Tim Parkinson

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 only piece conceived of first and foremost as an album." The rationale seems to be that Parkinson is primarily a composer and a performer ...