Results for "Jurg Frey"

Elsewhere Piano Series No. 2

by John Eyles
October 31, 2020

When Elsewhere released its three-album Piano Series No.1 in the summer of 2019, the All About Jazz review of it concluded as follows,"This Piano Series consists of three distinctively different recordings, any one of which would have attracted attention and plaudits in its own right. It is a measure of the quality of the series that ...

Jürg Frey

Early to Late

By Jürg Frey

Label: Another Timbre
Released: 2018
Track listing: How Vain Are All Our Frail Delights?; Late Silence.

New releases from Jürg Frey, Clara de Asis and Stefan Thut

by John Eyles
December 7, 2018

If you were told that a record label's latest batch of three albums were by Jürg Frey, Clara de Asis and Stefan Thut, and then asked to identify the label, which one would you be most likely to choose? Many in-the-know music fans might be likely to opt for Another Timbre or maybe Wandelweiser or INSUB, ...

Jurg Frey & Magnus Granberg: Early to Late

by John Eyles
March 29, 2018

Jürg Frey and Magnus Granberg are two of the musicians who feature most frequently in the Another Timbre catalogue. So, when the label commissioned two new works in 2015, it was no surprise that they were the chosen composers. Performed by Ensemble Grizzana, including a stellar line-up of AT regulars alongside Frey and Granberg themselves, the ...

Clarinet (& Piano)

By Jürg Frey

Label: Another Timbre
Released: 2017
Track listing: O’Hare; 3x ; Wolken/veld.

Cristián Alvear, Seijiro Murayama: Karoujite

by John Eyles
June 21, 2017

Before coming together in this duo, the Chilean acoustic guitarist Cristián Alvear and the Japanese percussionist Seijiro Murayama were both well-established Potlatch artists. Alvear has built a reputation as a performer of compositions by Wandelweiser members such as Jürg Frey and Antoine Beuger, as exemplified by his fine album of Michael Pisaro pieces Melody, Silence (Potlatch, ...

Dante Boon / Jürg Frey: Clarinet (& Piano)

by John Eyles
February 8, 2017

Without doing an actual count of how many Another Timbre releases feature members of the Wandelweiser group, it is safe to say that they crop up regularly on the label both as composers and performers, with such names as Jürg Frey, Radu Malfatti, Michael Pisaro, Johnny Chang and Eva Maria Houben peppering the label's credits--not just ...

Another Timbre reaches its century in top form

by John Eyles
August 4, 2015

Another Timbre's three latest releases bring up a significant landmark in the label's brief history. Since the label released its first CD in the autumn of 2007, it has now put out over 100 discs—at a rate of more than one a month. Lest anyone wishes to point out that the latest release—the James Saunders disc, ...