Magnus Granberg

Two Contrasting Albums on Another Timbre?

by John Eyles
February 21, 2025

On the surface, the latest batch of releases from the Another Timbre label looks pretty much as expected, with each sleeve having the label's usual front cover format of a monochrome photograph of a landscape or work of art beneath which is printed the composer's name beneath which the album title beneath which the performers' names. ...

Holde Traume, kehret wieder!

By Magnus Granberg

Label: Another Timbre
Released: 2024
Track listing: Version for quartet, played by Nattens inbrott; Version for septet, played by Skogen.

Magnus Granberg: Holde Traume, kehret wieder!

by John Eyles
July 21, 2024

When Swedish musician and composer Magnus Granberg's first album on Another Timbre, Ist Gefallen In Den Schnee, was released in 2012, it was credited to Skogen, the nine-(or seven-or ten-) member ensemble in which he played piano (prepared or not) and/or clarinet. It was not until his fifth release on the label, How Deep is the ...

American Composers On Another Timbre

by John Eyles
April 6, 2024

When the batch of four Another Timbre releases came out in February 2024, one aspect was particularly noticeable; of the four, two albums featured composers who were born in the U.S.A. and still reside there, Nomi Epstein and Paul Paccione. Although the label honored deceased American composers John Cage and Morton Feldman with highly-praised box sets, ...

Evening Star, Vesper Bell

By Magnus Granberg

Label: Another Timbre
Released: 2023
Track listing: Evening Star, Vesper Bell (2022)

Evening Star, Vesper Bell

By Magnus Granberg

Label: Another Timbre
Released: 2023
Track listing: Evening Star, Vesper Bell (2022)

Magnus Granberg: Evening Star, Vesper Bell

by John Eyles
June 3, 2023

This album is the tenth on Another Timbre (AT) featuring Magnus Granberg's music, making him the composer who has appeared most often on the label, his first release having been Ist gefallen in den Schnee in 2012. Ironically, Evening Star, Vesper Bell also marks the first time Granberg has recorded with Apartment House, who have practically ...

How Lonely Sits the City? (version for quartet)

By Magnus Granberg

Label: Meenna
Released: 2022
Track listing: How Lonely Sits the City? (version for quartet)

Magnus Granberg: How Lonely Sits the City? (version for quartet)

by John Eyles
October 30, 2022

In 2020 the Japanese Meenna label took the unprecedented step of releasing two different versions of Magnus Granberg's composition Come Down to Earth Where Sorrow Dwelleth within months of one another, the first performed by the American quartet Ordinary Affects, the second by a Japanese quartet of sho, koto, prepared piano and no-input mixing board; both ...