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Jürg Frey, Reinier van Houdt: Lieues d’Ombres
by John Eyles
Anyone familiar with the Elsewhere label (or Edition Wandelweiser or Another Timbre...) will have frequently encountered Swiss composer and clarinetist Jürg Frey. In addition, those who regularly listen to Elsewhere will have heard much of Dutch pianist Reinier van Houdt. Between them, Frey and van Houdt have now appeared on six of Elsewhere's twenty-three albums to date. Of those six, L'air, L'instant--deux pianos (2020) is the only previous album to feature the pair on the same album, with van Houdt ...
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by John Eyles
When is a double album not a double album? That question is raised by the latest pair of Elsewhere releases from the Rotterdam-based composer and pianist Reinier van Houdt. The two come in separate sleeves, have different, unconnected titles, different cover art and were recorded months apart, although they both feature van Houdt alone. The two albums have catalogue numbers 021-1 and 021-2 which indicate they are two halves of a double album; Elsewhere's website has a photograph of the ...
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