.

Starkland releases engaging, compelling recordings of experimental, avant-garde, electroacoustic, organized sound, musique concrete, alternative classical, new music.

Starkland's Catalog features music from Charles Amirkhanian, Phillip Bimstein, Jay Cloidt, Tod Dockstader, Paul Dolden, Paul Dresher, William Duckworth, Robert Een, Fred Frith, Ellen Fullman, Lars Hollmer, Aaron Jay Kernis, Jerome Kitzke, Roger Kleier, Phil Kline, Guy Klucevsek, Lukas Ligeti, Ingram Marshall, Merzbow, Meredith Monk, Bruce Odland, Pauline Oliveros, Maggi Payne, Somei Satoh, Carl Stone, Lois V Vierk, Pamela Z, and John Zorn.

The Kronos Quartet, Ethel Quartet, Turtle Island String Quartet, Paul Dresher Ensemble, Modern Mandolin Quartet, and Todd Reynolds are some of the musicians on Starkland's releases.