Another Timbre
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catalogue
Index of musicians appearing on
Another Timbre. Click on name to
see discs on which they appear.
Summer 2012
Winter 2012
Silence and after 2,
Summer 2011
Spring 2011
Silence and after 1,
December 2010
at55 Chantier 1
Pascal Battus, Bertrand Gauguet, Eric La Casa
“A transcendent disc.” Julien Heraud
at54r three bodies (moving)
Catherine Lamb
“I can listen to this forever….beautiful work” Brian Olewnick
at53r Unbalanced In (Unbalanced Out)
Barry Chabala, Bonnie Jones, Louisa Martin, Tisha Mukarji, Toshimaru Nakamura
& Gabriel Paiuk
“A sensitive, intimate and spacious piece….recommended!” Julien Heraud
at52 Kolk
Christoph Schiller & Birgit Ulher
“Intense, profound, rich in colour….very good” Julien Heraud
at51 Outwash
Angharad Davies, Tisha Mukarji, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga
“Very beautiful…as good as any improvisation I have heard yet this year.” Richard Pinnell
at50 Atto
Osvaldo Coluccino
“Rewarding for years to come.” John Eyles
at49 Pinna
Tim Blechmann & Klaus Filip
“Lovely, Lovely music.” Richard Pinnell
at48 Thread
Annette Krebs, Anthea Caddy, Magda Mayas
“Never a dull moment…Great CD!” Frans de Waard
at47 Ist gefallen in den Schnee
Magnus Granberg / Skogen
“Demands to be heard again and again. Sublime.” John Eyles
at-b08 A Pauper’s Guide to John Cage
Anett Németh
CDR
“Beautiful, resonant, mysterious work.” Michael Pisaro
at46 No Islands - Two improvisations + John Cage’s ‘Four 6’
Stephen Cornford, Patrick Farmer, Sarah Hughes & Kostis Kilymis
Youtube extracts: (1) Cage (2) improvisation
“Delicious and perverse richness.” David Grundy
at45 Droplets
Dominic Lash, Patrick Farmer & Sarah Hughes
Improvisation & realisations of pieces by Taylan Susam & Eva-Maria Houben
Youtube extracts: (1) improvisation (2) Houben
“So, so very good indeed.” Richard Pinnell
at44 divsions that could be autonomous but that comprise the whole
James Saunders
“Saunders discovers a stark beauty.” Dominic Lash
at43 Caisson
by Tierce (Jez riley French, Daniel Jones & Ivan Palackŷ)
“Exquisite indeed” David Grundy
Duos with brass,
June 2010
at29 Martin Küchen, Keith Rowe, Seymour Wright
“As if under the effect of a spell, a captivating musical discourse emerges from the chaos.”
Jean-Claude Gevrey, scala tympani
at28 Corgroc
by Ap’strophe (Ferran Fages & Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga)
“One of the most important releases in a long time in all categories of music.” Thomas Millroth, Sound of Music
at27 Duet
Martine Altenburger & John Russell
“One gets the sense of two old friends engaged in a relaxed dialogue
....a particularly welcome release.” Michael Rosenstein, Paris Transatlantic
at26 Crepuscular Rays
Toshimaru Nakamura & Håvard Volden
“A great flow and fine interaction....excellent.” Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly
Out of catalogue Fragment of the cadastre
Rhodri Davies, Michel Doneda, Louisa Martin, Phil Minton & Lee Patterson
“Wonderful music.” Richard Pinnell, The Watchful Ear
at38 dying sun
by Looper (Martin Küchen, Nikos Veliotis & Ingar Zach)
(co-release with Cathnor label)
“The music opens up through active listening and silently electrifies” Arild Andersen
at37 Fields have Ears
Michael Pisaro
“A stunning piece of work, a great release” Brian Olewnick
at36 Wunderkammern
David Toop, Rhodri Davies & Lee Patterson
“A fascinating approach to improvisation, dense with meaning and textures” Stuart Broomer
at35 Arena Ladridos
Chris Cogburn, Bonnie Jones & Bhob Rainey
“Arena Ladridos is an aesthetic delight.”, Matthew Horne
at34 John Cage - Four4
Simon Allen, Chris Burn, Lee Patterson, Mark Wastell
“I found myself absolutely absorbed throughout - a wonderful recording.” Brian Olewnick
at33 Pie ‘n’ Mash
Mathias Forge & Olivier Toulemonde
“A fine blend of electroacoustic music and improvisation.” Frans de Waard
at32 Giles U.
Carl Ludwig Hübsch & Christoph Schiller
“Subtle music that is both sympathetic and beautiful.” John Eyles
at31 A.D.
Angharad Davies & Axel Dörner
“retains the atmosphere of surprise, of magic ,that great improvisation is capable of providing” David Grundy
at30 Nella Basilica
Roberto Fabbriciani & Robin Hayward
“Just great music.” Richard Pinnell, The Watchful Ear
at25 Heartland
Magda Mayas
“A breathtaking work, excellently and expertly played.” Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly
at24 The Middle Distance
Chris Burn, Simon H Fell & Philip Thomas
“A truly outstanding album” Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic
at-b07 Turned moment, weighting
Stephen Cornford & Samuel Rodgers
CDR
“Beautiful work, that maintains an extraordinary concentration.” Stuart Broomer, Point of Departure
at10 Lost Daylight
Compositions by Terry Jennings and John Cage
Played by John Tilbury & Sebastian Lexer
“Equally beautiful, challenging and stunning.” Richard Pinnell, The Watchful Ear
at23 and we disappear
by The Sealed Knot (Burkhard Beins, Rhodri Davies & Mark Wastell)
“A stunning recording.” Brian Olewnick, Just Outside
at22 Empty Matter
Lucio Capece & Lee Patterson
“Spellbinding improvisers with a telling economy of gesture and discourse.” Jean Dezart, Le Son du Grisli
at21 The Cat from Cat Hill
by Loris (Patrick Farmer, Sarah Hughes & Daniel Jones)
“With The Cat from Cat Hill Another Timbre delivers yet another gem.” Michael Rosenstein, Paris Transatlantic
at20 Arethusa
Wade Matthews & Stéphane Rives
“Great meditative improvised music.” Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly
at-b06 Scrub
Léo Dumont & Matt Milton
CDR
“The two build a tensile energy broken by carefully placed pools of stasis.” Michael Rosenstein, Paris Transatlantic
at-b05 Meshes
Mathias Forge, Phil Julian & David Papapostolou
CDR
“Every nuanced scratch, popped string, and overtone is placed against percussive attack.”
Michael Rosenstein, Paris Transatlantic
at-b04 Control and its Opposites
Jamie Coleman, Grundik Kasyansky & Seymour Wright
CDR
“Control and Its Opposites is as good as it gets.” Richard Pinnell, The Watchful Ear
at-b03 Loiter Volcano
Paul Abbott, Léo Dumont & Ute Kanngiesser
CDR
“An impeccable, commanding vocabulary” Dave Madden, Squid’s Ear
at19 Midhopestones
Rhodri Davies, Michel Doneda, Louisa Martin, Phil Minton & Lee Patterson
“Another gem from the label.” Guillaume Tarche, Le Son du Grisli
at18 Decentred - improvisations + scores by John Cage and Michael Pisaro
Tom Chant, Angharad Davies, Benedict Drew & John Edwards
“This is a gorgeous disc...There is a sense of discovery throughout. “ Marc Medwin, ParisTransatlantic
at-b02 Dark Architecture
Max Eastley & Rhodri Davies
CDR
“A truly remarkable document of an extraordinary occasion.” John Eyles, All About Jazz
at17 Lúnula
By Octante (Ruth Barberán, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Ferran Fages & Margarida Garcia)
“The music on this record is magnificent.” Thomas Millroth, Sound of Music
at16 Electricals
By EKG (Kyle Bruckmann & Ernst Karel)
“An inexplicably excellent work.” Massimo Ricci Temporary Fault
at15 Kravis Rhonn Project
Annette Kreba & Rhodri Davies
“The most essential lesson this side of silence.” Massimo Ricci, Temporary Fault
at14 Two
By TOOT (Axel Dörner, Thomas Lehn & Phil Minton)
“One of the most musically satisfying improv releases of the year,” Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic
at-b01 Centre of Mass
Alfredo Costa Monteiro
CDR
“Centre of Mass is quite wonderful.” Keith Moliné The Wire
at13 Blasen
Sebastian Lexer & Seymour Wright
”Blasen is as mature and spacious as vintage AMM.” Dan Warburton, The Wire
at12 Dun
Matt Davis , Matt Milton & Bechir Saade
“Really enjoyable, intelligent music.” Brian Olewnick, Just Outside
at-r01 Performances 1969 - 1977
Hugh Davies
another timbre archive series CDR
“A dazzling array of sounds from the most unpromising of sources....Essential.” John Eyles, All About Jazz
at11 For Hugh Davies
Hugh Davies + Adam Bohman, Lee Patterson & Mark Wastell
“Totally fantastic....each piece is something of a gem.” Brian Olewnick, Just Outside
at09 ...de las piedras
Esteban Algora, Alessandra Rombolá & Ingar Zach
“Not only perfectly executed but delicate by its very nature.” Tom Sekowski, Gaz-eta
at08 An Account of my Hut
Clive Bell & Bechir Saade
“A music which seeks out and excites a pure and extremely fragile beauty.” Alfio Castorina, Kathodik
at07 Obdo
Frédéric Blondy & Thomas Lehn
“It’s in the quiet, contemplative moments that the radical beauty of Obdo is found.”
Tom Sekowski, Gaz-eta
at06 A Life Saved by a Spider and Two Doves
Max Eastley, Graham Halliwell, Evan Parker, Mark Wastell
“One of the most beautiful sound landscapes of the year. Majestic.” Guillaume Tarche, Improjazz
at05 endspace
Angharad Davies & Tisha Mukarji
“endspace is quite stunningly gorgeous.” Richard Pinnell, Bagatellen
at04 Hum
Rhodri Davies, Matt Davis, Samantha Rebello & Bechir Saade
“A strange kind of beauty moves within hum....” Alfio Castorina - Kathodik
at03 Music for Shakuhachi
By Frank Denyer
played by Yoshikazu Iwamoto
“The rare beauty of these pieces means that this disc is truly significant. It is like no other.”
Boris Wlassoff , Revues et Corrigees
at02 Tasting
Sophie Agnel & Phil Minton
“A stranger, more delicate and astonishing music can hardly have been made.”
Rigobert Dittmann, Bad Alchemy
at01 Tempestuous
By The Contest of Pleasures (John Butcher, Xavier Charles & Axel Dörner)
“Music of extraordinary lunar beauty” Nate Dorward - Coda
The guitar series,
April 2010
Out of catalogue
The Piano Series,
January 2010
Autumn 2009
at42 ///grape skin
Michel Doneda, Jonas Kocher & Christoph Schiller
“Another winner from Another Timbre, well worth searching out.” Michael Rosenstein
at41 Choices
Lucio Capece & Birgit Ulher
“A highly vibrant release, bursting with energy.” Frans de Waard
at40 Horsky Park
Tiziana Bertoncini & Thomas Lehn
“Really great stuff, my favourite improvised album of this year so far.” Richard Pinnell
at39 Spiral Inputs
Sophie Agnel, Bertrand Gauguet & Andrea Neumann
“Dreamy, captivating and bewitching.” Julien Heraud
London workshop
series
Summer 2009
Spring 2009
Winter 2008
Summer 2008
Spring 2008
Winter 2007
Autumn 2012
at56x6 Wandelweiser und so weiter
6-disc box set featuring music by composers in or around the Wandelweiser collective,
including Sam Sfirri, Jurg Frey, Antoine Beuger, Taylan Susam, Michael Pisaro,
Radu Malfatti, Eva-Maria Houben, John Cage, James Saunders and others
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