from 'Carlos Cipa & Sophia Jani - Relive' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den192
available in January on all formats at [denovali.com/carloscipa]

CARLOS CIPA, musician and composer residing in Munich (Germany), has been teaming up with pianist and composer SOPHIA JANI to follow up his highly acclaimed full length debut “The Monarch and the Viceroy“ with a two-piece collaboration record named RELIVE.

Carlos discovered his passion for music very early in his life. At the age of 6 he began taking classical piano lessons with various renowned teachers. Ten years later after he started playing drums in different bands he became more and more interested in composition and improvisation. In the following years he made experiences in different music styles like jazz, hardcore/punk, indie rock and orchestral music. For his debut record on Denovali Records he focused on his main instrument, the piano. Currently, he is studying classical composition at the “University of Music and Performing Arts Munich”.

Since the release of his debut record, Carlos so far shared the stage with marvelous acts like A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Nils Frahm and Ólafur Arnalds.

Sophia Jani, being in the beginning of her twenties like Carlos, has discovered her fascination for piano in a similar age. She is classically trained on piano and violin and has deepened her skills at the conservatory of music in Munich before she began studying piano at the conservatory in Bordeaux, France. Sophia left Bordeaux after one year turning away from just interpreting classical pieces to concentrate on writing her own music. Taking this crucial step, a concert of Ludovico Einaudi she attended played an important role. Recently Sophia developed an interest in filmscoring as well as experimenting with vocals. Besides classical composers like Chopin and Ravel, filmmusic especially from Bernard Hermann and Thomas Newman influenced her compositions.

The two pieces “Anouk’s Dream” and “Whatever a Sun Will Always Sing” were written for Carlo’s and Sophia’s performance at the Denovali Swingfest 2013 in Essen. The idea was to jointly compose two piano pieces for four hands, which do not only include playing the ordinary way, but also utilising rather unusual sounds from inside the piano. Carlos and Sophia used all kinds of contemporary techniques to create these sounds, like plucking and beating the strings with their fingers or different kinds of beaters, bowing them with nylon guitar strings, creating harmonics while pressing fingers down on the strings during playing, using the „aeolian harp“-technique (used for the first time by Henry Cowell in 1923) or creating beats on the cast iron frame. Throughout the two tracks nothing other than their combined fingers, the two nylon strings and three different kinds of beaters were used to create the music, the pieces can be played live without using any electronics.

During the recording process of the album RELIVE, neither of the compositions has been changed in any way. They were played exactly as in the live situation, which was a very important theme throughout this collaboration.

Carlos Cipa & Sophia Jani - Whatever A Sun Will Always Sing (Snippet)

Marek Iwaszkiewicz - Eos

Winter is here

High Hopes (Panic At The Disco) - Piano Cover

Lyrics and voice: Oddrun Eikli @oddruneikli
Keyboards: Vicente Bueso 
Artwork: Juan Carlos Grande

Time Will Tell Us.

They are waiting
they can not live there anymore
they are waiting to set sail

the rain looks like fastflowing streams
it gleams

they can not live there any more

they stand in the cold in a bitter wind

they can not live there anymore

time will tell us 
what we will be
we are waiting to set sail

time will tell us
they are waiting to set sail

Lachrymose

Time will tell us

Lachrymose V (Time will tell us) feat. Oddrun Eikli

Merry Christmas to all of you, lovely people..!!

This is a studio recording on the Una Corda Piano 'live' - courtesy of the great pianist Marina Baranova! Thank you so much, Marina!

Una Corda Bach

Siciliano - Bach / Kempf - Marina Baranova / Una Corda Piano

Cover of a wonderful piece of music by Yann Tiersen - Tempelhof. Played and mixed by me.

Tempelhof by Yann Tiersen

Low Mist, from Seven Days Walking Day 1, by Ludovico Einaudi.
In rememberance of the Covid-19 victims...
Recorded on a Yamaha NU1X hybrid piano with the Studio Grand sound.
Buy the original recording at Amazon Music.
Original picture by Pixabay.

Low Mist

Sacrifice
Composed & Produced by Brock Hewitt

Strings Performed & Recorded by Quintessence Ensemble
from "Distant Memories"
Copyright 2020 Stories in Sound

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You can listen to it on Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube and other major music streaming platforms!! Thank you all for your on-going support :)

https://open.spotify.com/album/4InmNQSZMYoOF4Ovi4BcjI?si=7tM6RFJUSI6n_T4YdjJ6Og

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/distant-memories/1512129430

Tempelhof by Yann Tiersen

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