Wander

Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Capriccio & Octuor

Le sacre du printemps, K015: I. L'adoration de la terre: No. 1, Introduction

J S Bach Mass in B Minor live recording at Uppsala Cathedral, November 6, 2010.
Eva Ericsson Berglund, Soprano
Anna Zander, Alto
Love Bergman, Tenor
Daniel Åberg, Bass
Collegium Cantorum
Rebaroque
Conductor: Olle Johansson

Laudamus te

In A Sentimental Mood (Duke Ellington - arr. s-e-p)

Ripley (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)

Dickie's Ring

Fever (Peggy Lee)

Garden Of Color

Forbidden Sleep

from 'Landscapes of the Unfinished' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den251
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/pianointerrupted]

Recorded partly in Senegal with local musicians playing traditional instruments, "Landscapes Of The Unfinished" is Piano Interrupted's 3rd album for German experimental label Denovali.

This album sees pianist Tom Hodge and “electronician” Franz Kirmann explore a more introspective approach to their sound. The sonorities and recordings the pair brought back from West Africa are deconstructed, mangled and texturised, turned into a pointillist landscape until only a faint and distant souvenir remains.

These beds of pulsating soundscapes and earthy textures serve as base for Hodge’s delicate piano phrases and intricate compositions, interlaced with long-time collaborator Tim Fairhall's fluid double bass playing.

Harsher territories are also visited during the 9 tracks that compose the LP; fuzzy Senegalese radio voices and the distant memory of African percussion collide with distorted bass and buzzing drones or screaming textures battle with screeching double bass sounds and tortured piano strings.

The overall tone of the album reflects the duo’s desire to musically translate the experience of the Dakar trip (where Franz Kirmann grew up), but also to break away from the first two albums' intricate programming and editing and instead go towards a writing and recording experience directly inspired by their live experience. Hodge’s clarinet, an important facet of the Piano Interrupted live show, is captured on record for the first time. 

This surge towards documenting a moment, leaving a trace or examining something concrete is further reflected in the choice of titles (all named after the musicians who took part in the recordings) and also the design, which is for the first time a photograph. Taken by filmmaker Cath Elliott, who travelled with the pair to Dakar to document the process, the album artwork captures one of the numerous half-built structures, infinite and abandoned, surrounding the studio in the suburbs of Dakar, and provides both an unfinished urban landscape and yet when viewed as a single moment in time, one of many compellingly complete landscapes of the unfinished.

Landscapes of the Unfinished

Piano Interrupted - Abdou Kadre

‘My Head’ is an Ethio-Latin jazz track, which pays homage to John Coltrane’s "Africa Brass" album (McCoy Tyner on piano), with a nod to Horace Silver and Dave Brubeck. The piano riff-led sonic journey leads you through the east African highlands via a Latin nightclub in Addis Ababa and on to Brazil.

The track, like a lot of Ethiopian music, is in 3/4 and 6/4 time signature. The Afro-Brazilian 2/4 pulse gives it danceability! 

Samuel Yirga - My Head

A warm summer night in Arlington, Virginia's Lubber Run Amphitheater. The sounds of cicadas, children's laughter and a joyous audience plunged into the sensuous world-jazz performance of VERONNEAU. 

"Live at Lubber Run" captures the unaltered and unfiltered music, just as you would have heard it on the night. With special guests Dave Kline and Bruno Lucini. 

Veronneau perform their uniquely multi-lingual show of classic songs alongside original compositions, bringing new life to favorites from their three jazz and world Top 10 charting albums. There are some never before released surprises like "Sympthique" and an unexpected blues by Ken Avis. 

Quebecoise vocalist Lynn Veronneau has never sounded better, her warm tones floating on the night-time air. You can hear the cicadas sing along if you listen carefully and you can't miss the audience response as they sing along to the rousing finale of Brazilian anthem "Mas Que Nada"

La Mer

This multiverse is made out of strings. And I'm a tourist.

In A Sentimental Mood (Duke Ellington - arr. s-e-p)

s-e-P