John Lely
Meander Selection
Meander Selection features chamber works by John Lely performed by Apartment House, foregrounding melodic fragments, repetition, gradual change, and the interplay between structure and spontaneity. The album's six tracks move through distinct instrumentations and atmospheres, revealing a composer attuned to understated detail and poised sonic balance.
Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths gathers a distinguished sextet into an evocative session at St James Hatcham Church, South London: John Tilbury (piano), Angharad Davies and Lina Lapelyte (violins, Lapelyte also on voice), Michael Duch (double bass), John Lely (objects, electronics, melodica), and Rhodri Davies (electric harp, melodica). Against a backdrop of rich acoustics, the album presents four pieces - three composed (Sarah Hughes’ "A Reward is Offered," John Lely’s "DawnChorus," Jürg Frey’s "Für sieben" for sep…
The Harmonics of Real Strings
Four realisations of John Lely's simple but brilliant composition 'The Harmonics of Real Strings', which is basically a very slow glissando along the full length of one bowed string. Anton Lukoszevieze plays one realisation on each string of the cello, following the harmonic transformations as they occur and producing an extraordinary example of 'the virtuosity of restraint'. John Lely originally composed the piece in 2006, and it was recorded in April 2014. "When I'm composing I'm learning, ask…
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Matchless Recordings presents a live concert by Yann Charaoui, John Lely and Seymour Wright recorded at Gateway Studios, Kingston-upon-Thames on 2nd August 2000. The album includes four tracks performed by Yann Charaoui - cymbals and table top samplers, John Lely - piano and prepared bal-bal tarang, Seymour Wright - alto saxophone.
"The new austerity on the first CD from the young exponents of the growing art of improvisation...in the year 2000, this approach in which traditional musical instrum…