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- Sept. 2024 - Imagine Many Guitars - Tim
Brady - composition, guitars / text (Sym. #11) - Ian Ferrier /
Voices (Sym. #11): Bronwyn Thies-Thompson, Janelle Lucyk,
Sarah Albu, Marie-Annick Béliveau. Redshift Records TK550
- April 2023 - Symphony in 18 Parts for solo electric
guitar - Tim Brady - composition/guitar/electronic
FX: Starkland Records ST-237
- April 2022 - Slow, Quiet Music in Search of
Electric Happiness - Instruments of Happiness
Electric guitar quartet music by: Louise Campbell, Rose
Bolton, Andrew Noseworthy, Andrew Staniland. Redshift Records
TK497
- April 2021 - Triple CD - Actions Speak Louder
- Tim Brady
Act 1 - Solos and a Quartet (w/Instruments of
Happiness)
Act 2 - Triple Concerto: Because Everything Has Changed
Of Sound, Mind and Body - Tim Brady, Shawn Mativetsky (tabla,
percussion), Helmut Lipsky (violon) - concerto for 3
improvisers and virtual orchestra
Act 3 - Voices: Revolutionary Songs / As It Happened
Bradyworks / Mirror Image Vocal Ensemble
Redshift Records TK486, 487, 489
- April 2019 - The Happiness Handbook
Instruments of Happiness - electric guitar quartet
Music by: Scott Godin, Tim Brady, Maxime McKinley, Jordan
Nobles, Gordon Fitzell et Emily Hall
Winner: Prix OPUS 2020 - best album
- musique actuelle/éléctroactoustique
- September 2018 - Music For Large Ensemble
- Starkland Records
"Désir: concerto for electric guitar and large ensemble",
"Eight songs about: Symphony #7"
Music by Tim Brady. Bradyworks ensemble with Tim Brady (solo
- electric guitar), Vincent Ranaollo and Sarah Albu (voices) -
Starkland Records
Nominated: Prix Opus 2020 - best
album - modern/contemporary
- January 2018 - New Orford String Quartet: Par quatre
chemins
"String quartet #2: Journal" - by Tim Brady, plus quartets by
F. Dompierre and
I. Ichmaouratov - ATMA Classique
- March 2016 - Instruments of Happiness: electric
guitar quartet
New chamber music for electric guitars with works by Tim
Brady, Antoine Berthiaume and Rainer Wiens. Guitarists: Tim
Brady, Gary Schwartz, Michel Héroux, Antoine Berthiaume -
Starkland Records - ST-224
- Feb. 2016 - Of Sound, Mind and Body: Concert #3: Le
Gesù
Improvised music ensemble with Tim Brady (el.
gtr.+electronics), Shawn Mativetsky (tabla+percussion), Helmut
Lipsky (violin) and guest Gabriel Dharmoo (voice) - Redshift
Records TK466
- Sept. 2015 - The How and the Why of Memory: Tim
Brady and Symphony Nova Scotia
Centrediscs CMCCD 21515: Performances of Requiem 21.5 -
Violin Concerto (R.Uchida - violin), The
How and the Why of Memory: Symphony #4, Viola
Concerto (J.Puchhammer-Sédillot - viola). Conducted by
Bernhard Gueller.
Winner: East Coast Music Award
- Best Classical Recording of the Year
- February 2013 - Atacama: Symphonie #3 -
ATMA Classique ACD2 - 2676
featuring 32 musicians, combining Bradyworks with the VivaVoce
chamber choir
Nomination: JUNO Awards
2014 - Best Classical Composition
- October 2011- 24 Frames - Scatter -
Ambiances magnétiques AM 206
Double CD of solo guitar music and duos with musicians from
Bradyworks
- October 2010 - 24 Frames - Trance -
Ambiances magnétiques AM 203
A
CD+DVD of this multi-media projet for solo guitar, electronics
(Brady) and video (Messier).
- September 2009 - My 20th Century -
Ambiances magnétiques AM 189
A
CD+DVD of this multi-media work for 5 musicians, with music
and text by Tim Brady and videos by Martin Messier and Oana
Suteu
Nominated
for a PRIX OPUS 2009-2010: Best contemporary/modern recording
of the year
- October 2007 - SCAT (because we all have voices and
stories to tell) - Ambiances magnétiques AM 164
Australia's extraordinary chamber group Topology give stunning
performances of four of Brady's most evocative and virtuoso
chamber works. Recorded in Brisbane, Australia.
- October 2006 - GO [guitar obsession] -
Ambiances magnétiques AM 156
Brady's first solo guitar recording in 4 years combines
several exceptional live performances with new studio
recordings, including tape, looping, live computer and some
flat-out improv. Music by Brady, Tristan Murail, Alexander
Burton, Jean-François Laporte and Laurence Crane.
- November 2005 - Three Cities in the Life of Dr.
Norman Bethune - Ambiances magnétiques AM 139
A one-act chamber opera for solo voice, 8 instruments and
tape, featuring a passionate performance by baritone Michael
Donovan. The work is an evocation of the last five years (1935
- 1939) in the life of this remarkable doctor, humanitarian
and political activist.
Nominated for a PRIX OPUS
2005-2006: Best contemporary/modern recording of the
year
- September 2004 - Playing Guitar: Symphony #1 -
Ambiances magnétiques AM 125
The premiere recording of Brady's first symphony, a 46-minute
work for solo electric guitar, sampler, 15 musicians and live
electronics. The work was recorded by its commissioner, the
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, under the direction of Lorraine
Vaillancourt. Also included is the work "Frame 1 - Resonance"
for electric guitar, electronics and piano. A beautiful and
ambitious recording project.
Nominated for a 2004-2005 PRIX
OPUS: Best contemporary/modern CD of the year
- April 2003 - Unison Rituals - Ambiances
magnétiques AM 110
A CD of Brady's chamber and ensemble music for saxophone,
include the saxophone quartet "Unison Rituals", three
performances by Bradyworks ("Double Helix", "Two Chords Less
Than a Blues" and "Escapement", featuring a scordatura guitar
part), and a studio realisation of the work "Sound Off", which
uses overdubbing to create an ensemble of 48 winds and 3 bass
drums. Beautifully recorded at Concordia University's Oscar
Peterson Concert Hall, and with great performances from the
Quasar saxophone quartet, the KAPPA big band and Bradyworks.
Brady'second release for Ambiances magnétiques.
- November 2002 - Twenty Quarter Inch Jacks -
Ambiances magnétiques AM 107
A new CD of guitar music by Tim Brady, released to coincide
with the premiere of the instrumental music theatre work "20
Jacks 1/4", for 20 young guitarists, commissioned by the
international theatre festival "Les Coups de theatre". The
title track is a 30-minute work for 20 overdubbed guitars,
performed by Brady. Also included are two works from 2001, for
guitar and sampler/tape: "Music Box Bell Curves ("Hello
Paris!)" and "Sauchiehall Street". Almost 60 minutes of guitar
madness - Brady's first release on the Ambiances magnétiques
label.
- 2000 - 10 Collaborations - Justin Time
Records JTR - 8484/5-2.
A double CD with almost 2 hours of music including 5 new works
by Brady, plus music by Jeremy Peyton-Jones (UK), Wende
Bartley (Canada), Tristan Murail (France), Yasuhiro Otani
(Japan), Wes Wraggett (Canada) and Atle Pakusch Gundersen
(Norway) for solo electric guitar and electronics, multiple
guitars, and guitar and chamber ensemble, with guest
performances from Bradyworks' soprano Annie Tremblay,
harpsichordist vivé vinçent, computer musician Yasuhiro Otani
and the Penderecki String Quartet.
Listed as one of the "Best CDs of
2001"- Downbeat Magazine
- 1997 - Strange Attractors - Justin Time
Records JTR - 8464-2
Tim Brady - solo electric guitar, electronics, multitrack and
computer studio
Six new works by Tim Brady created using a wide variety of
contemporary electronic technology ranging from solo re-tuned
guitar to works for computer controlled sound and guitar.
Sonic exploration, wild guitar sounds, strong performances and
the odd nice "tune" thrown in for good measure.
- 1996 - Revolutionary Songs - Justin Time
Records JTR - 8459-2
Bradyworks - Tim Brady (gtr.); Nathalie Paulin (soprano);
Marie-Josée Simard (perc.); Louise-Andrée Baril (pno.); André
Leroux (sax.); Gordon Cleland (cello). The title track is a
39-minute song-cycle based on poetry from the Russian,
Angolan, French and Nicaraguan revolutions, sung in English,
French and Spanish. Also on the CD are the works Circling
(saxophone and vibraphone), Three or Four Days After the
Death of Kurt Cobain (cello and piano) and Walker
Songs (solo soprano).
- 1994 - Scenarios - Justin Time Records JTR -
8445-2
Tim Brady - solo electric guitar and live electronics.
Originally recorded live in the CBC studios for the radio show
Two New Hours, this CD continues Brady's exploration
into developing a new musical language for the electric
guitar. Works by Brady, Michael Rosas Cobian, José-Manuel
Montañés and Marc Tremblay.
- 1992 - Imaginary Guitars - Justin Time
Records JTR - 8440-2
Tim Brady - solo electric guitar and live electronics. Voted
one of the best guitar CDs of the year by Guitar Player's
Editor Joe Gore, this recording presents four solo guitar
works with electronics and tape by Brady along with pieces
from Paul Dolden, René Lussier and Alain Thibault. The
ultimate electroacoutsic guitar experience.
- 1991 - Inventions - Justin Time Records JTR -
8433-2
Bradyworks Tim Brady (gtr.); Marie-Josée Simard (perc.);
Jacques Drouin (pno./sampler); Chris Best (cello); Simon Stone
(sax.) with guest improvisers John Surman (sax.), Barre
Phillips (bass) and Pierre Tanguay (perc.). The music from
Brady's 1989 music / dance collaboration with choreographer
Julie West, combining elements of jazz, minimalism and
electroacoustics.
- 1990 - Double Variations - Justin Time
Records JTR - 8415-2
Tim Brady - electric and acoustic guitars, electronics and
synthesizer; John Abercrombie - electric guitar and guitar
synthesizer. A large, 14-movement work which intercuts a
series of duos between Brady and Abercrombie with 24-track
overdubbed guitar textures created by Brady.
- 1988 - Visions - Justin Time Records JTR -
8413-2
L'Orchestre de chambre de Montréal, Wanda Kaluzny, conductor;
Kenny Wheeler - trumpet & flugelhorn; Tim Brady - solo
electric guitar and electronics. The title piece is a
34-minute piece for string orchestra and improvisational
soloist and features some of Kenny Wheeler's best recorded
solo work. Brady and Wheeler also play duets and Brady's first
major work for guitar and electronics, Electric Waves,
appears on this CD.
Other
compact discs featuring the music of Tim Brady
- 20 Quarter Inch Jacks - a new studio
recording: CD Variations by guitarist Ralph Maier
(2015)
- RANT! - for percussion and piano - Bev
Johnston and Pam Reimer - Centredisques 18913 (2013)
Triple Riffing - for clarinet, violin and
piano - Ensemble Resonance - University of Calgary Records
(2010)
- Slow Dances - for clarinet and string
quartet - Jean-Guy Boisver (cl.) + Quatuor Bozzini - ATMA
Classique ACD2 2552 (2008)
- public space / private music - for solo tape
(installation) - on "4 X 4 Commissions" CD, limited edition
put out by the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow,
Scotland (2001)
- Quartet 1998 - for saxophone quartet - on
self-titled CD by the group Quasar - les Disques ATMA (2000)
- Waiter, Waiter, Call the Manager - for big band - on
the self-titled CD by the KAPPA ensemble (1998)
- Trois histoires - Brady's performance of Roche
noire (chronique irlandaise) appears on this recording
of music by composer / guitarist René Lussier - Ambiance
Magnetique 041CD (1996)
- Circling - original version for flute and vibraphone
- on Marie-Josée Simard and Lise Daoust's CD "L'Aube Enchantée
- Enchanted Dawn" - Les Disques Atma ACD22115 (1997)
- Reaching Past - for harpsichord and tape - on
Vivienne Spiteri's "New Music for Harpsichord from Canada and
the Netherlands" - Société nouvelle d'enregistrement SNE - 542
- CD (1988)
- Changes - for piano, vibraphone and marimba - on
Marie-Josée Simard's self-titled solo CD. SNE 572 - CD (1991)
- Doubling - solo harpsichord version - on Vivienne
Spiteri's "comme si l'hydrogène...the desert speaks" - J&W
CD931 (1993)
Vinyl
(no longer available - copies available on special order
only)
- 1987 - Persistence of Vision - Apparition A-0287-7
Tim Brady - solo electric and acoustic guitars, delay devices,
synthesizer
Brady's second solo record increasingly uses electronics to
enhance the compositional aspects of his guitar playing.A
digital recording including a very early use of digital
overdubbing using separate audio feeds to the inputs and
outputs of the Sony PCM digital encoder.
- 1985 - dR.E.aM.s
- Apparition Records A-0485-5
Tim Brady - solo electric and acoustic guitars A combination
of improvised and composed pieces for solo guitars with
little or no electronics or overdubbing. A digital
recording.
- 1984 - Music for Solo Piano - Apparition Records
A-0984-4
Three contemporary classical works for solo piano composed by
Brady and performed by pianist Marc Widner.
- 1983 - Chalk Paper - C Note Records 831043
Tim Brady - electric & acoustic guitars; Neil Swainson -
bass; Terry Clarke - drums and percussion. A jazz trio
recording of six Brady originals combining contemporary jazz
with elements of free improvisation and more structured
compositions.
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