Running Backwards

Songs For Someone

in spite of

The new Hollie Kenniff LP is out this Friday, Feb 10th! 
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Bandcamp: https://holliekenniff.bandcamp.com/album/we-all-have-places-that-we-miss

We All Have Places That We Miss

We All Have Places

Hollie Kenniff - Eunoia (feat Goldmund)

His Mercy

Composed & Produced by Brock Hewitt
In Collaboration with The David Roy Collective

Copyright 2023 Stories in Sound

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His Mercy (w/ The David Roy Collective)

Ingrávida

Viajando

Inspired by the E minor progression and the deep space above.

This is the first track I created as part of my personal challenge to create a track every week.

Sakma is the name of my ambient music project.

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Sakma - Storyline

Original score inspired by the Collin Armstrong novel Polybius

1077NE

The world you were born into, indifferent to human suffering.

Guilt

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

I wrote this composition in memory of the 17 victims killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.  

@ 2018 Roger Hooper Music

Clouds

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Hallowed Halls was written as a homage to ancient or enchanting architectural spaces. When you walk into some buildings, the sense of history living within the walls and very fabric of the building is palpable. Generations come and go, lovingly maintaining their most cherished spaces to exist within a world they will never know. The piece combines the sound of an old orchestral keyboard instrument called the celeste with various synths and bell-like textures, and a repetitive groove built from a traditional Irish drum called the bodhran. Louise Anna’s voice is also used within the texture to create a sense of it reverberating within the space. The track has taken on a new significance recently, with all the concert halls, theatres and gathering spaces worldwide that lie dormant, waiting to be filled with life again.
credits

Written by Zands & Louise Anna Duggan
Produced & mixed by Oli Jacobs
Mastered by Guy Davie
Recorded at Real World Studios, UK
Cover Artwork by Melanie Kretzer

Minihi - Hallowed Halls

The Monk By The Sea is the ambient project of Croatian guitarist Ivan Ujevic.

Running Backwards

The Monk by the Sea

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