Discography

PARALLAXIS FORMA

Music for voice and ensemble by Catherine Lamb
Another Timbre (at215). Released 22 September 2023

Personnel

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Juliet Fraser (soprano), Cathy Bell (mezzo-soprano), Michael Hickman (baritone), Julia Doukakis (viola 1), Emma Purslow (viola 2), Deni Teo (cello), Toby Hughes (double bass)

Exaudi Vocal Ensemble
James Weeks, artistic director

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Lotte Betts-Dean (multi-tracked voices)

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Lotte Betts-Dean (voice), Taylor MacLennan (flute), Alex Roberts (clarinet), David Zucchi (saxophone), Sarah Park (tuned glasses), Sam Cave (guitar), David Lopez Ibañez (violin), Deni Teo (cello)

PERFECT OFFERING

Album with Huddersfield Contemporary Records, distributed by NMC.
Released 26 May 2023

“This immersive mix is a particular gift for listeners at home”
— New York Times, Seth Colter Walls

1) Perfect Offering - Cassandra Miller
2) Weather a Rare Blue - Lisa Illean
3) Suite - Lawrence Dunn
4) murmurs - Rebecca Saunders

Produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Nicholas Moroz

Cover artwork: detail of ‘Mystical Vandalism’ by Edward Lipski

This album was made possible thanks to the generous support of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Ensemble Prize and the Vaughan Williams Foundation.

Perfect Offering invites the listener to journey with the ensemble, inhabiting and exploring four vibrant, imaginary landscapes. Each is underlined by themes of place and space, ecstasy and tranquillity, lightness and darkness, as well as ambience, transience, refraction, and silence. There is a diverse interest in harmony evident in the music collected here – each composer exhibits a distinctive idiolect, ranging from Cassandra Miller’s entirely white note radiance to Rebecca Saunders’ haunting atonal timbralism, Lisa Illean’s spectrally-tinged, weathered sounds, and Lawrence Dunn’s wonky and surrealist tonalities.

This album bears the fruit of an awakening. Explore Ensemble’s pent-up energies – confined and distracted during the pandemic – were at last released over the course of 2022, with a return to concerts and recordings. That busy year was filled with reconnection and growth. This album presents Explore Ensemble’s resulting perspective on chamber music repertoire. It is music that, by invoking either actual or imagined spaces, goes beyond the “chamber” and the genre’s historical allegiance to the slippery notion of musical autonomy.

Huddersfield Contemporary Records is excited to announce that Perfect Offering is the first release from NMC Recordings in a 3D audio format, with both stereo and 3D audio mixes crafted by Explore Ensemble artistic director and album producer Nicholas Moroz. While the CD and digital download versions have been carefully mastered for the perfect stereo listening experience, listeners on Apple Music and TIDAL will be able to use the platforms' integration with Dolby Atmos to realise each track of the release as an immersive, spatial mix. Apple Music users with the correct headphones can take advantage of the head tracking feature to feel as though they are sitting right in the sweet spot of the concert hall, while purchasers of the digital download of Perfect Offering will get a taste of this experience through an exclusive, bonus binaural mix of Rebecca Saunder’s murmurs.

Me Hollywood

Oliver Leith portrait with Another Timbre
Released 12 May 2021
Cover artwork: Susan Te Kahurangi King

Including:

Me Hollywood (2020)
for sextet and tv

Grinding bust turning (2018)
for trio

664 love songs guaranteed to cure heartache (2016)
for bass flute, violin, violoncello, synthesiser and projector

Blurry wake song (2019)
for violin solo

Balloon (2018)
for nine players - conducted by Richard Baker

Summer

James Weeks portrait with Another Timbre
Released 12 May 2021
Cover artwork: Haris Kittos

Including:

Summer (2018)
for seven players

Violet - Violute (2018)
for violin and clarinet, and viola and bass flute

Düsseldorf (2017)
for seven players

Durham (2018)
for solo piano

Siro’s Garden (2018/2020)
for spoken voice, celtic harps, ensemble, and audio