Spring 2019

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On the Cover: “The Musical Colours of Dominique Fils-Aimé” by Chaka V. Grier.Features: “Linda Catlin Smith Lets in the Light” by Monica Pearce. Photographs by Claire Harvie. “The S ound Habitats of Scott Smallwood” by Ian Crutchley. “Wadada Leo Smith and the Possibilities of Dreaming” by Alexander Varty. Profile: “Webber/Morris Big Band” by Kurt Gottschalk. Sound Bites: “First-place winner, Musicworks’ 2018 Electronic Music Composition Contest: Manuella Blackburn’s Landline” by Jennie Punter. “Pleasure Calls: an installation by Camae Ayewa and Carmel Farabakhsh” by Nick Dourado. “Samuel Andreyev’s Sonic Organisms” by Nick Storring. “Editor’s Note: Under The Influence” by Jennie Punter. Reviews of music from: Bob Bell, Bill Bissett & Th Mandan Massacre, François Carrier / Michel Lambert / John Edwards, Flying Hórses, François Houle / Alexander Hawkins / Harris Eisenstadt, Amirtha Kidambi & the Elder Ones, Ingrid Laubrock, George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell, Hugh Marsh, and New Hermitage. Label profile: “HAVN Records: Art Music in ‘The Hammer” by Daniel Glassman. Reviewed: Sonic Acts Festival: Hereafter—An Exhibition in Three Acts (Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Cluster New Music and Integrated Arts Festival (Winnipeg, Manitoba); The Free Musics. By Jack Wright. Musicworks 133 CD 1 Landline (2018) 9:33 Composed and performed by Manuella Blackburn, (fixed media—stereo). Created in the composer’s home studio in Manchester, U.K. Previously unreleased. First-place winner of Musicworks’ 2018 Electronic Music Composition Contest. 2 Some Body (2018) 4:06 Composed by Dominique Fils-Aimé. Performed by Dominique Fils-Aimé (voice), Jacques Roy (upright bass), Salin Cheewapansri (drums), and Elli Miller Maboungou (percussion). 3 9LRR (2018) 1:56 Composed by Dominique Fils-Aimé. Performed by Dominique Fils-Aimé (voice), Jacques Roy (upright bass), Salin Cheewapansri (drums), Elli Miller Maboungou (percussion), Hichem Khalfa (trumpet), and Jean-Michel Frédéric (piano). Some Body and 9LRR are from the album Stay Tuned! (2019) on Ensoul Records. 4 Strasbourg Quartet, fourth movement (2014–15) 8:11 Composed by Samuel Andreyev. Performed by Hanatsu Miroir: Ayako Okubo (flutes), Thomas Monod (clarinets), Olivier Maurel (percussion), and Elsa Dorbath (cello). Previously unreleased. 5 Piano Piece No. 3 (2016) 1:30 Composed by Samuel Andreyev. Performed by Ian Pace. Previously unreleased. 6 And It Rolled Right Down (2016) 6:40 Composed by Angela Morris. Performed by the Webber/Morris Big Band: Angela Morris (conductor); Anna Webber (tenor saxophone), Jay Rattman, Charlotte Greve, Adam Schneit, Lisa Parrott (woodwinds); John Lake, Adam O'Farrill, Jake Henry, Kenny Warren (trumpet); Tim Vaughn, Nick Grinder, Jen Baker, Reginald Chapman (trombone); Patricia Brennan (vibraphone); Dustin Carlson (guitar); Marc Hannaford (piano); Adam Hopkins (bass); Jeff Davis (drums). Previously unreleased. 7 Rebonds (2018) 3:12 Composed by Anna Webber. Performed by the Webber/Morris Big Band: Anna Webber (conductor); Angela Morris (tenor saxophone), all others as on track 6. Previously unreleased. 8 Piano Quintet (2014) 13:17 Composed by Linda Catlin Smith. Performed by Quatuor Bozzini: Clemens Merkel, Alissa Cheung (violins), Stéphanie Bozzini (viola), Isabelle Bozzini (cello); with Philip Thomas (piano). From the double album Drifter (Another Timbre, at105x2). 9 Pacifica Coral Reef (2018) 5:15 Composed by Wadada Leo Smith. Performed by Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet, piano). Previously unreleased. 10 Fields of a Lost City (2018) 12:17 Composed and performed by Evidence (Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood), with guest vocalist Samantha LightShade. Previosly unreleased. Musicworks 133 CD released April 2019. © all rights reserved Show more