'Stain Ballads' by Martin Arnold / Apartment House

Four chamber works by the Toronto-based composer Martin Arnold, beautifully played by Apartment House.
"There are number of ways that the word 'ballad' could be applied to a lot of the music I make - clearly, I'm devoted to lyrical (if endlessly meandering) melodies, slow melodies that invoke a kind of vague, indistinct sentimentality. But it's significant to me that the word 'ballad' comes from the from Old French balade, from Provençal balada ‘dance, song to dance to’, from balar ‘to dance’; I've always maintained that all the music I make is in some sense dance music and I'm sticking with that."

Tracklist

1.	Lutra	16:40
2.	Stain Ballad	12:58

3.	Trousers	22:03
4.	Slip	14:41
5.	EXTRACT from 'Lutra' for streaming	5:33

6.	EXTRACT from 'Stain Ballad' for streaming	3:53

7.	EXTRACT from 'Trousers' for streaming	5:19