Martin Archer & Claire McAllister
Release Date: 03 April 2026
Label: Discus Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5051078025025
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Martin Archer is best known for his long running collaboration with Julie Tippetts, producing a run of five diverse and experimental releases between 2009 and 2022. Claire McAllister is a jazz singer, composer and organiser based in the south of England whose talents are showcased most recently in her own Caminos album.
The first song cycle collaboration by this new partnership is a highly adventurous and ambitious work, and one which explores a journey through dark places expressed in an improvisation-based language of strange sounds and textures, plus some unexpected left turns into electronic and choral music, before emerging from the woodland and into the morning light. A wide palette of strings, woodwinds, percussion and electronics is used to weave a highly individual musical spell designed to intrigue and entrance listeners.
Martin Archer: woodwind, organ, electronics, arranger
Claire McAllister: voice, words
Jan Todd: harps, tagelharpa, cello, electronics
Yvonna Magda: violin, electronics
Laura Cole: electric piano and grand piano interior
Richard Jackson: percussion
Graham South: trumpet
Nathan Bettany: oboe
Alicia Gardener-Trejo: flutes
Duncan Goddard: keys and sequencer
Gary Houghton: electric guitar
Steve Dinsdale: keys and sequencer
Nick Robinson: acoustic and electric guitars
Chris Warburton: bass guitar
Joseph Shaw: alto/tenor & choirmaster
Samuel Beagles: bass
Emily Atkinson, Althea Tinker: soprano
Tracklisting
Army Of Briars
Keith Tippett & Matthew Bourne
Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall
Theo May's Odd Unit
Keith Tippett
Charlotte Keeffe
Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis
Keith & Julie Tippett - Couple In Spirit
Gretchen Parlato
Trio Ivoire (Hans Ludemann, Aly Keita & Christian Thome)
Oregon
His 'n' Hers (Judith O'Higgins & Dave O'Higgins)
Matthias Bublath
uroboro
Richard Spaven
Jim Snidero
