Results for "Another Timbre"

Judith Hamann: Days Collapse

By JOHN EYLES

Judith Hamann's Days Collapse is the second of Another Timbre's four “quarantine commissions," following hard on the heels of Repetition of the Same Dream (Another Timbre, 2020) by Clara de Asís & Mara Winter. Hamann is an Australian-born, Berlin-based cellist and composer who holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from University California San Diego, where she ...

Let Pass My Weary Guiltless Ghost

By MAGNUS GRANBERG

Label: Another Timbre
Released: 2020
Track listing: Let Pass My Weary Guiltless Ghost (2019)

Chamber Works

Label: Another Timbre
Released: 2020
Track listing: A Quartet for Francois Morellet (2012); A Quartet for Chris Beekman (2017); A Quartet for Palladio (1998); Five Palindromes (1997); The Donald Judd Harmonies I-XXIII (2016).

Iteration

Label: Another Timbre
Released: 2020
Track listing: Part I; Part II.

Days Collapse

By JUDITH HAMANN

Label: Another Timbre
Released: 2020
Track listing: days collapse days; as with covering wings; become shut, draw together; collapse night.

Ricercar nell’ombra

Label: Another Timbre
Released: 2020
Track listing: Ricercar nell’ombra (vuoto, energia, rilievo).

Lucio Capece & Werner Dafeldecker: Iteration

By JOHN EYLES

When the Another Timbre label was set up in 2006-7, its releases were intended to be a balance between modern composition and free improv. Over time, that intention shifted gradually so that the majority of the label's more recent releases have been modern composition. Of course, the distinction between composition and improvisation is not watertight, as ...

Two "Unusual" releases on Another Timbre

By JOHN EYLES

In Another Timbre's brief notes about the label's autumn 2020 releases, two of the five album descriptions included the word “unusual," the first time that this has occurred. Monument of Diamonds is described as “using an unusual 17-tone scale developed by Erv Wilson." That is followed by the blurb for Good Day Good Day Bad Day ...

Two contrasting Covid-19 recordings from Switzerland

By JOHN EYLES

The chaos brought about by the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown hit the livelihoods of most musicians, causing real hardship, difficulties and anxiety for many. The Another Timbre label took action to assist them in several practical ways; it distributed over £3,000 from sales during the pandemic to many musicians whose work it released; in conjunction with other ...

Magnus Granberg: Let Pass My Weary Guiltless Ghost

By JOHN EYLES

Some eight years after his Another Timbre debut, Ist Gefallen In Der Schnee (2012), the good news for followers of Swedish composer-performer Marcus Granberg is that Let Pass My Weary Guiltless Ghost--his ninth release on the label in as many years--is one of his best yet. Further good news is that this album features a ten-member ...