An esteemed musician and composer, achieving a deeply moving balance of precise instrumental phrasings and evocative melodies, throughout the uniquely cinematic pathways of a single track.
Adelaide’s Con Piliouras brings creativity and depth to the contemporary classical arena, with the changing stages and surrounding, all-encompassing escapism of Almost Yesterday.
Featuring a refreshing level of structural and instrumental purpose, Almost Yesterday stands tall for its cinematic development through a rather perfect and both epic and delicate three minutes and fifty-one seconds. However, the track also shines brightly for its changing degrees of detail.
We begin with acoustic guitar picking, and evolve through layers of piano, strings, hand rhythms and dramatic drum hits, with a fully-loaded imaginative storyboard emerging in the mind as we go. That quality is incredibly impressive. The track is so complex and nuanced, so consistently shifting in dynamic, but it also remains firmly grounded amidst its sense of mood and intentional movement, and that’s a clear reflection of the skill, passion, and audience-awareness of Con Piliouras as both a musician and modern composer.
Promising a joyous to dramatic then calming journey, Almost Yesterday is both intimate and euphoric in equal parts, holding attention from start to finish, in contrast with many other contemporary classical works – within which the music tends to prompt the mind to wander. In this case, your thoughts and feelings are with the music at every step, so you’re guided by the drama, the softness, the emotional redirections, and simultaneously welcomed by the familiar, comforting building blocks scattered throughout all of this.
Releasing August 7th – Pre-save Almost Yesterday. Find Con Piliouras on Instagram & Facebook.
