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October 2011 - new CD+DVD
Tim Brady / Martin Messier / Bradyworks
"24 Frames - Trance" + "Scatter"
    
    
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to hear
audio clips: www.actuellecd.com
- October 2011- 24 Frames - Scatter - Ambiances magnétiques AM 206
Double CD of solo guitar music and duos with musicians from Bradyworks
- October 2010 - 24 Frames - Trance - Ambiances magnétiques AM 203
A CD+DVD of this multi-media projet for solo guitar, electronics (Brady) and video (Messier).
The BOX-SET "24 Frames" - nominated for "Best contemporary/modern recording of the year" - Prix OPUS 2010 - 2011.
- September 2009 - My 20th Century - Ambiances magnétiques AM 189
A CD+DVD of this multi-media work for 5 musicians, with music and text by Tim Brady and videos by Martin Messier and Oana Suteu
Nominated for a PRIX OPUS 2009-2010: Best contemporary/modern
recording of the year
- October 2007 - SCAT (because we all have voices and stories to tell) - Ambiances magnétiques AM 164
Australia's extraordinary chamber group Topology give stunning performances of four of Brady's most evocative and virtuoso chamber works. Recorded in Brisbane, Australia.
- October 2006 - GO [guitar
obsession] - Ambiances magnétiques AM 156
Brady's first solo guitar recording in 4 years combines several
exceptional live performances with new studio recordings, including
tape, looping, live computer and some flat-out improv. Music
by Brady, Tristan Murail, Alexander Burton, Jean-François
Laporte and Laurence Crane.
- November 2005 - Three
Cities in the Life of Dr. Norman Bethune - Ambiances
magnétiques AM 139
A one-act chamber opera for solo voice, 8 instruments and tape,
featuring a passionate performance by baritone Michael Donovan.
The work is an evocation of the last five years (1935 - 1939)
in the life of this remarkable doctor, humanitarian and political
activist.
Nominated for a PRIX OPUS 2005-2006: Best contemporary/modern
recording of the year
- September 2004 - Playing
Guitar: Symphony #1 - Ambiances magnétiques AM
125
The premiere recording of Brady's first symphony, a 46-minute
work for solo electric guitar, sampler, 15 musicians and live
electronics. The work was recorded by its commissioner, the Nouvel
Ensemble Moderne, under the direction of Lorraine Vaillancourt.
Also included is the work "Frame 1 - Resonance" for
electric guitar, electronics and piano. A beautiful and ambitious
recording project.
Nominated for a 2004-2005 PRIX OPUS: Best contemporary/modern
CD of the year
- April 2003 - Unison
Rituals - Ambiances magnétiques AM 110
A CD of Brady's chamber and ensemble music for saxophone, include
the saxophone quartet "Unison Rituals", three performances
by Bradyworks ("Double Helix", "Two Chords Less
Than a Blues" and "Escapement", featuring a scordatura guitar part), and a studio realisation of the work "Sound
Off", which uses overdubbing to create an ensemble of 48
winds and 3 bass drums. Beautifully recorded at Concordia University's
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, and with great performances from
the Quasar saxophone quartet, the KAPPA big band and Bradyworks.
Brady'second release for Ambiances magnétiques.
- November 2002 - Twenty
Quarter Inch Jacks - Ambiances magnétiques AM
107
A new CD of guitar music by Tim Brady, released to coincide with
the premiere of the instrumental music theatre work "20
Jacks 1/4", for 20 young guitarists, commissioned by the
international theatre festival "Les Coups de theatre".
The title track is a 30-minute work for 20 overdubbed guitars,
performed by Brady. Also included are two works from 2001, for
guitar and sampler/tape: "Music Box Bell Curves ("Hello
Paris!)" and "Sauchiehall Street". Almost 60 minutes
of guitar madness - Brady's first release on the Ambiances magnétiques
label.
- 2000 - 10 Collaborations - Justin Time Records JTR - 8484/5-2.
A double CD with almost 2 hours of music including 5 new works
by Brady, plus music by Jeremy Peyton-Jones (UK), Wende Bartley
(Canada), Tristan Murail (France), Yasuhiro Otani (Japan), Wes
Wraggett (Canada) and Atle Pakusch Gundersen (Norway) for solo
electric guitar and electronics, multiple guitars, and guitar
and chamber ensemble, with guest performances from Bradyworks'
soprano Annie Tremblay, harpsichordist vivé vinçent,
computer musician Yasuhiro Otani and the Penderecki String Quartet.
Listed
as one of the "Best CDs of 2001"- Downbeat Magazine
- 1997 - Strange Attractors - Justin Time Records JTR - 8464-2
Tim Brady - solo electric guitar, electronics, multitrack and
computer studio
Six new works by Tim Brady created using a wide variety of contemporary
electronic technology ranging from solo re-tuned guitar to works
for computer controlled sound and guitar. Sonic exploration,
wild guitar sounds, strong performances and the odd nice "tune"
thrown in for good measure.
- 1996 - Revolutionary
Songs - Justin Time Records JTR - 8459-2
Bradyworks - Tim Brady (gtr.); Nathalie Paulin (soprano); Marie-Josée
Simard (perc.); Louise-Andrée Baril (pno.); André
Leroux (sax.); Gordon Cleland (cello). The title track is a 39-minute
song-cycle based on poetry from the Russian, Angolan, French
and Nicaraguan revolutions, sung in English, French and Spanish.
Also on the CD are the works Circling (saxophone and vibraphone), Three or Four Days After the Death of Kurt Cobain (cello
and piano) and Walker Songs (solo soprano).
- 1994 - Scenarios - Justin Time Records JTR - 8445-2
Tim Brady - solo electric guitar and live electronics. Originally
recorded live in the CBC studios for the radio show Two New
Hours, this CD continues Brady's exploration into developing
a new musical language for the electric guitar. Works by Brady,
Michael Rosas Cobian, José-Manuel Montañés
and Marc Tremblay.
- 1992 - Imaginary Guitars - Justin Time Records JTR - 8440-2
Tim Brady - solo electric guitar and live electronics. Voted
one of the best guitar CDs of the year by Guitar Player's Editor Joe Gore, this recording presents four solo guitar works
with electronics and tape by Brady along with pieces from Paul
Dolden, René Lussier and Alain Thibault. The ultimate
electroacoutsic guitar experience.
- 1991 - Inventions - Justin Time Records JTR - 8433-2
Bradyworks Tim Brady (gtr.); Marie-Josée Simard (perc.);
Jacques Drouin (pno./sampler); Chris Best (cello); Simon Stone
(sax.) with guest improvisers John Surman (sax.), Barre Phillips
(bass) and Pierre Tanguay (perc.). The music from Brady's 1989
music / dance collaboration with choreographer Julie West, combining
elements of jazz, minimalism and electroacoustics.
- 1990 - Double Variations - Justin Time Records JTR - 8415-2
Tim Brady - electric and acoustic guitars, electronics and synthesizer;
John Abercrombie - electric guitar and guitar synthesizer. A
large, 14-movement work which intercuts a series of duos between
Brady and Abercrombie with 24-track overdubbed guitar textures
created by Brady.
- 1988 - Visions - Justin Time Records JTR - 8413-2
L'Orchestre de chambre de Montréal, Wanda Kaluzny, conductor;
Kenny Wheeler - trumpet & flugelhorn; Tim Brady - solo electric
guitar and electronics. The title piece is a 34-minute piece
for string orchestra and improvisational soloist and features
some of Kenny Wheeler's best recorded solo work. Brady and Wheeler
also play duets and Brady's first major work for guitar and electronics, Electric Waves, appears on this CD.
Other compact
discs featuring the music of Tim Brady
- Triple Riffing - for clarinet, violin and piano - Ensemble Resonance - University of Calgary Records (2010)
- Slow Dances - for clarinet and string quartet - Jean-Guy Boisver (cl.) + Quatuor Bozzini - ATMA Classique ACD2 2552 (2008)
- public space / private
music - for solo tape
(installation) - on "4 X 4 Commissions" CD, limited
edition put out by the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow,
Scotland (2001)
- Quartet 1998 - for saxophone quartet - on self-titled
CD by the group Quasar - les Disques ATMA (2000)
- Waiter, Waiter, Call the
Manager - for big band
- on the self-titled CD by the KAPPA ensemble (1998)
- Trois histoires - Brady's performance of Roche
noire (chronique irlandaise) appears on this recording of
music by composer / guitarist René Lussier - Ambiance
Magnetique 041CD (1996)
- Circling - original version for flute and vibraphone
- on Marie-Josée Simard and Lise Daoust's CD "L'Aube
Enchantée - Enchanted Dawn" - Les Disques Atma ACD22115
(1997)
- Reaching Past - for harpsichord and tape - on Vivienne
Spiteri's "New Music for Harpsichord from Canada and the
Netherlands" - Société nouvelle d'enregistrement
SNE - 542 - CD (1988)
- Changes - for piano, vibraphone and marimba
- on Marie-Josée Simard's self-titled solo CD. SNE 572
- CD (1991)
- Doubling - solo harpsichord version - on Vivienne
Spiteri's "comme si l'hydrogène...the desert speaks"
- J&W CD931 (1993)
Vinyl (no longer available - copies available
on special order only)
- 1987 - Persistence of Vision - Apparition A-0287-7
Tim Brady - solo electric and acoustic guitars, delay devices,
synthesizer
Brady's second solo record increasingly uses electronics to enhance
the compositional aspects of his guitar playing.A digital recording
including a very early use of digital overdubbing using separate
audio feeds to the inputs and outputs of the Sony PCM digital
encoder.
- 1985 - dR.E.aM.s -
Apparition Records A-0485-5
Tim Brady - solo electric and acoustic guitars A combination
of improvised and composed pieces for solo guitars with little
or no electronics or overdubbing. A digital recording.
- 1984 - Music for Solo Piano - Apparition Records A-0984-4
Three contemporary classical works for solo piano composed by
Brady and performed by pianist Marc Widner.
- 1983 - Chalk Paper - C Note Records 831043
Tim Brady - electric & acoustic guitars; Neil Swainson -
bass; Terry Clarke - drums and percussion. A jazz trio recording
of six Brady originals combining contemporary jazz with elements
of free improvisation and more structured compositions.
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