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	PETER GARLAND: ANOTHER SUNRISE Premiere recordings of Garland's Another Sunrise (1995), Dreaming of Immortality in a Thatched Cottage (1977), and I Have Had to Learn the Simplest Things Last (1993). Featuring pianist Aki Takahashi. Available from Mode Records.
	TEN YEARS OF ESSENTIAL MUSIC Live recordings from the first ten years of Essential Music (1987 - 1997). Works by Robert Ashley, Johanna Beyer, Kyle Gann, Peter Garland, Malcolm Goldstein, John Kennedy, Christian Wolff, and Charles Wood. Featuring performances by Guy Klucevsek, Dora Orenstein, Ben Neill, and many more. Available from Monroe Street Music.
	JOHN CAGE: THE LOST WORKS Premiere recordings of three earlier works of Cage's, long thought lost and only recently discovered a few short years before Cage's death. Featured is The City Wears a Slouch Hat from (1942), a radio play to a text by Kenneth Patchen with Paul Schmidt as "The Voice". Also included is Fads and Fancies in the Academy from (1940), and A Chant With Claps (undated, but assumed to be from the late 40's). Available from Mode Records.
	WILLIAM RUSSELL: MADE IN AMERICA The (nearly) complete recordings of the work of this early American experimentalist and contemporary of Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Lou Harrison, including Four Dance Movements, Chicago Sketches, Ogou Badagri, and Made in America. Available from Mode Records.
	SORREL HAYS: DREAMING THE WORLD New work by Sorrel Hays, including her Dreaming The World which was written for, and premiered by, Essential Music and baritone Thomas Buckner. Available from New World Records.
	JOHANNA MAGDELENA BEYER: IV FOR PERCUSSION Johanna Beyer was one of the earliest and most radical of the New York experimentalists (along with Henry Cowell, John Cage, William Russell, et al). Included are two different versions of Beyer's IV for Percussion for indeterminate instrumentation. Available from Nonsequitur as part of their CD magazine, The Aerial #3