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Music Farther Outside by Bill Shoemaker

by Jeff Schwartz
September 10, 2023

Music Farther Outside: Experimental Music During Brexit and the Pandemic Bill Shoemaker 213 Pages ISBN: #9781538178775 Rowman & Littlefield 2023 Music Farther Outside is a sequel to two books. First, it is Bill Shoemaker's follow-up to his excellent Jazz in the 1970s: Diverging Streams (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). Both ...

Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet

by John Eyles
December 14, 2021

It seems almost inevitable that the five-star, five-disc box set Morton Feldman Piano (Another Timbre, 2019), by Apartment House pianist Philip Thomas, should overshadow Feldman releases on Another Timbre and other labels, not least because of its six-hour duration and Thomas' exquisite performances. However, as the Another Timbre catalogue reveals, there is far more to Feldman ...

Explore Ensemble debut on Another Timbre

by John Eyles
July 7, 2021

For some time, Apartment House (or prominent members such as Anton Lukoszevieze, Mira Benjamin or Philip Thomas) have featured on the lion's share of Another Timbre releases to the extent that the ensemble could almost be considered the label's house band; given the high quality of Apartment House's players and their playing, that has been good ...

Tim Parkinson: Pleasure Island

by John Eyles
July 28, 2019

Tim Parkinson has been composing since 1994 and has a discography including a couple of highly-regarded Wandelweiser albums featuring two piano pieces from 2006 and 2007, played by Philip Thomas, and a twelve-part cello piece from 2004, played by Stefan Thut. But the LP Pleasure Island is said by the recording company Slip to be “his ...

Circles and Landscapes

By Philip Thomas

Label: Another Timbre
Released: 2016
Track listing: In Memoriam Cornelius Cardew (1993); Circular Music No. 5 (2011/2012); Extended Circular Music No. 2 (2014); Pianist, Alone (2) (2010/2012); Miniature in Five Parts (2014); Extended Circular Music No. 9 (2014/2015).

Philip Thomas / Jürg Frey: Circles and Landscapes

by John Eyles
March 16, 2016

When the Swiss clarinetist and composer Jürg Frey was celebrated as Composer in Residence at the 2015 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, pianist Philip Thomas wrote of him, “Jürg Frey the composer is inseparable from Jürg Frey the composer. To understand his music is to know that underlying each event, each phrase, each rest, each relationship, is ...

New Compositions From Huddersfield On Another Timbre

by John Eyles
January 19, 2014

Soon after Another Timbre was inaugurated in autumn 2007, its proprietor Simon Reynell said, “My interest in contemporary classical music has continued alongside my passion for improv, so I was very clear that I wanted Another Timbre to cover both areas. However I soon discovered that most classical music is prohibitively expensive to bring to disc, ...