Discography: 2020s
Raymond Antrobus & Evelyn Glennie: Another Noise | Spoken Word Poetry Album
30th August 2024
- The Noise (featuring Precious Perez) 01:52
- Upwards 01:19
- Resonance 02:36
- Signs, Music 01:50
- Addicted to Every Distraction of You 01:21
- Member 01:27
- Text and Image 03:46
- The Mechanism of Speech 00:58
- Horror Scene as Black English Royal (captioned) 02:46
- Oklahoma City 02:13
- Ode to My Hair 01:21
- To the William Blake Professor 01:28
Raymond Antrobus, spoken word poetry
Produced by Ian Brennan
Listen on Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D7TDZBK2
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Tangled Goodbye – Evelyn Glennie, Owen Gardner, John Edwards, Bex Burch | Album
23rd August 2024
With a residency at London’s Café OTO as the backdrop, Burch’s ‘messy minimalism’ intertwines with Glennie’s percussive mastery, Edwards’ expansive contrabass techniques, and Gardner’s hypnotic guitar micro-tones, resulting in five tracks that enthrall and reward deep listening, with their unexpected turns and vital dynamics.
Glennie – who has won two Grammys among other awards and nominations, and whose work includes that with Bjork and Bobby McFerrin – has been exploring percussive sounds by listening with her whole body for decades. Virtuoso contrabassist Edwards’ staggering range of techniques has been expanding the role of the instrument as a pillar of the London experimental music and free jazz scene since the mid-1990s, whilst being a near permanent fixture in Evan Parker and Louis Moholo-Moholo’s groups too.
Gardner, best known for his work with Matmos, and the beloved experimental rock band Horse Lords, creates deeply personal and hypnotic microtones on his self-modified guitars, using the ‘just intonation’ tuning system. Burch’s work is characterized by a unique blend of space, repetition, and controlled chaos, as exemplified on her acclaimed 2023 solo album, ‘There is only love and fear’, released by Chicago’s International Anthem, and awarded the prestigious title of The Guardian’s Contemporary Album of the Month.
Safe spaces for free expression and collaboration are becoming increasingly rare these days, but Café OTO in Dalston, East London, has provided that freedom to its community of artists and listeners for more than 15 years. The venue regularly invites performers for multi-day residencies, allowing them the opportunity to present a wider scope of their work than a single concert ever could.
In September 2022, OTO welcomed Bex Burch for one of these residencies, and for one evening, Burch invited Glennie, Edwards, and Gardner to perform an improvised set with her. The results sound wild and free at times, then again quiet and restrained, thriving off dynamics and contrast. Quietness and space gives way to loudness and frenzy, gentle slowness leads into frenetic busyness. What doesn’t change is that it feels vital and alive in every moment.
The base layer of the music is shaped by the two percussionists Burch and Glennie, with sparse melodic elements added by Burch’s xylophone and Garder’s microtonal guitar, while Edwards’ double bass works like a motor, suggesting direction and holding together the compositions that cohere elements of free jazz, noise, industrial, minimal music and musique concrète.
Relying mainly on room mics, without any overdubs. The five tracks on the album were compiled and edited from the most striking moments of a longer OTO set, picked by Burch and titled by Glennie.
Each song title consists of two words – a concrete, relatively specific noun combined with an abstract, airy adjective or adverb that confuses the listener’s imagination, similar to the often unforeseeable changes of direction in the music. How can a goodbye be ‘tangled’? When’s an image ‘liquid’? What is ‘nervous’ attraction? Which toys were ‘stolen’ and by whom?
The album marks the sixth release on Burch’s Vula Viel Records, named after the post-punk band she helms, and follows ‘Skylla’, a Guardian Top Ten Album of 2021, by long-time Vula Viel bassist, Ruth Goller, and ‘Boing!’, the collaborative album with Leafcutter John.
Vula Viel means ‘good is good’ in Dagaare, or ‘the good we do remains’. ‘Tangled Goodbye’ isn’t about commercial scalability, but about artistic expression, about continuing to create, expand and inhabit these spaces.
02 Inner Workings
03 Tangled Goodbye
04 Nervous Attraction
05 Stolen Toys
Owen Gardner, microtonal guitar
John Edwards, contrabass
Bex Burch, percussion
Mixed by Alex Bonney
Mastered by Dave Vettraino
All music composed and recorded by Evelyn Glennie, Owen Gardner, John Edwards and Bex Burch
Engineered by Pedro Subtil at Cafe OTO
Artwork and design by Charlotte Bräuer
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Anthropometricks – Trio HLK | CD
March 2024
fIVe 08:42
Concertinas (for Bill) 08:54
Prelude 04:03
Flanagan’s Lament 04:50
Apostrophe (part i) 01:47
Apostrophe (part ii) 07:22
Stellar 08:55
Featuring Evelyn Glennie, Natalie Clein and Varijashree Venugopal
Listen on Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B0CN9QC7Q7
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/anthropometricks-feat-rich-harrold-ant-law-rich-kass/1717845327
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Capt’s Look – Evelyn Glennie, Szilárd Mezei Polar Quartet | CD
December 2023
Projects like this one are unique and perhaps do not happen as much as they should. Evelyn Glennie has always been a trailblazer in the percussion community and the world of classical music but is not often discussed as an improviser. Szilard Mezei and his team of regular performers, despite being as prolific with their output as they have been for decades, do not receive as much attention or credit as is merited, but this is also true of other significant improvisers (György Szabados, Derek Bailey, Albert Ayler, and others being in a similar category). However, as this album demonstrates, free improvisers and prominent mainstream soloists can easily and effectively occupy the same spaces and create incredible musical experiences. This performance, as well as Core-tet, can bring different kinds of listeners together. Dame Evelyn, Mezei, Ranković, Burka, and Malina have given listeners a collaboration that provides a bridge between two types of musicians, showing that perhaps the distances between them are not so great.
Look 00:07:06
Evelyn Glennie – percussions
Szilárd Mezei – viola
Bogdan Ranković – clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax
Ivan Burka – vibraphone, percussions
Ervin Malina – double bass
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Ailís Ní Ríain: The Last Time I Died | CD
May 2023
NMC D270
Described by the Irish Times as “a significant talent” Ní Ríain’s music has been performed across Europe and further afield in Brazil, Japan, and the USA. One of the principle ideas explored in Ní Ríain’s work is communication with others, something which she has a unique perspective on as she is deaf/hard of hearing. Whilst this has sometimes placed her in challenging situations regarding verbal communication, her hearing differences have also heightened and enhanced how she relates to sound. The Last Time I Died is a portrait of a composer harnessing this unique experience of the sonic world to explore a huge range of substantial themes including consciousness, relationships, reality, and death.
Focal points on the album include Revelling/Reckoning, a two-movement work for wind quintet and percussion, which aims to reflect the contradictory nature of existence, heard here in a recording by the New London Chamber Ensemble and another musician who has embraced her hearing challenges in her artistry, the iconic percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Contradiction also lies at the heart of Hiding Out ‘Neath the Everything for violin and recorded altered piano, which explores the internal and external aspects of consciousness in this recording featuring violinist Darragh Morgan. Soberado, a toy piano work that reflects on experiences of sobriety, really exemplifies Ní Ríain’s distinct approach to instrumentation in this recording by Xenia Pestova Bennett. Featuring Tim Williams on cimbalom and Tom McKinney on guitar, Thank You is a movement from Ní Ríain’s 2010 music-theatre work Brief-Blue-Electric-Bloom, which combines music, sign language, poetry and animation, aiming to “enable a deaf audience and ‘disable’ a hearing audience so that they might ‘receive’ the work equally”.
Hiding out ‘neath the Everything 00:06:36
Parambassis 00:08:06
Our First Lesson in Forgetting 00:07:24
Consent #7 00:07:40
Brief – Blue – Electric – Bloom: Thank You 00:02:12
Revelling / Reckoning: I. Revelling 00:06:40
Revelling / Reckoning: II. Reckoning 00:08:17
Seahorse [Long Snouted] 00:03:42
Don’t! 00:04L:50
The Last Time I Died 00:08:05
Darragh Morgan violin
Ailís Ní Ríain pre-recorded piano
Tim Williams cimbalom, percussion
Paul Roe bass clarinet
Laoise O’Brien recorder
Frederik Munk Larsen guitar
Sarah Watts bass clarinet
Carla Rees bass flute
Tom McKinney guitar
Evelyn Glennie percussion
New London Chamber Ensemble
Darren Bloom conductor
Exponential Ensemble
Psappha
Listen on Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.co.uk/music/player/albums/B0BXZC2Y8L
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/ail%C3%ADs-n%C3%AD-r%C3%ADain-the-last-time-i-died/1676626183
SANDMAN’S CASTLE – The Solo and Duo Works of Vincent Ho | Digital Album
October 2022
NV6462
Between explorations of uncharted territories with tam-tam and music boxes and thoughtful juxtapositions of the drumset with mainstays in classical music, Ho pulls out all of the stops with the renowned featured performers, and his dexterous compositional tool-kit throughout.
Dame Evelyn Glennie – percussion
Vicky Chow – piano
Ben Reimer – drum kit
Susanne Ruberg-Gordon – piano
Beth Root Sandvoss – cello
Listen on Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B0BG1CQ2FD
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Immersive Stories: Sue Verran, Evelyn Glennie, Chris Warner | Digital Album
October 2021
Mystery Express 02:48
Hang Clouds 03:05
Silver Spider 02:35
Fog Bound 03:36
Tense Expectations 02:48
Low Cafe Tango 02:35
Meanwhile Gardens 02:36
Evelyn Glennie percussion
Chris Warner orchestrator
Listen on Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B09JXYV93R
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/immersive-stories/1591231290
Joan Tower Strike Zones | CD
July 2021
Naxos 8.559902
Small 00:06:31
Still/Rapids
I. Still 00:05:00
II. Rapids 00:12:36
Ivory and Ebony 00:07:33
Blair McMillen, Piano
Albany Symphony Orchestra
David Alan Miller
Listen on Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B0977LW6QY
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/joan-tower-strike-zones-small-still-rapids-ivory-and-ebony/1572314319
Soundtrack from Director Darius Marder’s Academy Award–Winning Film ‘Sound of Metal,’ By Abraham Marder and Nicolas Becker
April 2021
Nonesuch
2 Cochlea (feat. Evelyn Glennie) – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker3 Audiology (feat. Evelyn Glennie) – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker
4 Last Threads (feat. Evelyn Glennie) – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker
5 North – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker
6 OF – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker
7 ‘Rejoice, Beelzebub!’ (feat. Carolina Santana) – Elan Sicroff, Carolina Santana
8 The Deed – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker, Carolina Santana
9 METAL – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker, Carolina Santana
10 Bells – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker
11 Communion – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker
12 Green – Abraham Marder
13 Cet Amour Me Tue (feat. Martha Wainwright) – Arthur H
14 Purify (feat. Harry Cantwell) – Margaret Chardiet
15 Cet Amour Me Tue – Olivia Cooke, Matheiu Amalric
16 Purify – Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke
Source: Sound of Metal Movie
Genre: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music by Various Artists (Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker & VA)
Listen on Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B093K5LPJN
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/sound-of-metal-music-from-the-motion-picture/1564716884
Open Barrier | CD
February 2021
Naxos World
Daf – Asal Malekzadeh
Percussion – Dame Evelyn Glennie, CH DBE.
Listen on Amazon Music: https://amazon.co.uk/music/player/albums/B08V9CPMFD
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/open-barrier/1551154576
Liverpool Lullabies – Waves of Wollongong | CD
February 2021
BIS
Lindberg, C: The Waves of Wollongong
- New Trombone Collective, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
- Christian Lindberg
Lindberg, C: Liverpool Lullabies
- Evelyn Glennie (percussion), Christian Lindberg (trombone)
- Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
- Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
- Glennie, Evelyn
- Lindberg, Christian
Listen on Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B08MXHPPDH
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/christian-lindberg-orchestral-works/1539236922
Concertos for Mallet Instruments | CD
January 2021
Naxos 8574218
Listen on Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B08QFDDV3R
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/alrich-jenkins-rorem-mallet-concertos/1544785670
Countermeasure Guest Sessions | CD
September 2020
Countermeasure
- Michael Davidson
- Christian Roberge
- Kevin Fox
- Rich Brown
- Randy Brecker
- Cindy Cashdollar
- Charlie Gabriel
- Dame Evelyn Glennie
- Natalie MacMaster
- Pamelia Stickney
Listen on Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B08FRFCKRT
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/guest-sessions/1527218696
Will Pound’s A Day Will Come
8th May 2020
Will Pound Lulubug Records LULUBUG005
This album is for all Europeans wherever you come from and whatever you believe in.”
Will Pound
- JAUTRAIS KRODZIS – MAASLAND JIG – Latvia and Belgium 04:46
- MY DARLING ASLEEP – JIMMY WARDS – STENSONS No2 – Ireland 04:48
- KAAPREN VAREN – EL CANDI – Holland and Spain 04:18
- KRAKOIAK – ELLIN POLKKA – Poland and Finland 06:22
- D-DAQQA TALAMMARUN – AADU POLKA – Malta and Estonia 04:04
- MURINHEIRA TRANSMONTANA DANCE – JAUNIMLIO POLKA – Portugal and Spain 03:50
- RACA PLAVA PO DRAVI – CSARDAS SZAJHARMONKAN – Croatia and Hungary 03:34
- KOZAN MAR – PIOS MORO MOU – Greece and Cyprus 04:28
- MUZIC PESTE GRANIE – RACHENISTCA – Romania and Bulgaria 03:58
- SCOTTISH A VIRMOUX – SBRANDO – NEAPOLITAN TARRANTELLA – France and Italy 07:16
- SALTIN – SIKOVNY CARDAS – Slovakia and Slovenia 03:06
- TANTZ – EXA RONGGER – Germany and Austria 04:58
- PASLA KONIKA PODLE VOSENIKA – PROCESSION OF ECHTER – Czech Republic and Luxembourg 07:21
- OSTINDIENS VELKOMST – SLANGPOLSKA – Denmark and Sweden 06:34
Jenn Butterworth, Guitar
Patsy Reid, Fiddle
Jude Rees, English Bagpipes, Oboe and Sax
John Parker, Double bass
Liz Carrol, Fiddle
Dame Evelyn Glennie, Percussion
Stream of Sound, Vocals
Gudrun Walther, Fiddle
Dunja Bahtijarevic, Vocals
Bohdan Piasecki, Poetry
Listen on Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.co.uk/music/player/albums/B0874X65DW
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/will-pounds-a-day-will-come/1508911057
Glasgow Bells / CD
May 2020
Priory Records
Listen on Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B08BJGQXST
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