Romanian pianist and composer Andrei Irimia astounds with this work. Initially engaging listeners with a profound and emotional piano performance, Fragments soon evolves through a boldly electronic ambiance, an industrial to cinematic sense of drama, to effectively redirect us entirely.
These two parts of the same expression feel like opposing tracks in some ways, but they connect seamlessly. An artist whom first impressed for their musicianship at the helm of the piano, later impresses all the more so for the originality and detail of this gritty and rhythmic, atmospheric arrangement of complex layers and distorted tones.
It’s a fascinatingly original style, and yet even with such freestyle artistry and these unorthodox elements, the music is deeply moving when listened to at volume – cleverly balancing the organic and programmed realms of music throughout a vastly juxtaposed six-minute-plus composition.
Expect a journey of intense highs and heart-breaking lows, for the wonder and majesty of Fragments.
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