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Recent CD Releases
Downloads
We offer downloads of all our CDs as either lossless flac, or mp3-320 files.
If you want downloads, please email info(at)anothertimbre.com and we will send you the music. Files cost £5 per disc, or £10 for a double CD.
at99 Angharad Davies & Tisha Mukarji -
‘ffansïon | fancies’
Exquisite improvisations by Angharad Davies on violin and Tisha Mukarji on piano.
“An album to return to time after time, year after year.”
John Eyles, All About Jazz
at96 Bryn Harrison
‘Receiving the Approaching Memory’
Bryn Harrison’s mesmerising composition, played by Aisha Orazbayeva (violin) and Mark Knoop (piano).
“Deft and gossamer music…every moment is alert, agile and ready to take flight” The Guardian
at97 Linda Catlin Smith - ‘Dirt Road’
Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith’s highly acclaimed duo for violin and percussion, played by Mira Benjamin and Simon Limbrick.
“One of those works in whose world you want to live. Music of cold, clear beauty.” Alex Ross
at98 ‘Volume’ by illogical harmonies -
Johnny Chang & Mike Majkowski
A joint composition by two of Berlin’s leading experimental musicians, both members of Konzert Minimal.
“...delicacy, fineness, virtuosity and purity. A great disc.”
Julien Heraud, Improv-Sphere
at94x2 Jürg Frey - guitarist, alone
A double CD with Jürg Frey’s complete works for solo guitar played by Cristián Alvear.
“…beautiful musical material” Julien Heraud, Improv-Sphere
Youtube extract 1 - from ‘50 Sächelchen’
Youtube extract 2 - from ‘guitarist,alone’
at93 Lucio Capece - Awareness about
Four compositions exploring sound through a focus on the processes of listening.
at92 Goldsmiths
An extended group improvisation and compositions by Sarah Hughes, John Lely and Jurg Frey, played by:
Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Michael Duch, John Lely, Lina Lapelyte and John Tilbury
“Another classy release from Another Timbre…Quiet but headspinning.” Clive Bell, The Wire
Youtube extract 1 - Sarah Hughes
at91 Jürg Frey - Circles and Landscapes
Six pieces for solo piano, played by Philip Thomas.
“The mercurial pacing of sound and silence is fully entrancing” Michael Rosenstein, Point of Departure
at90 Klaus Filip & Leonel Kaplan
‘tocando fondo’
Two extended improvisations for trumpet and sinewaves.
“As with all great improvised music, tocando fondo is a conversation rather than a duel” Joseph Burnett, Dusted
at89 Joseph Kudirka - Beauty and Industry
Chamber works played by Apartment House
“Another Timbre has shone the spotlight on a remarkable composer, one who will be worthy of attention for decades” John Eyles, All About Jazz
CD Releases - Violin +1 series click on covers for more details
Out of stock items
We now have fewer than 10 copies left of Bryn Harrison’s ‘Vessels’ (played by Philip Thomas), so if you want a copy, please hurry.
Other CDs that are in stock but running low on copies are:
at37 Michael Pisaro - Fields Have Ears
at12 Sebastian Lexer & Seymour Wright ‘Blasen’
at18 ‘Decentred’
at19 ‘Midhopestones’
at66 Richard Glover - ‘Logical Harmonies’
at80 John Lely - ‘The Harmonics of Real Strings’
and at91 Jürg Frey - ‘Circles and Landscapes’
Reviews
All the ‘Violin+1’ series of CDs have had excellent reviews, plus there have been rather late reviews of some other recent releases.
I’m terrible at keeping track of reviews, but most that I know of are now on the relevant webpages for each disc.
It’s far harder to get considered reviews of experimental music than it used to be, so thanks to all those who continue to support the music with their pens (or keyboards, more likely).
Future releases
There will be a new batch of four CDs in October, including at100, which will be an occasion for wild partying. Details of the new discs coming soon.
Then January 2017 will see the first batch of releases in the Canadian composers’ series - a double CD of chamber music by Linda Catlin Smith, and single discs by Martin Arnold and Isaiah Ceccarelli.
The second batch of Canadian releases is scheduled for April 2017 and will include discs by Chiyoko Szlavnics, Marc Sabat and Cassandra Miller.
Performers in the Canadian composers series include the Bozzini Quartet, Apartment House, the Jack Quartet, Philip Thomas and Mira Benjamin, and the Konus Quartett.
All excellent stuff…
After that, who knows, it’s a long way off. But one project that is definitely happening is the first commissioned pieces funded by Another Timbre. Jürg Frey and Magnus Granberg are currently composing substantial new works for Ensemble Grizzana, which will be premiered in 2017. Both composers have started from two pieces by Renaissance composers, but from that common starting point they worked independently and with different compositional methods. So the end results should be unique.
More on that project as it develops, but you can hear the source compositions here:
William Byrd - O Lord, How Vain are all our Frail Delights
Johannes Ockeghem - Déploration sur la mort de Binchois