Dmitry Evgrafov returns with his fourth career album and third for FatCat’s 130701 imprint. His most accomplished work to date, ‘Surrender’ is a broad and dramatic record that expands the Moscow-based artist’s palette and reaches beyond the usual post-classical range. Revealing an ambitious scope across the twelve-track span, it is bold in conception and beautifully recorded. With Dmitry playing piano, marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, bass guitar and synths and including sessions with an eight-piece string orchestra, a drummer and contributions from several instrumentalist peers, ‘Surrender’ was mixed and mastered by Martyn Heyne at Lichte Studio in Berlin.

‘Surrender’ encompasses a continually changing musical and emotional spectrum, sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic, taking the listener on a journey through intimate piano, string arrangements, fractured electronica, electro-acoustic ambience, and complex, rhythmically driven constructions. On these, Dmitry forges a kind of hybrid sound where post-rock meets classical composition, at times closer in spirit to Efterklang or Mice Parade in its sense of adventure. Even the sparser, downtempo piano pieces are offset by electronics and a subtle, masterful use of FX that hints towards material like The Caretaker or the bleeding edges of ambient IDM.

Dmitry Evgrafov - 'Surrender'

Contemplative Classical

Belching corpuscles

Soularjack:First day of summer(Soular addition)

Sparkle

Surrender

Splinter

Anthropocene

Whirl

Context

I Left my muse in San Miniato / The wolf sleeps on the balcony

The wolf sleeps on the balcony

We Float

Adonide

We're wrapping up our summer single series with the fragile yet hopeful solo piano piece 'Lonely Children' by Danish composer and pianist Eik Octobre, recorded on his childhood piano.

Stream the track on your favorite digital platform : orcd.co/lonelychildren

Listen to the whole series : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/2020-summer-single-series

Lonely Children

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Eik Octobre - Lonely Children