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Hania Rani: Home

November 16, 2020 By guillaume

Hania Rani - Home (2020)

Just over a year after her impressive solo piano début album Esja for Gondwana Records, Polish pianist and composer Hania Rani returns with a new collection which expands significantly on her original sound. Featuring double bass, drums, a string quintet and the pianist herself on synthesisers, keyboards, electronics and vocals, ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Modern Classical Tagged With: electronic, Hania Rani, piano, songwriting

Vanessa Wagner: Inland

July 22, 2020 By guillaume

French classical pianist Vanessa Wagner initiated in 2016 a fascinating exploration of contemporary minimalist music alongside Mexican electronic musician Murcof with the wonderful Statea and three accompanying EPs. Pursuing a similar conversation between contemporary minimalist composers, solo piano and electronic music, ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Modern Classical Tagged With: electronic, piano, Vanessa Wagner

Paddy Mulcahy: How to Disappear

June 3, 2020 By guillaume

Paddy Mulcahy - How to Disappear (2019)

Paddy Mulcahy is a Limerick city-based pianist, composer, electronic musician and producer who debuted his career scoring for shorts, documentaries and adverts. Ever since the release of his 2015 EP Tape Sketches, the musician has been steadily delving into a more modern classical, minimalist and experimental study of acoustic ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Ireland, Modern Classical Tagged With: ambient, electronic, Paddy Mulcahy, piano

Jóhann Jóhannsson: Englabörn & Variations

May 11, 2020 By guillaume

Jóhann Jóhannsson - Englabörn & Variations (2018)

Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s début Englabörn was originally recorded and released in 2001 as the soundtrack to a theatre play by Hávar Sigurjónsson. Written for a string quartet, keyboard, percussion and electronics, Englabörn is a quiet and soul stirring piece of work which launched the composer’s international career ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Modern Classical Tagged With: ambient, Jóhann Jóhannsson

Murcof x Vanessa Wagner: Statea

April 22, 2020 By guillaume

Murcof x Vanessa Wagner - Statea (2016)

From Rennes in Brittany, Vanessa Wagner is a classically trained pianist who has recorded the piano repertoire of Franz Shubert, Robert Shuman, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin, Maurice Ravel among others as well as the music of contemporary French composer Pascal Dusapin. Born in Tijuana, Mexico and now ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Classical, Contemporary, Featured, Modern Classical Tagged With: ambient, electronic, Murcof, piano, Vanessa Wagner

Shida Shahabi: Homes / Shifts

April 2, 2020 By guillaume

Shida Shahabi - Shifts (2019)

Based in Stockholm, Shida Shahabi is a pianist and composer born to Iranian parents who fled the Iraq war in the 1980s to settle in Sweden. Written over the course of a year while moving from one apartment to another, Shida Shahabi’s intimate début solo piano record Homes was released on 19 October 2018. Subsequently released on ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Modern Classical Tagged With: piano, Shida Shahabi

Midori Hirano: Invisible Island

February 3, 2020 By guillaume

Midori Hirano - Invisible Island (2020)

Originally born in Kyoto, Japan and now based in Berlin, Midori Hirano is a pianist, composer and sound artist who has been blending electronic loops and layers with minimal acoustic piano since 2006. In parallel to her piano-based activities, the musician has also been exploring experimental and ambient soundscapes under the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Modern Classical Tagged With: ambient, electronic, Midori Hirano, piano

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