‘Where were you guys when I was thirty?’

Lubomyr Melnyk is a Ukrainian composer and pianist who has pioneered ‘Continuous Piano Music’.
 
Classically trained and greatly affected by the minimalist movement in the early 1970s, he has developed his own unique language for the piano, named after the principle of maintaining a continuous, unbroken stream of sound.
 
Lubomyr Melnyk is a true innovator, exploring new directions for contemporary music. Not only is he regarded as one of the world’s fastest concert pianists, his compositions also truly carry the listener to new realms. To witness one of his rare live performances is nothing short of a mind-opening experience.
 
Melnyk has shown a remarkable devotion to the instrument, always striving to discover new ways of composing music in the continuous mode. His focus is on the actual sound of the piano as much as the harmonies and melodies of the music.
 
Using rapid and complex note patterns, Lubomyr's virtuoso piano technique forms overtones that blend, collide or even create new melodies in rare moments, and thereby shape the composition beyond its original form. To accomplish this requires a special technique, one that has taken him many years to master.

April 2013 will see Lubomyr Melnyk's his first release on UK label Erased Tapes. Entitled 'Corollaries', the album was recorded and produced by Peter Broderick with the additional help of Nils Frahm and Martyn Heyne. Erased Tapes founder Robert Raths knew it was time to share the great musical legacy of Melnyk, to which he simply responded: ‘Where were you guys when I was thirty?’

PRESS:

'Captivating as ever' – The Wire

'Modern classical raptures' ★★★★ – Uncut

'Stately, lush and quietly virtuosic' ★★★★ – MusicOMH 

'A pianist of remarkable talent and insight' 9/10 – Line Of Best Fit 

'A delight from start to finish' ★★★★★ – The Skinny

‘Hypnotic’ ★★★★ – Rolling Stone, Germany

‘Cascade-ish discharging beauty’ – Spex, Germany

'Epic, meditative stillness' Album of the Week – WQXR Q2 Music

'A lustrous, shimmering soundworld' Album of the Month – Textura

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