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See: Ben Seretan – ‘Rain & Cicadas’: the piano in meshed susurration with the Appalachian rain

A FEW weeks ago we blissed into Sunday with New York songwriter and composer Ben Seretan’s absolutely luscious “Fog Rolls Out Rabun Gap”, the hero and protagonist of the piece…

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TRACK: Magnus John Anderson -‘Elkhorn’: studio wizard steps out with modern compositional piano

ONE OF the sea changes we’re seeing from all this viral upheaval is the emergence of artists finding their own voice in order to create, whereas previously they might have…

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SEE: Jon Hopkins covers Thom Yorke’s ‘Dawn Chorus’

AS THIS most hellishly viral year’s eyelids droop and it prepares to exit stage left, the masterful Jon Hopkins has brought some beautiful piano catharsis and grace for our troubled…

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NEWS: experimental composer and Cocteaus collaborator Harold Budd reported to have passed, aged 84

SAD NEWS this evening as reports began to circulate across social media that the poet, avant-garde composer and pianist Harold Budd, a progenitor of the modern ambient piano style, has…

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TRACK: Louis-Étienne Santais – ‘Reflection 1’: a piano study for an old friend

QUEBECOIS composer Louis-Étienne Santais has only been releasing music as himself, for himself, for a matter of months now; but he’s already racked something like two million streams on Spotify…

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SEE: Neil Cowley’s ‘Eureka Pulse’: solo piano grace from new triptych of EPs

NEIL COWLEY is someone who has lived and breathed music his whole life. He took on a Shostakovich piano concerto at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall at the age of 10;…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Laraaji – ‘Sun Piano’: solo piano from Eno’s stable

LARAAJI, the ambient musician, laughter therapist and even one-time stand-up born Edward Larry Gordon – who has even rubbed celluloid shoulders with Antonio Fargas, aka ‘Huggy Bear’, from Starsky and…

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