Alex Paxton - Music for Bosch People
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Label: Birmingham Contemporary
Cat No: BRC011
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 14th May 2021
Contents
Works
LONDONGLUMMusic for Bosch People
Prayer Like Hot Pink
Prayer Like I Know
Prayer in the Darkness
Prayer with Night Pictures
Prayer with Strings and Joan Rivers
Artists
Alex Paxton (trombones, leader)Christine Buras (soprano)
Harriet Burns (soprano)
Mike De Souza (electric guitar)
Alyson Frazier (piccolo)
Matthew Herd (saxophone)
David Ingamells (drum kit)
Felix Josza (electric guitar)
Rob Luft electric (guitar)
Emma Purslow (violin, viola)
David Zucchi (saxophone)
Works
LONDONGLUMMusic for Bosch People
Prayer Like Hot Pink
Prayer Like I Know
Prayer in the Darkness
Prayer with Night Pictures
Prayer with Strings and Joan Rivers
Artists
Alex Paxton (trombones, leader)Christine Buras (soprano)
Harriet Burns (soprano)
Mike De Souza (electric guitar)
Alyson Frazier (piccolo)
Matthew Herd (saxophone)
David Ingamells (drum kit)
Felix Josza (electric guitar)
Rob Luft electric (guitar)
Emma Purslow (violin, viola)
David Zucchi (saxophone)
About
His work draws upon an range of classical, experimental, electronic and folk music traditions to create a unique and explosive voice. The ‘Bosch’ in the title refers to the 16th-century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, whose horrifically fantastical images inspire Paxton to make highly-charged genre-hopping music that is joyful and exciting but with violent aspects mixed in as well.
Paxton uses the phrase ‘infinite MIDI synths’ to describe the way he composes. Tracks 3–7 began life as layers of recorded improvisations on a simple little stylophone and a small cheap MIDI synth, which were then written over with notation and orchestrated for a live band of drums, sax, guitar and trombone, electronics and tape elements. The title track is the densest, most complex piece he’s ever written and was composed especially for this recording. LONDONGLUM is a manic solo for vocalising trombonist that showcases Paxton’s compelling musical language.
Paxton was elected to the 9th International Composition Seminar with Ensemble Modern, has won the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, Dankworth Jazz Prize, Leverhulme Art Scholar Prize, Harriet Cohen Music Award, appointed as London Symphony Orchestra Panufnik Composer and has been commissioned by legendary multi-instrumentalist John Zorn.
“Manic, brilliant, beauty” – Listenpony
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