“As Sir Francis Drake, noted explorer and pirate, discovered California for the Elizabethan world, New Albion discovers new musical territories for the modern world. Then as now there are savages, pagans, exotic flora and fauna.
“New Albion resembles a small ship on the ocean, a small press or an art gallery; we employ the ancient art of blind navigation. With composers and performers we develop, record and release about a dozen titles a year, always looking for works that are jewel-like objects of curiosity, beauty and wonder.
“The kind of music we are seeking is central to our post-classical century: borders have widened; the electronic and digital revolutions have shrunk time and space so that streams of influence comingle the medieval with the modern, the primitive with the cosmopolitan, and the search through it all is for music that leads an aware listener into the living moment.
“Our logo is the triangle and the spiral, a compound symbol of strength and motion, of pitch and time, of being here and going there…it has virtually no meaning. Once we decided to create an imaginary roadsign which we painted and drove to Rte. 50 in the middle of Nevada. There it became our postcard, our place in time, where our ship moors between passages.
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