Birmingham Record Company

11/02/2025

🎶🍭 Birmingham Record Company's 24th release, TOO MANY SWEETS by Benjamin Oliver, reviewed by Neil Luck in TEMPO Journal For New Music! 🍭🎶

"Too Many Sweets collects five recent pieces by composer Ben Oliver, for live musicians and electronics. All the works on the disc are fully composed, but play with genre references from popular music, jazz (in its broadest most voracious understanding) and video game-esque 8-bit electronic sounds (these elements are co-designed with composer Blake Troise, aka Protodome).

What’s most idiosyncratic and beguiling about Oliver’s music is how these elements coexist and fuse in a genuinely complex DNA. The rigour and intricacy with which Oliver manages these materials result in a thrillingly unpredictable and destabilising musical language."

You can buy TOO MANY SWEETS here: https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/benjamin-oliver-too-many-sweets

You can read the full review here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/tempo/article/abs/ben-oliver-ben-oliver-too-many-sweets-perinpanayagam-ensemble-saxologie-williams-riot-ensemble-chan-shanahan-troise-birmingham-record-company-brc024/221D0B306C6406D292A7E735563AE119

16/11/2024

16/11/2024

OUT TODAY: Jamie Savan: The Polyphonic Cornett

The Polyphonic Cornett augments a Renaissance wind instrument with live electronics to give it a capability our forebears would have thought akin to magic: the ability to conjure polyphonic textures from a single melodic line.

Listen now: https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/collections/new-releases-2024/products/jamie-savan-the-polyphonic-cornett

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26/07/2024

21/06/2024

Listen to content by ARCO and Chihiro Ono.

15/05/2024

check out this review of one of our recent releases

ICYMI: Revealing the Thinking Behind the Music: Seán Clancy's 'Four Sections of Music Unequally Divided' https://ow.ly/Pj6A50RGPNu

Composer Seán Clancy recently released a recording of 'Four Sections of Music Unequally Divided' on the Birmingham Record Company label. James Camien McGuiggan reviews.

07/05/2024

Joe Cutler’s opera ‘Sonata for Broken Fingers’ premieres with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in Birmingham.

30/04/2024

The meaning of music in a terrifying world: BCMG to premiere Joe Cutler and Max Hoehn's opera Sonata for Broken Fingers

29/04/2024

Read this detailed and generous review of Seán Clancy's 'four sections of music unequally divided'

// Revealing the Thinking Behind the Music: Seán Clancy's 'Four Sections of Music Unequally Divided' // https://ow.ly/IgPn50RqWHq

Composer Seán Clancy has just released a recording of 'Four Sections of Music Unequally Divided' on the Birmingham Record Company label. James Camien McGuiggan reviews.

27/04/2024

// Revealing the Thinking Behind the Music: Seán Clancy's 'Four Sections of Music Unequally Divided' // https://ow.ly/AQNb50RptRc

Composer Seán Clancy has just released a new album on the Birmingham Record Company label. James Camien McGuiggan reviews.

26/04/2024

TOO MANY SWEETS by Benjamin Oliver is out TODAY!

20/04/2024

read all about our upcoming release here, from Benjamin Oliver

Published: 17 April 2024 Southampton researchers created a text generator, LovelaceGPT, that produces quirky love letters which are then set to music.The resulting music compilation, Love Letters, was performed in London and Southampton by British soul sensation Hannah Williams, a vocal coach at the...

29/03/2024

📢 Released 29 March by our distributed label Birmingham Record Company - 'Four Sections of Music Unequally Divided' by Seán Clancy

A single, hypnotic, 44-minute piece in which athletic piano playing meets analogue synthesizers and deconstructed gamelan, all played by Seán.

"Think of it as soundwaves served 4 ways."

Pre-save here: https://birminghamrecordcompany.lnk.to/4SofED

27/03/2024

Seán Clancy, composer of music described as "equal part sacred, seductive and superficial" (TEMPO), releases his new album 'four sections of music unequally divided' on FRIDAY 29 MARCH

/// pre-order here https://seanclancy.bandcamp.com/album/four-sections-of-music-unequally-divided

/// more info here https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/sean-clancy-four-sections-of-music-unequally-divided

/// online launch party https://seanclancy.bandcamp.com/merch/four-sections-of-music-unequally-divided-listening-party | Royal Birmingham Conservatoire NMC Recordings University College Dublin