Results for "Apartment House"

Apartment House

Clear and Hazy Moons

Label: Another Timbre
Released: 2023
Track listing: Oasis; Billowing; Clear and Hazy Moons; Anatomy of Joy.

Eden Lonsdale: Clear and Hazy Moons

by Marat Ingeldeev
March 7, 2023

It is always great to see well-established record labels boldly promoting new names for listeners to enjoy, as was the case when the UK-based Another Timbre released Marco Baldini's debut CD Vesperi in February 2023 (reviewed previously). Luckily for us, that was not the only new name to many on that batch of releases: Eden Lonsdale's ...

John Cage: Hymnkus, Thoreau Drawings, Two

by John Eyles
August 19, 2022

Another Timbre recordings featuring music by John Cage are into double figures and those featuring Apartment House now number thirty-something, so there was a certain inevitability about this album on which Apartment House perform three Cage pieces. It does not seem long since the label's box set of Apartment House playing some of Cage's number pieces ...

Apartment House: John Cage Number Pieces

by John Eyles
September 27, 2021

Even though it is only based on two of the label's previous releases—Wandelweiser und so weiter (2012) and Morton Feldman Piano (2019)— the reputation of Another Timbre box sets is enviably high. The music they contain, their sound quality, information, artwork and packaging all contribute to the fact that these albums are highly rated and sell ...

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 ...

Jim O’Rourke: Best that you do this for me

by John Eyles
March 2, 2021

Yes, that is the same Jim O'Rourke who was once a member of Sonic Youth, and was responsible for the awesome Nic Roeg tetralogy of albums on Drag City, among other milestones. One such achievement was that O'Rourke played for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for four years; as luck would have it, Apartment House founder ...

Four releases on Another Timbre from a "wonderfully fertile grey area"

by John Eyles
April 25, 2019

Just after he had launched his Another Timbre label, in late 2007, Simon Reynell said, “I've been a fan of contemporary music since my late teens. I first got into it through the classical end— Stockhausen, Nono, Berio, Cage—but soon discovered free improvisation. I was always more drawn to improvisation which, to my ears at least, ...

Joseph Kudirka: Beauty and Industry

By Apartment House

Label: Another Timbre
Released: 2016
Track listing: Tender; Beauty and Industry; Two Sections; 21st Century Music; Wyoming Snow; An Orchestral Fantasy; Beauty and Industry second version; Grey; Two Sections second version; Dulcimer; Two Sections third version; Beauty and Industry third version; Tender second version; Wyoming Snow second version.

Apartment House: Joseph Kudirka: Beauty and Industry

by John Eyles
March 9, 2016

Joseph Kudirka is a Michigan-born composer who studied at Northwestern University--where he met Michael Pisaro who was teaching there at the time--before following Pisaro to California Institute of the Arts, and then crossing the Atlantic to study for his PhD at Huddersfield University. Prior to composing, Kudirka's own musical history was as a bassist in local ...