Something new, an EP of material of a different flavour. It’s 4 tracks exploring lots of rhythmic ideas and instrumentation inspired by various parts of the world. Now up on Bandcamp only. Zar by Zar Love0 Share
Category: Releases
New Release – So Below
So Below is a live performance piece for a chapel or resonant space, with the option of using various instruments. It was first performed in 2019 at the Glasgow University Chapel, supported by Cryptic, and with Maarten Vos on cello. The setup is for an array of speakers around the space, with the sound moving… Continue reading New Release – So Below
New Music: Eirini Pt2
This is the second volume of work created from the research into music and sound’s role in healthcare that I conducted as part of an NHS Music Fellowship in 2018. Again, the focus is largely on ambient and beat-less music, that helps induce a state of calm or reflection. One of the few universally measurable… Continue reading New Music: Eirini Pt2
Release – Other World Music Vol.II
Finally available as a digital download, after being on cassette only. Now released under my Alex Smoke moniker, as Alex Menzies will now just be used for commercial work. It’s a combination of ideas from various cultures, from my work on music and health, and from experimenting with acoustic sources and physical modelling. I think… Continue reading Release – Other World Music Vol.II
New Music: Eirini I
The first official result of my last year’s music fellowship with the NHS, exploring the links between health and sound. Of the many fascinating avenues that I explored, this album encapsulates ideas from just a few of them, and is particularly focussed on the use of music as a way of reducing stress. I will… Continue reading New Music: Eirini I
New Album: Other World Music Vol.II
The second volume of my Other World Music series, under my own name, has been released. Again, it draws its influences from various musical traditions and forms and incorporates some of the research of my NHS music fellowship this year. I am just pressing up tapes and releasing them myself although they will also… Continue reading New Album: Other World Music Vol.II
New Album: Other World Music Vol.1
For the last few years I have been working increasingly away from the dancefloor under my own name, and soaking up more varied influences. Other World Music will be a series of albums reflecting my explorations in these new fields, part electronic, part acoustic, and exploring facets of sound and music such as psycho-acoustics, modal… Continue reading New Album: Other World Music Vol.1
New Alex Menzies Website
This year I will be writing and releasing more music as Alex Menzies. Music that is more personal and not so easily categorised. To this end I have a new website dedicated to my composition work under my own name, which will also serve as a hub for new music released this year. There will… Continue reading New Alex Menzies Website
Order Disorder Vinyl
Out today. Limited green vinyl pressing of my Order Disorder score composed for the BBC series of the same name. Includes free mp3 version. Love0 Share
Fool – Mad Man’s Drum [DOWNLOAD]
This is my hip hop album collaboration with Non from the Shadowhuntaz from 2008. Originally penned for release on my Hum+Haw label. It never saw the light of day as we ran out of cash and I lost faith in it a bit. But now enough time has passed that I don’t care, and I’d… Continue reading Fool – Mad Man’s Drum [DOWNLOAD]