My first solo album has just been released on HCR/NMC!
Each of the pieces on πτελέα | Ptelea was written in the spirit of intense collaboration: six pieces by six composers from different parts of the globe – the United States, Japan, the UK, Norway and Chile – each composer engaged in a deep relationship with the clarinet and its performer, each piece illuminating the unique musical language of its composer.
Including soundscapes of softly emerging dyads (Bauck), elusive sounds that sit on the border of inaudibility (Morishita) and pre-recorded human voices that emerge from inside the clarinet’s bell (Einbond), all these composers have made careful and intriguing selections of materials – there are no ‘everything and the kitchen sink’ here. Rather, this collection is concerned with aspects of resistance or limitation and the exploration of margins and boundary zones.
TRACKLISTING
1 Aaron Einbond: Resistance (2012) for bass clarinet and live electronics
2 Chikako Morishita: Lizard (shadow) (2011) for clarinet
3 Martin Iddon: Ptelea (2014) for bass clarinet
4 Martin Rane Bauck: kopenhagener stille (2014) for clarinet
5 Pedro Alvarez: Instead (2013) for clarinet
6 Max Murray: Ad Marginem des Versuchs (2015)
Grab your copy HERE.
