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Blue Chew Cheerio Earpiece



Album draft 2023 My 4th  album of work or some of my most recent (2022-2023) pieces. They have been programed at: MearzeMusik, Berlin Festival,  Bang On a Can Long Play Festival , Klangspruren Festival, Aldebrough Festival Label La Suise Festival,
By ensmebles: London Sinfionetta, Klangforum Wien (AT), Riot Ensemble (UK), Nouvel Contemporain Ensemble (CH), Dreammusics Ensemble (UK)


“an opportunity to revisit that early life carnival of sensation, to suspend the imperatives of orderly and goal-orientated progress and luxuriate in immediacy...wild imaginings...Paxton forges structures that miraculously hold together, while threatening constantly to burst apart from the sheer exuberance of his tempestuous orchestration...the orchestra seem to skip, hop or spin as the mood of the instant demands....melodic fragments flitter like incidental patterns forming across the brilliantly tinted surface of a swarming continuum....conceptually sophisticated as well as irrepressible in spirit.” the Wire (Happy Music for Orchestra Review)


tracks 1. Carpig 8” Keyboards & electronics. 
tracks2-9. Blue Chew Cheerio Earpiece 32.31” 10 players & electronics (Riot Ensemble)
tracks10-20. Candyfolk Space Drum 31.30”London Sinfionetta, Electronics, Children’s Choir, Jazz Drummer

(tbc)

tracks 21. Pull Backhat Biome Dunk 4.31”Symphony Orchestra Alex Paxton + Jennifer Walsh


Total 70/74 mins

“In a dark, time this music will make you smile...This is the most joyous sound I’ve heard in ages!”
New York Times

“Paxton is a Magician of Sound.
classical-jazz sonic blasts ...violently overwhelming...I was seduced, and am not the only one
...digesting Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five band recordings, John Zorn’s Downtown experimentalism, Harrison Birtwistle’s brash blocks of sound, music of the Celtic oral tradition, Hildegard von Bingen’s medieval chants — and it all comes out, sometimes at once...carefully constructed ...forbiddingly dense it is balanced by its playfulness... hyperkinetic rainbow-hued...its joy and freedom.”
Financial Times (Happy Music for Orchestra Feature)

1. Car-Pig

Electonics and keyabord.
NEW STUDIO RECORDING COMING SOON: by Zubin Kanga



2-9. Blue Chew Cheerio Earpiece published by Ricordi

11 players, jazz/improvising soloist & electronics 32.31”
Studio recording: Riot Ensemble, Dreamusics Ensemble & Alex Paxton (soloist)
Flutes, Sax, Oboe, Clarinet, Trumpet, Trombone, 2 Perc, 2Keys, Double Bass

“a Brit who defies every conceivable genre boundary…an extremely modern and future-oriented style.”
Paul Hindemith Prize winner 2023
Commissioned by MearzMusik, Berlin Festival, Riot Ensemble, Aaron Nayhum-Holloway Performances: MearzMusik, Berlin Festival, Riot Ensemble  1.03.2023 (DE)

tbc: Bang On a Can Long Play Festival 2024 (USA)

draft mixes

2. YOUR TONGUE (Blue Chew Cheerio Earpiece)
3. Death Throw Frozen Still Nipple Legs (Blue Chew Cheerio Earpiece)
4. Breath Smells Nice (Blue Chew Cheerio Earpiece)
5. Doggy Chew-toy Tune (Blue Chew Cheerio Earpiece)
6. YOUR MOM Still Laughin’ (Blue Chew Cheerio Earpiece)
7. Birthday Balloon Let-go (Blue Chew Cheerio Earpiece)
8. Commuters in a Lightbulb (Blue Chew Cheerio Earpiece)
9. Frank Bowling’s Christmas trip to and from Brighton (Blue Chew Cheerio Earpiece)

Strike and Blow, stoking electrical and other bits of sciencefact to keep YOUR FEET

improvising continuously intensive details. Improvements. Biological fiction. Still…you gotta keep moving aintcha? *(Lipsmacks)* Guts pulled at gibet, 1st swimming lesson. Drones hold their entrails runin’ all over the bloody place - batty. Tiny scales on the window sill boiled in death-throw-frozen-still nipple-legs PLEEEASE maybe a trade for something better still, here’s to hopin’, metamorphy and maybe some soul-transmigrationary sewn on broadsheetglossy-stuffed tights or…better still…jam today jam today jam today jam today…smells well bad but feels good held against YOUR TONGUE sizzles popping-candy chocolate spangles. Trying new things: midi-fresco tattoo meanly stained on mid an.alBUM didn’t know YOUR LOVER wanted until it flows, wept into the sheets. Bosch machine spinnin’on extrahot EP heartsichord in concert with…oh!…and that nice fuzzy YOUR-MOM-still-laughin’ feelin’ streamin’ Ye olde-sitcom song…just when you thought you’d get round to the washingup then damn n blast your goggly eyes, its pudding time again! Steamed.


10. Candyfolk Space Drum

6 players, jazz drummer, children’s choir. Electronics.
Studio recording by London Sinfioinetta, Aga Serugo-lugo, Primary school choir. Jazz Drums.
Commissioned by London Sinfionetta

10. Space Drum (Candyfolk Space-Drum)

London Sinfionetta

 11. Magic Science (Candyfolk Space-Drum)

London Sinfionetta & Children

 12. Even Me Mom Dont Know (Candyfolk Space-Drum)

London Sinfionetta & Children

 13. Nice Relaxing Garden Trumpet (Candyfolk Space-Drum)

London Sinfionetta & Children

 14. I Know, You Need Help (Candyfolk Space-Drum)

London Sinfionetta & Children

 15. I Like it (Candyfolk Space-Drum)

London Sinfionetta & Children

 16. Eye Dance (Candyfolk Space-Drum)

London Sinfionetta

 17. Ice Cream Green Screen (Candyfolk Space-Drum)

London Sinfionetta

 18. Space Elevator  (Candyfolk Space-Drum)

London Sinfionetta

 19. Shake up Drum (Candyfolk Space-Drum)

London Sinfionetta & Children

 20. Wind and Rain and Other types of song (Candyfolk Space-Drum)

London Sinfionetta & Children
live video

21. Pullback Hat Biome Dunk 

4” Symphony Orchestra + 2 solo improvisers

NEW STUDIO RECORDING COMING SOON. Dreammusics Symphony Orchestra  + Jennifer Walsh + Alex Paxton


“not only was extraordinary musically, but brought diverse communities together in ways that exemplified a new, creolized identity for classical music. Alex’s vision of new music could help to transform classical music into a true world music.”  
George Lewis on Candyfolk Space-Drum





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Potential Album Art by Alex Paxton (I am also considering comisioning)




draft artwork: by Alex Paxton