Angharad Davies
Meshes Of The Evening
"The beauty and power of Meshes of the Evening doesn’t come from isolated passages or specific exchanges, no matter how exciting and satisfying they may be. What has riveted me each time I’ve listened to the music is how Davies and Beins occupy a sin…
Unlockings
John Butcher is interested in particular people and their personalities. He prefers not to work in a generic situation, where there's an agreement in advance to play a certain kind of thing, and the music cannot swerve in a sudden fresh direction.
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Lower Marsh
The record can be considered a sort of farewell note to one of London’s most crucial venues for improvised music and sound art after its unexpected closure in late 2023 due to gentrification. John Butcher had previously collaborated with these three …
Endspace
Duo improvisations recorded at Goldsmiths College, London, July 2007. Angharad Davies (violin) and Tisha Mukarji (inside piano) - two of the most distinctive young improvisers on the UK scene - unite for their first recording as a duo. An entirely ac…
Neutral Red
"I asked Angharad Davies and Phil Julian to play together because I thought they shared a certain sensibility: there’s a stillness or slowness to what they do, but while the surface may appear smooth there’s intense pressure and powerful currents chu…
Unfurling
Unfurling introduces a trio where established voices in contemporary experimental music - Angharad Davies, Klaus Lang, and Anton Lukoszevieze - are brought together in an environment shaped as much by deep listening as by compositional foresight. Bor…
Awirë
awirë stands as a luminous act of collective listening and minimalism, conceived by Cyril Bondi, Pierre-Yves Martel, and Christoph Schiller - veterans of exploratory small-group improvisation - and further energized by the searching violin of Anghara…
Dethick
In Dethick, three singular voices - Angharad Davies (violin), Rie Nakajima (sound objects), and Alice Purton (cello) - trace the edges of collective improvisation and material inquiry. The project began from a shared fascination with resonance: how c…
Ffansïon | Fancies
Ffansion | Fancies, voted one of the year’s best albums by BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, documents the rare rapport between Welsh violinist Angharad Davies and Berlin-based pianist Tisha Mukarji. Realized as part of Another Timbre’s “Violin +1” series…
Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths gathers a distinguished sextet into an evocative session at St James Hatcham Church, South London: John Tilbury (piano), Angharad Davies and Lina Lapelyte (violins, Lapelyte also on voice), Michael Duch (double bass), John Lely (objects, e…
Pluie Fine
Angharad Davies (violin) and duo Cremaster consisting of Alfredo Costa Monteiro (electro-acoustic devices, speakers, electric guitar) and Ferran Fages (feedback mixing board, electro-acoustic devices). Composed, recorded and assembled between sep…
AD
A duo encounter between two of the most distinctive voices in European improvised music: Welsh violinist Angharad Davies and German trumpeter Axel Dörner. Recorded in December 2008 at a West London house, A.D. documents an intimate meeting between tw…