A piano cover album by recording artist Joe Kenney, to be released 2/24/16

Ship To Wreck

A piano cover album by recording artist Joe Kenney

The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive

Recorded at Ken-Del Studios w/ Paul Janocha

Piano: Joe Kenney

Down - Marian Hill (Solo Piano)

Love is Mystical - Cold War Kids (Ft. Ron Sansone)

Produced:
Carter Fox
Joe Kenney
Adam Sisko


Keyboard/Synth: Joe Kenney
Bass: Carter Fox

Ophelia - The Lumineers (Instrumental)

Spirits - The Strumbellas (Solo Piano)

Take it All Back - Judah and the Lion (Solo Piano)

Way Down We Go - Kaleo (Solo Piano)

The Fourth album from pianist, composer, and recording artist Joe Kenney. "Forth" features six decorated Philadelphia vocalists, in an album that is a blend of 5 vocal tracks and 5 instrumental tracks. The dynamic energy, versatile genre blending and piano-led instrumentations all contribute to a project that is equal parts distinctive, new, and relatable.

Joe Kenney, a 2013 graduate of West Chester University of PA (B.M. Piano Performance) is a recording artist, songwriter, and pianist from The Greater Philadelphia Area. The music on Kenney's four albums and various collaborations span multiple genres, and are reflective of a cohesive blending of classical music theory, jazz fusion, rock, soul, and hip-hop idioms. Joe has garnered praise for both his original compositions and cover arrangements.

His debut album, Afflictions and Remedies (2015), a solo piano album, received local airplay and was also praised as a "painting of a piano at work" by Meredith Hairston, who put the album in rotation at WJSU in Jackson, MS.

 In early 2016, Kenney went to work on an album of jazz and classical inspired arrangements of alternative rock and top 40 hits. Released in February 2016, the sophomore album 1.5 was recognized on broadcast radio 104.5 Philadelphia and featured on iHeartRadio. DJ Wendy Rollins characterized Joe's cover of the Twenty One Pilots song Stressed Out as "perfection" and went on to applaud him for "re-imagining songs in a completely different format."

Following the success of the first two solo piano albums, Joe expanded into different formats, working with a full band and honing in on a jazz fusion sound, while retaining the classically informed harmonies from his first two albums. An EP of three singles would be released in 2017, which would be the foundation and inspiration for the forthcoming 2020 album.


In March 2018, Kenney released 2.5, his third full studio album in as many years. Showcasing multiple styles and varying instrumentation, 2.5 features distinctively energized reinterpretations of eight alternative rock hits. The first half of the album features two full group instrumental tracks and two vocal arrangements, while the second half of the album features solo piano re-imaginings of four others.

In August 2018, Joe made waves with his debut orchestral performance with the Chester County Pops, where Kenney's arrangement of his own original work Zera was premiered, alongside a performance of Chopin's Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante.


Amidst an active performing and recording schedule with several bands and collaborators, Kenney's latest undertaking has been the recording and unveiling of his fourth album, which features six highly decorated vocal artists from the Philadelphia area, on a ten-track original album that has music geared towards markets that cross multiple musical styles. The first single, Another Side (Ft. Joy Ike), released on May 8th, 2020, and was premiered by Neon Music (UK) with a glowing review.  It was also featured on The Key/WXPN and selected as the Philly Local pick by highly popular radio personality Helen Leicht. The next two releases, All's Not Lost (Ft. Laura Lizcano) and Gone (Ft Aaron Parnell Brown) were also met with spectacular reviews. The full album is set to release in October 2020.

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