★Another Timbre
Jankélévitch Sextets
Jankélévitch Sextets brings together Antoine Beuger’s reductionist poetics and the responsive intelligence of Apartment House, resulting in a recording defined less by overt drama than by its expansive sense of space and attentive musicianship. Over …
The way to go out
The Way to Go Out offers an absorbing journey through three interconnected pieces by Newton Armstrong, exploring themes of repetition, layering, and shifting musical focus inspired by visual art and landscapes. Performed by the Plus Minus Ensemble al…
Stain Ballads
There is something disarming about the world conjured in Stain Ballads. Martin Arnold creates music for Apartment House that settles into the ear with an air of deceptive simplicity: four extended works - “Lutra,” “Stain Ballad,” “Trousers,” and “Sli…
All English Music is Greensleeves
Five pieces by the radical young Belgian composer, Maya Verlaak, impeccably performed by Apartment House, and the soloists Sarah Saviet (violin) and Mark Knoop (piano)"Subversion has destructive connotations. However, subversion can also mean revers…
Parallel Words
With Parallel Words, Eventless Plot compose as a true collective, crafting an album that drifts at the intersection of chamber music, electroacoustic experimentation, and subtle jazz inflections. The trio - Vasilis Liolios, Aris Giatas, and Yiannis T…
Iteration
Two improvisations from an astonishing Munich performance in May 2019 by the Berlin-based duo of Lucio Capece - bass clarinet, slide saxophone, room acoustics and mini-speakers & Werner Dafeldecker - double bass.
"The two pieces were recorded last ye…
Monument of Diamonds
With Monument of Diamonds, Kraig Grady offers a singular entry in the field of microtonal composition, crafting a sound world as immersive as it is otherworldly. The piece, composed in 2020 and realized for a small orchestra of specially built or ada…
Repetition of the Same Dream
Repetition of the same dream emerged from collaboration under unusual circumstances: during the early Covid-19 lockdown, Clara de Asis and Mara Winter found themselves together in Basel, using both a local church and a midnight tunnel to explore the …
Hyazo
A new album from the trio who released Tse in 2016, and - along with violinist Angharad Davies - Awire in 2018. Three compositions of quiet and delicate beauty, two by Christoph Schiller, and the title track by Cyril Bondi.Cyril Bondi: Indian harmoni…
Antifona
Following on from the wonderful "Cantilena", four new chamber works by the Paris-based Italian composer Giuliano d'Angiolini. Performers include Apartment House, Manuel Zurria, Mark Knoop and the composer.
Let Pass My Weary Guiltless Ghost
Let Pass My Weary Guiltless Ghost marks another chapter in Magnus Granberg’s ongoing exploration of the borderlands between improvisation and quietly radical chamber composition. Granberg draws from his background in saxophone and deep engagement wit…
Fűr Biliana
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler’s Für Biliana unfolds as a quietly powerful study in sustained resonance and tactile silence, brought to life with understated virtuosity by Biliana Voutchkova and her collaborators. Across four compositions - including the epo…
Unfurling
Unfurling introduces a trio where established voices in contemporary experimental music - Angharad Davies, Klaus Lang, and Anton Lukoszevieze - are brought together in an environment shaped as much by deep listening as by compositional foresight. Bor…
Unconscious Collections
Unconscious Collections emerges as a resonant dialogue between Tomás Cabado’s classical guitar and Christoph Schiller’s prepared spinet, both artists known for their work within experimental, microtonal, and Wandelweiser-inspired aesthetics. The albu…
Chordioid
Chordioid documents two distinctive approaches to contemporary chamber music, channeling the shared experience of J.P.A. Falzone and Morgan Evans-Weiler as composer-performers in various experimental contexts. Their collaboration, honed since 2016 in…
Ricercar nell’Ombra
Ricercar nell’Ombra grew out of a collaboration between French composer Emmanuel Holterbach and the seven-member Florence-based ensemble Blutwurst, both devoted to the acoustic investigation of slowly transforming sonic patterns. Conceived during res…
Chamber Works
Luiz Henrique Yudo’s Chamber Works marks an insightful journey into the translation of visual art into sound, presenting music that bridges architecture, painting, and sculpture with contemporary chamber idioms. Brazilian-born and Amsterdam-based, Yu…
The Fish That Became the Sun
Frank Denyer’s The Fish that became the Sun (Songs of the Dispossessed) stands as one of the most ambitious and singular orchestral creations of recent decades. Conceived over several years and premiered over twenty years after completion, this piece…
The Boundaries of Intimacy
British composer Frank Denyer presents seven beautiful chamber works dating from 1974 to 2018, opening a door to his unique soundworld. Released by Another Timbre in November 2019, The Boundaries of Intimacy features sublime, unexpected pieces of del…
Puma Court
Puma Court stands as a study of texture and sonority, shaped through the unique pairing of two double basses and two hardanger fiddles. Composed by Jon Heilbron, whose practice bridges modern settings and folk tradition, these works were born from co…