Four BBT artists  - pianist Martin Helmchen, violinist Alina Ibravimova, violist Antoine Tamestit and cellist Christian Poltéra - were joined by double-bassist Luis Cabrera for this special studio recording of Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet first released on a BBC Music Magazine Covermount CD in 2006 .

Schubert Piano Quintet in A Op 114 D667 Trout i Allegro vivace

Schubert Piano Quintet in A Op 114 D667 Trout v Finale. Allegro giusto

Schubert Piano Quintet in A Op 114 D667 Trout ii Andante

'after twenty-two beats the sun explodes' is inspired by the 2019 adventure game Outer Wilds, which is based around a 22 minute time loop in which the player must solve puzzles in order to reveal the history and mechanics of the game world before the sun explodes and everything resets. This piece takes the idea of a constantly resetting cycle within the same space to explore a ten note melody before a sudden
moment of silence; however, this melody is only played in its entirety in the final cycle of the piece, with the musical material of the work being built from fragments that try to realise the greater whole. Following this ‘discovery’ of the real melody, the piece takes a sudden shift into a pitch from outside the melodic line, marking a change from the cycles that have become familiar.

This piece was premiered by the Octandre Ensemble

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Violin - Rowena Kennally
Double Bass - Rosie Moon

after twenty-two beats the sun explodes

Versions of You takes a single track and fractures it into fourteen alternate Quantum me worlds — each one revealing a different shape the story could take if the moment, the mood, or the narrator were just a degree to the left.

From glitch-folk confessions to neon-lit electro-soul, from whispered ASMR heartbreak to full-throttle trap, each version is its own universe: new chord colours, new emotional physics, new versions of the same truth. Some tracks feel intimate enough to touch; others feel like they’re broadcast from a future where your memories have been remixed without permission.

What stays the same is the centre of gravity, the ache and loss at the centre of the song about the love wearing out.

Whether you start at Version 1 or jump into the deep end at Version 14, each track refracts the same lyric through a different lens — digital, human, nostalgic, brutal, ecstatic, quiet, cinematic. Over the full album, the song becomes a prism: turn it once, you hear longing; turn it again, you hear defiance; turn it again, you hear relief.

This is not a remix album.
It’s a mirror maze.
And every reflection is a version of you.

Versions of you v6.1

I am fucking losing my mind..

God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman - arranged for an atypical brass quintet consisting of piccolo trumpet, trumpet/flugelhorn, horn in F, bass/tenor trombone and double bass/acoustic electric double bass.  

This recording was captured by a now defunct quintet,  "The Power of Friendship"  that I was once a member of back in December of 2024.   

God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman - for atypical brass quintet (2024)

Hark!  The Herald Angels Sing - arranged for an atypical brass quintet consisting of piccolo trumpet, trumpet/flugelhorn, horn in F, bass/tenor trombone and double bass/acoustic electric double bass.  

This recording was captured by a now defunct quintet,  "The Power of Friendship"  that I was once a member of back in December of 2024.   

Hark!  The Herald Angels Sing - for atypical brass quintet

Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer  - arranged for an atypical brass quintet consisting of piccolo trumpet, trumpet/flugelhorn, horn in F, bass/tenor trombone and double bass/acoustic electric double bass.  

This recording was captured by a now defunct quintet,  "The Power of Friendship"  that I was once a member of back in December of 2024.   

Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer - for atypical brass quintet

smooth night

Music Theorist - Composer - Arranger - Audiophile - Teacher - Multidisciplinary Enthusiast

Composer from Brighouse, West Yorkshire. PhD student at the University of York 

Ever feel like you've been playing quantum leap in your own life?

New tracks tagged #DOUBLE BASS