Alex Paxton

Alex Paxton – Alex Paxton: Happy Music for Orchestra (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:26 minutes | 509 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records

‘In every moment of the piece’, says Alex Paxton, ‘I’m asking myself what is the most sonically sensual thing that can happen here, and here, and here.’ The result, from a multi-award-winning composer described as ‘unique, inventive, brave and arresting’, is an album of joyful music performed by orchestra, ensemble and improvisers.

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Alex Paxton – Music for Bosch People (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:49 minutes | 487 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Birmingham Record Company

Award-winning composer, improvising-trombonist and bandleader Alex Paxton describes Music for Bosch People like this:

‘It’s like minimal but loads more notes like video-games but with more song like jazz but much more gay like old music but more current like yummy sweet but more stick like paint but more scratch like tapestry but filthily like prayer but more loud like loud groove and more rude like fingers and faces too but somehow more smelly like smelly things cooking with more chew and change like louder prayers that groove with like stinking-hot-pink in poo-brown but even more desperate-like than that like drums and Dream Musics…’
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