Foster Reed launched New Albion Records in 1984’s San Francisco. It was a record label centred on a variety of styles that belonged to pioneering contemporary music, releasing aroud five titles a year. The label was named after what Sir Francis Drake named the San Francisco Bay after being the first European to see the area, which was near where the label was founded. Reed decided to close the label in 2012, after 25 indispensable years. In his goodbye note, Foster Reed wrote: "Our audience has always been artists, musicians, composers, dancers and all those who like to stare out of the windows of perception.” The episode features: Stephen Scott, Ingram Marshall, John Adams, Daniel Lentz, Morton Feldman and Joan La Barbara.