Hiding (Reworks) is a unique collection of recompositions highlighting the talents of several exciting musicians, centering around a track that pianist and composer Garreth Broke wrote for solo piano called Hiding.

Hiding was first released as part of a collaboration with artist Anna Salzmann titled Healing, which explored the healing process in all its complexities. Whenever Garreth returned to the piece or played it in concerts, he kept having new ideas for it, as if the piece itself were telling him that it wanted to grow. This prompted him to invite a group of musicians whose work he admires to create a series of reworks of this composition, encouraging them to be as adventurous as they liked — a task that they really embraced, leading to some mesmerising results.

The result is this EP, in which Hiding is presented in six different forms. First, you’ll hear the original piece re-recorded on a gorgeous felted C. Bechstein upright piano, then reinterpreted by the fantastic ondes Martenot player and multi-instrumentalist Josh Semans from the UK. The wonderful Australian clarinetist and looper Ruby Lulham, aka Clariloops, offers up the gorgeous third track, which is followed by an exhilerating rework by Sweden-based Vargkvint and Jakob Lindhagen featuring wordless vocals, kantele, zither, harmonium, electric organ and synthesizers. In the fifth track, the piece is reworked into an atmospheric piano-led song sung by Vargkvint with lyrics by artist Anna Salzmann, who created the paintings that first inspired the project. Finally, Josh Semans closes out the collection with a brief but beautiful reprise.

This collection of recompositions shines a light on the unique talents of its contributors and, like a kaleidoscope, fragments of the original piece are ever-present but always shown in a new light. Hiding (Reworks) comes out on the 3rd of March, featuring artwork by Anna Salzmann and graphic design by Celia Bayo.

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Garreth Broke - Hiding (Felted Piano Rework)

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Three Bridges, part of a future album called "Numbered Places", to be released on 17 January 2020 through Bliss Recordings (frtyfve). 

Three Bridges is a neighbourhood within the town of Crawley, in the county of West Sussex in England.

Composed in February 2018 to celebrate the World Piano Day on 29th March 2018 (the 88th day of the year).
This piece is dedicated to Heike Rentel.

Released by: Janus Music & Sound, Bremen.
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Numbered Places

Three Bridges

JUAN MARIA SOLARE - Three Bridges - Piano

played and recorded by Edward Sikorski
mixed and mastered at Studio B
© 2018 Edward Sikorski

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My contribution to Piano Day 2018, a piano piece made for the occasion.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7I05DXoskcchgKMPUm6APA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grDjh2kgGmc

Bjørn-Henrik Zink - Reflections (Piano Day 2018)

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Breathe with me whilst listening to this poignant solo piano moment, in celebration of Piano Day 2018.

Breathing

We all miss you already. 
Wrote this last week, but decided to release it today on Piano day. Album out very soon.
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Bandcamp: https://aceruleanstate.bandcamp.com/album/singles-2017-2018
Sheets for this song: https://preview.tinyurl.com/y79x2mey

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My conbribution to Piano Day 2019. A track from my latest album "River Tales" which has been released in November 2018 by col legno.

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Solare unifies in his person -and his esthetic- diverse tensions: contemporary music and tango argentino, South and North, composition and performance... The stylistic elements of his musical Oeuvre include a tendency to aphoristic, a quote of unbribable melancholy, a dose of irony and humor (related to the surrealistic absurd), and an aspiration towards sublimity. Solare considers that art music and light music are not irreconcilable extremes, but poles in a force field, and moves himself comfortably between both points with a very personal "musical bilingualism". In Solare's Work, these differences can -may- coexist without contradictions. 

JUAN MARIA SOLARE - Three Bridges - Piano

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