Alex Paxton - ilolli-pop [CD]

nonclassical

£10.80

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: NONCLSS054
Barcode: 5050580786295
Release Date: 14 Oct 2022
Genre: Electronic

"I'm just trying to make the most sonically sensuous, magic sound-stuff-thing that I can." Alex Paxton

ilolli-pop is the second album by prolific composer and trombonist-improviserAlex Paxton. The release is a collage of Paxton's commission for Ensemble Modern(Germany), Nevis Ensemble (Scotland) andHyper Duo (Switzerland). The album is joyous, playful, often loud and maximal, yet always carefully composed. It combines both improvisation and triumphant melodies, and alternates between solo trombone, percussion duos, electronics and orchestra.

“Highly innovative, exceptional creative imagination and musical energy, packed with life force, unlike anything else”
— The Ivor Novello, British Composer Award winner 2021

“Paxton’s trombone seems to transmute a scrambled range of human speech, reflecting something of the frenetic and fragmentary form of contemporary discourse [...] He eats idioms for breakfast. That’s why his music is so sweet and so strange. Gone is any agonised avoidance of clichés or calculated coolness. In its place is a riotous, hot pink overabundance of love and rage [...] music grounded in the solid content of sentiment and spiralled through a stratosphere of forms. It’s frank and vibrational, emotional and dizzying. It links up “what is direct with what is advanced” (Amiri Baraka). It’s bizarrely moving music—go and hear it.”
— The Wire (Alex Paxton - 45 minute improvised Trombone Solo performance at Uk Mex

“Really quirky, fun, dynamic…Wow! gives your senses a bit of shake. I tell you, I had to listen a number of times, absolutely terrific.”
James McDougall — BBC Radio 3 (after playing Corn-Crack Dreams)

“Fantastic delirium”
Tom Service — New Music Show (BBC) - Sometimes Voices

“the crazy ilolli-pop – something between cartoon music, free jazz and contemporary classical music”
— Gaudeamus Festival