Anzû Quartet’s debut album, adjust, was released on Cantaloupe Music on April 25, 2025 and features two virtuosic compositions by Anna Webber and Anzû clarinetist Ken Thomson. Thomson’s Uneasy is relentless, kinetic, and emotive, reflecting the pace and anxieties of modern life, while Webber’s adjust explores the liminal space between classical contemporary music and experimental jazz. Both works, composed between 2019 and 2022, highlight the quartet’s prowess as interpreters and performers of demanding, modern repertoire, and fulfill Anzû’s mission of commissioning and promoting new repertoire for the instrumentation of Messiaen’s elemental “Quartet for the End of Time,” a new recording of which the quartet will release later in 2025.
Produced by Ken Thomson
Tracks 1-3 recorded by Alex Conroy at The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY,
February 7, 2020
Tracks 4-8 recorded by Martin Klebahn at 4tune audio productions, Vienna, Austria, September 23, 2023
Edited by Ken Thomson
Mixed by Mike Tierney at Fieldnotes Studio, Brooklyn, NY, Spring 2024
Mastered by Andreas K. Meyer at Swan Studios, NYC, November 2024
Uneasy i was commissioned by the Johnstone Fund for New Music for Unheard-of//Ensemble.
adjust was commissioned by the Johnstone Fund for New Music for Anzû Quartet.
Cover art: “balance,” Jimmie James, 2020, Berlin