QUIETUDE - Alastair Penman
Released 2024 on Meadowbank Music.
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“The recorded sound and all the playing on this CD is superb”
Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain
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"...a broad range of talents, a meticulous attention to detail and a very personal endeavour...it is a project that reaches out and touches us all"
mfiles.co.uk
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In the frantic world we live in, there are ever fewer opportunities to embrace peace and tranquillity and enjoy the natural world around us. This album invites the listener to take time for themself, to unplug from the digital world that we live in and to find solace in the beauty of music and of nature.
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Discography
Solo/Chamber
SOAR - Alastair Penman & Jonathan Pease
Released 2023 on Meadowbank Music
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"This performance easily rivals any other in terms of technical mastery, interpretation and ensemble" -
Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain
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"...the album as a whole feels like an extended dazzling display of talent" - mfiles.co.uk
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"...an engaging and eclectic selection of pieces that makes a lovely disc to dip into" - Planet Hugill
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Alastair Penman (saxophone) and Jonathan Pease (piano) debut release brings together favourites from the saxophone repertoire alongside newer works. All of the pieces are drawn together by their use of melody and the way they allow the saxophone to sing, soaring over the landscape created by the piano.
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Find out more and get your copy at https://www.alastairpenman.co.uk/soar
DO YOU HEAR ME? - Alastair Penman
Released 2020 on Sospiro Records, produced by John Harle.
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"Damn good music" - Planet Hugill
"A superb mix of sounds" - Nicolas Prost
"Groundbreaking in many ways" - Dawkes Music
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Original compositions by Alastair fusing saxophone and electronics and highlighting the climate emergency.
50% of proceeds donated to charities fighting climate change.
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Find out more at doyouhearme.info
Preview on YouTube
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Listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music
ELECTRIC DAWN - Alastair Penman
Released 2015 on Sospiro Records, produced by John Harle.
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"An accomplished, outstanding album. Highly recommended" - Sandy Brown Jazz
"The playing is poised the precise and the sounds are creative and imaginative" - CASS Magazine
"Surpassingly beautiful music" - Peter Fay
"a wonderfully eclectic mix of genres, moods, instrumentation and effects" - mfiles.co.uk
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A mix of original compositions and arrangements by Alastair as well as new pieces by Jenni Watson, Geoff Sheil and Daniel Harle.
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Buy from Proper Music, Amazon
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music
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THE NORTH - Borealis Saxophone Quartet
Released 2014 on Borealis Records. Produced by Rob Buckland.
Alastair Penman - soprano/alto saxophone
Mélina Zéléniuc - alto/soprano saxophone
Gillian Blair - tenor/soprano saxophone
Daniel White - baritone/soprano saxophone
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"The music here is wonderfully varied, full-blooded and often rather edgy" - Planet Hugill
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The debut album by the Borealis Saxophone Quartet.
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Preview on YouTube
Purchase here
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music
PUZZLE BOOK
Mark Bowler & Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet
Released 2019 on One Glass Eye records
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Recording of Mark Bowler's Puzzle Book by the Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet.
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Listen on Bandcamp
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THE JOHN HARLE COLLECTION
Released 2020 on Sospiro Records
Alastair was honoured to be invited to record a track on this epic collection of the music of John Harle. Alastair plays sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones on The Little Death Machine (Track 10, Volume 13).
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WINDS FROM THE NORTH WEST
Compositions for wind by David Beck, David Ellis and David Forshaw.
Released 2013 on Prima Facie.
Alastair plays soprano and tenor saxophones with the Borealis Saxophone Quartet on Two for Six by David Ellis.
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