Tim Brady / Instruments of Happiness
Imagine Many Guitars

out: September 27, 2024 on Redshift Records (CD/DL—TK550)
genres: modern composition, guitar ensemble, solo guitar

TIM BRADY — WEB
REDSHIFT RECORDS — WEB | BANDCAMP 

Award-winning Montréal-based composer-guitarist Tim Brady has established himself as a singular and crucial figure in contemporary composition. Once hailed by Guitar Player as one of the 30 most important guitarists for the future of the instrument, his vast and varied oeuvre, which encompasses opera, orchestral and chamber pieces as well as various incarnations of his variable-size guitar ensemble Instruments of Happiness has been praised everywhere from Gramophone to the Wire and DownBeat Magazine to New York Times. Just last year, Seth Colter Walls enthused in the latter publication that “a solo guitar symphony might raise some eyebrows, but this 50-minute piece by Canadian composer-performer Tim Brady made me a believer.”

Even if your introduction to Brady’s work is his forthcoming release Imagine Many Guitars, it’s easy to understand how his work elicits applause from such a diverse array of sources. Its four constituent pieces traverse buoyant orchestral lushness to intimate solos and variously explore radiant euphony, meticulous melodic writing and outright textural abstraction primarily through superimposing his own guitar.

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Year-End — Simon Hopkins, An attempt at a kind of 2024 Top 50 Albums list
List — Darryl Sterdan, Next Week in Music | Sept. 23-29 • The Long List: 550 Releases On The Way, Tinnitist
List — September closes with a huge blast!, The Progspace
List/ News — Steve Smith, For The Record (September 27th, 2024)
List/ News — Steve Smith, For The Record (September 20th, 2024)
News — Viva Scene
News — CMC Ontario E-Blast
Article — Lawrence Peryer, Tim Brady Invites You To Imagine Many Guitars, The Tone Arm
Interview — Riccardo Pappaci, Immaginando le molte chitarre di Tim Brady. L’intervista, Sentire Ascoltare
Review/ Feature — Pierre Durr, Focus Canadian Connection, Revue et Corrigée
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Round-up — Gianluca Diana, Gli Ultrasuonati #122, Il Manifesto
Podcast — Different Noises #58
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