Jazz Articles about Adrián Demoč

About Adrián Demoč

Multiple Reviews

Two return visitors to Another Timbre, performed by Apartment House

by John Eyles
December 1, 2024

One would have to think long and hard to find several similarities between composers Adrian Demoč and Linda Catlin Smith. Of different genders, they were born on different continents in different decades. Their routes to becoming composers differed, yet they both ended up as Another Timbre artists with a respectable selection of album releases on the label and the prospect of more to come. Nonetheless, Demoč and Smith do have similarities; firstly each of them is a talented composer who ...

Album Review

Adrián Demoč: Neha

by John Eyles
June 14, 2023

The last Adrián Demoč album release was Hlaholika (Another Timbre, 2021), featuring the title composition, which was one of Another Timbre's four “quarantine commissions" from different composers, commissioned at the beginning of the Covid 19 lockdown. Recorded in August 2020, that piece was played by five members of Apartment House, presumably because larger ensembles were not allowed due to the virus. In fact, that album's only track featuring six players, “Lešenie k zahĺbeniu" had been recorded in May 2005. Fast ...