Music Chamber

Ian's ambition here is contemporary yet tuneful chamber music, with most tracks written with these players and their instruments in mind: saxophonist Kyle Horch, violinist Guillem Calvo and pianist Pavel Timofejevsky. At the core of the album is a substantial violin sonata. It’s composed in a traditional 19th Century sonata style with much use of rubato and flexible tempos. Interwoven are themes, harmony and phrasing with a provenance in Celtic and psychedelic music. The delays often found in electronic music can be heard in ‘Astral Hurdy-Gurdy’. In ‘Limes Groves of South Kensington’ the piano imitates the Autoharp (prominent in Bluegrass music), with each instrument providing a pulsing part somewhere in the textures. The title track Islas (Spanish for Islands - with Ian enjoying Spain and Malta when he can escape London) is influenced by ambient/new age music. The piano creates a dreamy texture over which the soprano sax plays long melodic lines.

TRACKS:
  1.  Islas
  2.  Astral Hurdy-Gurdy: Movement One
  3.  Astral Hurdy-Gurdy: Movement Two
  4.  Astral Hurdy-Gurdy: Movement Three
  5.  Mornwards
  6.  Sonata For Violin And Piano: Movement One
  7.  Sonata For Violin And Piano: Movement Two
  8.  Sonata For Violin And Piano: Movement Three
  9.  Sonata For Violin And Piano: Movement Four
10.  Lime Groves Of South Kensington: Movement One
11.  Lime Groves Of South Kensington: Movement Two
12.  Lime Groves Of South Kensington: Movement Three
13.  As Far As You Can See