While one could argue that the New Year is simply an arbitrary date, for some it does offer an opportunity to lift one’s head out of the currents of everyday activity and recalibrate. With the start of a new year and a new decade for the company, PARMA is taking some time to look back... Continue Reading →
Matthew Burtner is an Alaskan-born composer, sound artist, and eco-acoustician, whose music and research explores embodiment, climate change, polymetrics, and noise. First Prize winner of the Musica Nova International competition and an IDEA Award winner, Matthew’s music has also received honors and prizes from Bourges (France), Gaudeamus (Netherlands), Darmstadt (Germany), and The Russolo (Italy) international competitions.... Continue Reading →
For many, January is synonymous with new beginnings. As a fresh new year commences, we are inspired by new goals, resolutions, and a drive to make each year better than the last. With that comes the year's first releases from Navona and Ravello Records, featuring an ecoacoustic collection of glacier music, the results of budding... Continue Reading →
With THE JOHN PSATHAS PERCUSSION PROJECT VOL. 1, the creative minds of two figures in contemporary music came together as one for a truly unique collaborative album. Greek New Zealand composer John Psathas has led a highly successful career collaborating with artists around the globe, from projects with jazz legends Michael Brecker and Joshua Redman... Continue Reading →
This inaugural season of PARMA Recordings' China Tours has been a formative experience for all artists involved. Not knowing what to expect from their first time in the nation, each artist came away with their own individual stories. Each story, however, had a few things in common: the warm reception they were met with in... Continue Reading →
Congratulations to our PARMA artists Sang-Hie Lee and Stephen Yip who have just won the Silver Medal at the Global Music Awards for PARMA releases, ARS NOSTRA: BUT NOW THE NIGHT and The Luminous Mystery on TURBULENT SKY. The Global Music Awards is "music's golden seal of approval." For the Silver Medal finalists, only fifteen percent of entries are chosen. We... Continue Reading →
For the annual National Take A Hike Day, we are spotlighting some of our artists who are a bit more daring than most. Christina Rusnak, Stephen Lias, and Sidney Balin head to the mountains, or to the sky...to draw creative inspiration. Check out their stories below. Can you think of anything better than hiking a mountain,... Continue Reading →
