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Markus Eichenberger & Christoph Gallio: Unison Polyphony
by John Eyles
Unison Polyphony features two renowned Swiss players, Markus Eichenberger on clarinet and Christoph Gallio on saxophones. Considering that both were born in 1957 and first played together in the '80s, it is somewhat surprising that this is their first recording together. However, given the instruments they play, it is less surprising as duos of reed instruments ...
Dominic Lash / Pat Thomas: New Oxford Brevity
by John Eyles
Although Dominic Lash and Pat Thomas are frequent visitors to London and regularly gig there in a variety of contexts, for each of them Oxford seems a greater attraction than the capital, even though Lash now lives in Bristol rather than Oxford where he studied. The two first played together—Lash on bass guitar, Thomas on piano—on ...
Olie Brice Trio / Octet: Fire Hills
by John Eyles
This two-CD Olie Brice release features very different discs--one featuring five tracks, which total forty-five minutes, by the trio of Brice on double bass plus Tom Challenger on tenor sax and Will Glaser on drums, while the other has three tracks, totalling forty-eight-and-a-half minutes, by an octet comprising Brice and drummer Johnny Hunter plus two trumpets ...
Germaine Sijstermans: Betula
by John Eyles
Given that past albums on the Elsewhere label have already featured such Wandelweiser favourites as Dante Boon, Jürg Frey, Anastassis Philippakopoulos, Michael Pisaro-Liu, Stefan Thut and Guy Vandromme, it was no surprise when the label released Betula, the debut album from Dutch composer and clarinetist Germaine Sijstermans. Her track “M" had already appeared on the album ...
Magnus Granberg: Night Will Fade and Fall Apart
by John Eyles
Commissioned by Sweden's Thanatosis in December 2020, and written for the six-member Tya Ensemble in 2021, Magnus Granberg's composition "Night Will Fade and Fall Apart" was inspired by two older pieces, like some of his past compositions. So, the new composition's rhythmic materials were extracted from "Tres gentil cuer" and "En l'amoureux vergier" by ...
John Cage: Hymnkus, Thoreau Drawings, Two
by John Eyles
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 ...
Lucio Capece, Katie Porter: Phase to Phase
by John Eyles
It seems highly likely that the Covid lockdown period will be remembered for the many recordings created because of it, made by musicians collaborating from afar, each confined but able to communicate and swap music using the internet. A range of such recordings has already been released, with a steady trickle still emerging. One such is ...
Noisy Women Return at Cafe Oto, London
by John Eyles
Noisy Women Return Cafe Oto London July 17, 2022 The title given to this Cafe Oto concert—Noisy Women Return—probably prompted the same response from many of those who attended: Return? They've never been away! However, the key to understanding that title probably lay two days before; Friday July 15th had seen ...
Iris Ederer, NO Moore, Eddie Prévost: Traktor
by John Eyles
Recorded live at Iklectik Arts Lab in London, during the summer of 2021, Traktor features a trio of players who know one another from the Friday evenings they shared at Eddie Prévost's weekly improvisation workshop which has been running since 1999. Prévost himself plays percussion, NO Moore (Nathan to his friends) plays electric guitar plus pedals, ...
New Reinier van Houdt on Elsewhere
by John Eyles
When is a double album not a double album? That question is raised by the latest pair of Elsewhere releases from the Rotterdam-based composer and pianist Reinier van Houdt. The two come in separate sleeves, have different, unconnected titles, different cover art and were recorded months apart, although they both feature van Houdt alone. The two ...
