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
Reviews
Bandcamp: Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical June 2021 — Peter Magarsak
Review of Oliver Leith’s ‘Me Hollywood’ album with Another Timbre
“…the tender vulnerability of his writing proves gripping and, as with most of these five works, unlike anything else I’ve heard this year.”
TEMPO, Caroline Potter - November 2021
Review of Oliver Leith’s ‘Me Hollywood’ album with Another Timbre
‘Perhaps the best way to describe Leith’s album would be musical surrealism, and perhaps, on reflection, that’s why it appeals to me so strongly: his music makes the everyday strange and the strange everyday.”
The Squid’s Ear — Thomas Mellish
Review of Oliver Leith’s ‘Me Hollywood’ album with Another Timbre
“Explore Ensemble plays with a consummate ease, providing an appropriate stage for Leith's pieces to be realized. Me Hollywood represents a fantastic intersection between vision and technique, ideas and deeds. I certainly felt 'something.'“