Label: Another Timbre

AMMの一員である英フリーインプロヴィゼーション界の重鎮Eddie Prevost主宰のMatchless Recordingsから2001年にデビュー、その後10年以上の間をあけてAnother Timbreから3タイトルをリリースする事となる、Apartment Houseのメンバーにして興味深いサウンドアート的アプローチにも取り組む作曲家John Lely。初となるソロ名義作が遂にリリース！！弦楽四重奏、ピアノ作品、そしてなんとソロ電子音楽までを披露しており、そのハードコア且つスローで掴み所のない構造にグイグイと引き込まれます。







Sublime string quartets, piano works, and a short piece for electronics.

"The music of John Lely has run a continuous thread through the programmes of Apartment House for some 20 years. A subtle, yet sinuous presence, producing music that has a quiet yet significant sounding air about it. Lely’s titles of his works are ambiguous, yet point to hidden constructs and origins, Pale Signal, Meander Section or Karnaugh Quartets for example. Ambiguous perhaps, but revealing music of great clarity and an etched beauty. The harmonic worlds sound familiar, yet redolent of some hidden, subliminal place, like a photograph by Luigi Ghirri or Eugene Atget. As I wrote that previous sentence the Giacometti sculpture ‘The Palace at 4am’ (1932) popped into my mind’s eye. Lely’s music is there and so are we, listening, eternally." - Anton Lukoszevieze