The Sirin Vocal Ensemble - Martynov EditionBorn in 1946, Vladimir Martynov is one of several composers from the former USSR whose music taps into a vein of perpetual memory and farewell. Literally so in the case of Der Abschied, an eight movement cycle for small ensemble which stands on the threshold like a guest at a gathering of friends, unable or unwilling to shut the door behind them and venture out alone. One of Martynov's most distinguished contemporaries was the Ukrainian composer

Whole Lotta Ice Feat

Palaver's musicians share artistic and administrative leadership

It is not uncommon for them to be transposed

in some places

While these detours of doctors' appointments and experimental care were taking place

and is an avid chamber music proponent

with the stripped viciousness of Dr Feelgood and Murray Head's regretful address to a derelict and destroyed country

as modest as it may seem to us today

Beware Insects & Spiders: 28 Buzzin' Blaster/ Var - Beware

as a collaboration between the Japanese musicians and the Swedish label BIS Records

and musician

without intellectual ambitions or strong emotions