Name: In Memoriam: Patricia Ann Pietravalle Choyce by Alex Choyce
Duration: 2 min 2 s
Description: For my beloved Grandmother. She was stalwart in every possible sense of the word. She's in Heaven now. Patricia Choyce, pray for us!

As well as the previous one, i wasn't able to finish this track as my apartment was burglarised on October 2020.
Around July 2020, i've randomly sent some music to a dear friend of mine: Simon Heah, because he wanted to hear it.
Here is what's left, as well as other lo-fi recordings that i will only share on Soundcloud.
The thieves stole my musical equipment, my computer and the usbs where i kept the projects at the time, gladly i was able to send some audio files to Simon.
There is no reason for me to holding on to it, so here it is...

This track was recorded mainly around the summer of 2020, in my home studio.

You can now buy digitally "Unreleased (2018-2020) Vol. I", which is the album where this track is featured, by simply following this link : https://tinyurl.com/yck4mnaa

Days Like Dew (Unreleased Track)

From the album Retreat to Bliss available March 25, 2022 on Western Vinyl.  
Pre-order http://lnk.to/LuhvIV9W

Since the release of his last album – 2017’s Finding Shore, a collaboration with Brian Eno – pianist and singer-songwriter Tom Rogerson’s life has undergone a number of dramatic transformations. While writing his new album Retreat to Bliss, Rogerson had a child, lost a parent, and received his own diagnosis of a rare form of blood cancer. The new decade brought him from Berlin to the Suffolk of his childhood, composing profound pieces of minimal songwriting in the church next to his parents’ home. 

Rogerson studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music under mentors like Harrison Birtwistle, and he made his live debut as an improvising pianist in 2002, before releasing an improvised record with Reid Anderson (Bad Plus) and Mike Lewis (Happy Apple, Bon Iver) in 2004. He formed the band Three Trapped Tigers in 2007, expertly blending elements of electronic, jazz and noise rock into a cohesive whole. The band earned a reputation for innovative live shows and went on to perform and collaborate with artists like Brian Eno, Deftones, and the Dillinger Escape Plan. It was working with Eno, another Suffolk native, that eventually led Rogerson back to his roots and back to a place where he could write Retreat to Bliss, his solo debut album.

“All my life, the piano has been my constant companion, my confessor, my best friend, and my worst enemy,”  Rogerson explains. “I’ve always written music on and for the piano, but it felt too personal, too private to release.”

Indeed, listening to Retreat to Bliss feels almost like eavesdropping, as though you’re crouched in the belfry of a Suffolk church, bearing witness to a form of musical bloodletting. For the first time in his noteworthy career, Rogerson has combined masterful piano playing and subtle electronics with the texture of his own voice, an attempt to express deeply private emotions that were difficult to articulate using instrumental music alone. 

“The last few years have brought some struggle, some joy, and a lot of change. My response has been to retreat to what I trust the most: the piano, my voice, and the landscape I grew up in. That’s how the album got its title, and how I came to be ready finally to release a solo record.”

The eleven tracks that make up Retreat to Bliss were recorded by Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, David Byrne, Grace Jones) over the course of just a few days, a process that emphasized spontaneity and the artist’s own commitment to improvisation. 

The opening track, “Descent”, begins with a series of spare notes suspended like icicles, an inhalation of breath audible in the void. The emotional piece builds in intensity until Rogerson’s masterful piano playing has completely taken over, conjuring sonic images of rainfall on glass. The piece blends seamlessly into the utterly gorgeous “Oath”, the first track to feature Rogerson’s earnest and unaffected vocals. The collection draws the listener in further with songs like the contemplative “Toumani”, inspired by the music of the Malian kora player of the same name, and the centrepiece “Chant”, in which Rogerson quietly pleads, “Please don’t leave me / in this perfect place.” The album finishes with the climactic “Retreat To” and the brief outro “Coda”, a revelatory diptych that unfolds like a confession, furious and mournful one moment and in the next, simply questioning.

Secular yet devotional, intensely personal yet profound, the experience of listening to Retreat to Bliss seems to evade characterization. It’s physical and emotional, a glimpse into the mind of an artist who has chosen exposure over withdrawal, who uses his command of the piano to chart an unflinching path forward, never looking back.

Tom Rogerson - "Oath"

For my beloved Grandmother. She was stalwart in every possible sense of the word. She's in Heaven now. Patricia Choyce, pray for us!

In Memoriam: Patricia Ann Pietravalle Choyce

Stacking harmonisations of the ancient hymn for Good Friday.

Vexilla Regis for choir (strings preview)

Zeal Guitar Solo (2016)

Glasz is the new collaboration of Jim Evens (Helen Stellar) and Jonathan D. Haskell (Seven Saturdays). Their second single, All My Songs Sound Alike These Days, is available streaming December 2nd and on iTunes December 9th.

All My Songs Sound Alike These Days - Single

All My Songs Sound Alike These Days

Taken from the digital only Remix EP, featuring tracks taken from C Duncans' album 'The Midnight Sun', reinterpreted by Dutch Uncles, KDA and Babe.

London-based house music producer remixes C Duncan's 'Do I hear'. It would sit nicely next to Kid A-era Radiohead, with C Duncans original piano over KDA's skittering drums and modest bassline that builds to a euphoric ending.

Out on FatCat. https://fat-cat.co.uk/release/like-you-do-remixes

C Duncan - Do I Hear - KDA 35 Re-Edit

From the debut album Light.  Available June 1, 2018 from Western Vinyl.

Bandcamp https://julianadaugherty.bandcamp.com/
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/light/1352432904?ls=1&app=itunes
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv148

It’s hard to imagine that Juliana Daugherty’s softness and subtlety could materialize amid the tumult of current-day Charlottesville, VA, but every mode of being continues in the people of Charlottesville, as it does elsewhere, despite the impressions headlines might give. Despite the societal ills that dominate our screens, private struggles still exist, and Daugherty’s debut Light gives them palatable, manageable, and satisfying form.

“I wrote this record partly to strip mental illness of its power,” Daugherty says. She adds, “There is nothing useful or beautiful to be gleaned from the experience of depression.” Though this statement seems contrary to the romantic tone of Light, it’s refreshing to hear an artist speak of their own depression with objectivity, unwilling to be charmed by the gloom. Daugherty wields her songcraft like a sword, not a diary to be buried in a drawer.

As one listens, it becomes clear that Light was not a title chosen despite the gravity of its subject matter-- romantic struggle, abject depression, and throbbing vulnerability-- but rather in service of it. Light, so to speak, comes when we give shape to what haunts us.

Light  

Juliana Daugherty - "Player"

My guest mix for April's edition of @un1tedinflames with @mmmmalibu

tracklist: https://imgur.com/w7UDF1y

Boston Camerata - Fare Well Ye Green Fields
Virginia Astley - A Summer Long Since Passed
Benjamin Britten - Spring Carol
7038634357 - A Ribbon for Red Lana
Oklou - 22
Gautier De Coincy, Andrew Lawrence King - Ja Pour Yver
Holy Other - Yr Love
Mikey Enwright - The Word
Coldplay - Reign Of Love
Cedric Madden - Heaven (Bieber remix)
Mikey Enwright - Damascus
Mikey Enwright - It's Nice to Have A Friend (T Swift remix)
Antonio Vivaldi/Max Richter - Winter: 2
Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day
Wii Menu Music
Boston Camerata - Hatfield

United In Flames April 2020 Mix

Debut release from Sorensen.
Written by: Sean Gage
Produced by: Sean Gage & Adam '8bit' Fischer
Mixed by: Adam '8bit' Fischer
Mastered by: Cem Oral
Buy Here: https://sorensenmusic.bandcamp.com/track/perfume

In Memoriam: Patricia Ann Pietravalle Choyce

Alex Choyce

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