The first official result of my last year’s music fellowship with the NHS, exploring the links between health and sound. Of the many fascinating avenues that I explored, this album encapsulates ideas from just a few of them, and is…
New album of music inspired by various musical traditions and ideas. There’s no doubt that the period of musical creativity at the end of the 1960s has also fed in there. Tape only at present.
For the last few years I have been working increasingly away from the dancefloor under my own name, and soaking up more varied influences. Other World Music will be a series of albums reflecting my explorations in these new fields,…
A new composition for Scottish Ballet’s ‘Haud Close Tae Me’ set to a poem by Scotland’s Makar Jackie Kay, choreographed by Artistic Director Christopher Hampson, and directed by Eve McConnachie. Watch it below
The last year has represented a shift in focus in my music making, and this is the first tangible result. I’m releasing it myself on my new imprint of the same name (OWM) and it will be followed by another volume…
Recently commissioned by SSE and music therapy charity Nordoff-Robbins, ‘Seven Rare Deems’ is a piece created from recordings of music therapy sessions at Aberdeen’s Alzheimer Scotland Centre. It incorporates voice, piano, kalimba, chimes and xylophone played by the six women in…
The score for Sophie Laplane’s ‘Sibilo’, commissioned by Scottish Ballet, is now available from Kathexis. An alternate version of the ‘Prologue’ is also here as a free download, and is the version actually used in the final dance piece: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qhjwpcebinkwq8e/SIBILO%20-%20Prologue%20%28BONUS%20VERSION%29.aif?dl=0
Originally composed for the BBC4 documentary of the same name, the score is now getting a full release on Ricardo Donoso’s Kathexis label. Out on June 10th You can preview a few snippets over at Resident Advisor.
Available on very limited green vinyl as of yesterday. My Order Disorder score composed for the BBC series of the same name. Includes free mp3 version. http://boomkat.com/vinyl/1257484-alex-menzies-order-disorder and (for US) http://www.kathexis.org/#!store/cuaz
Coming out this month is the score I wrote for the BBC’s Order & Disorder programme in 2012, now getting a release through Ricardo Donoso’s new Kathexis imprint. It’s under my real name and is released on 24th April. You…