Stephanie Lamprea, soprano
James Banner, double bass

Sound Festival
Anatomy Rooms
Aberdeen, Scotland
October 24, 2021

the surface of the night [2020] – Stephanie Lamprea & James Banner

Fall from grace was originally commissioned for Sound Festival 2017 and scored for bassoon choir, voice track & drone track. It was given a new iteration by James Banner (double bass) & Stephanie Lamprea (soprano) for Sound Festival 2021. Here is the live room recording from the performance at The Anatomy Rooms in Aberdeen in October.

Fall From Grace  (2021) (live Room Recording)

"Nature Is In Freefall"
composed by Georgina MacDonell Finlayson

Stephanie Lamprea, soprano
James Banner, double bass

Sound Scotland
2021 soundfestival
24 October 2021
Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen

Georgina MacDonell Finlayson - Nature Is In Freefall

for soprano (with bells) and double bass
text from agnes martin (used with permission)
live recording of premiere performance
stephanie lamprea : james banner duo
the old hairdresser's, glasgow
8.6.2022
recorded and mixed by james banner

lines going this way and lines going that way

excerpts from:

The Rungs Keep Moving
Pyramid of Capitalist System

Friede Merz - voice/electronics
Rylan Gleave - voice
Angelika Niescier - alto saxophone
Megan Jowett - viola
Nick Dunston - bass/sampler/radio
James Banner - bass/electronics/samples/composition

Commissioned for the 46th edition of Leipziger Jazztage, class-work cross pollinates a condemnatory metal and punk aesthetic with an ensemble of soloists drawn from the European improvised and contemporary music scenes. The music speaks self-reflectively about the impacts of our working class origin stories on daily life and social mobility, through investigation into poverty safari, cultural hegemony, intergenerational self and class identities, (food) guilt, personal joy and suffering, whilst words are drawn from the ensemble members, their families, social media and political commentators. The result is "an enrichment and a meaningful contribution to the class question. A topic that is far too underexposed for its always constant, painful relevance". [Tim Mettke]

Review by Tim Mettke: www.jazzclub-leipzig.de/kategorie-jaz…oo-am-safari/

(class-work premiered 25.10.2022. at Moritzbastei, Leipzig, and was recorded by Martin Ruch, release to follow. n.b. Marietheres Schneider was replaced by Friede Merz for the premiere)

photo by Lukas Diller

class-work

Performed at the RCM on the 20th March 2014 by Chema Bañuls, Martino Panizza, Harry Cameron Penny, Aisha Orazbayeva, Jenny Alexander and Gregor Riddell. Conducted by James Murray.

Chosen Rounds

oct-dec ’17
written for Plus-Minus
ded. to Bryn Harrison, Amber Priestley, Sergei Zagny, Laurence Crane;
Matthew Shlomowitz & Plus-Minus

studio recording
Irine Røsnes (vln), Colin Frank (pc), me (kbd/guitar)

1. 0:00   2. 2:21   3. 7:41   4. 16:28

fp was given by Mark Knoop, Tom Pauwels, Serge Vuille & Kasia Ziminska @ City University

art (clockwise from top left): Joseph Albers — Study for Homage to the Square, 1967; Homage to the Square: SP–IV, 1967; Untitled (from Homage au Carré portfolio), 1965; Homage to the Square: Starting, 1968.

Set of four

Saxophones - Josh Schofield, Olga Amelchenko, Marc Doffey, Julius Gawlik, Ole Sinell
Trumpets - Florian Menzel, Dima Bondarev, Lisa Buchholz, Konstantin Doeben
Trombones - Jan Landowski, Laurits Qwist Bilén, Rasmus Holm, Marleen Dahms
Piano - Julius Windisch
Bass - James Banner
Drums - Johannes Metzger
Solo - Julius Gawlik
Compostion/Arrangement/Leitung - Tom Niblock
Recorded by Christph Undisz at JIB Berlin 11.02.19
Mix/Mastering - Olly Sansom

P.V. '18

Recorded live (Berlin 22.11.18) Aired on RBB kulturradio (02.19)

Ayse Cansu Tanrikulu - voc/comp
Elias Stemeseder - piano/synth/comp
Liz Kosack - piano/synth
Arne Braun - guitar
James Banner - db/ e bass
Philip Dornbusch - drums

Soloist Prize Concert (Live in Berlin 22.11.18)

Two Rivers Concert Band - Concertino for Concert Band (excerpts)- James Banner

Elias Stemeseder - piano
Mike Majkowski - bass
Max Andrzejewski - drums

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