Producer and pianist Craigology delivers a smooth to funky instrumental collection of tracks this summer, utilising a mellow, nostalgic keys tone and colourful backdrop, for the dreamy optimism of Just Imagine.
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The music is divinely delicate, but also quietly commandeering, and this strength is piercingly notable throughout the likes of highlights Plaza and Misterioso. There’s also a profoundly all-consuming depth of sound to the healing frequency and power of Cavern – an intoxicating closing track, confirming the essential power of music in temporarily freeing us from the jagged edges of modern life.
Award-winning composer, pianist and soundtrack creator Javier Rodriguez has built up an unrivalled repertoire over time, creating renowned music and projects for TV, media campaigns, brands and institutions across the globe.
Where much of modern music feels the need to fill every moment with sound and noise and something attention grabbing, this project offers creativity and sound the time and space to breathe, and in doing so, offers its audience the same kind of serenity and intrigue.
Classical pianist and pop songwriter Kadie Kelly provides a uniquely immersive, organic listening experience, with the unplugged ambiances of her seven-track album Journey to Innocence.
Stunning solo piano guidance amidst humble strings paves the way for an enchanting original composition. Serbian creative Alex Solely drives with emotional integrity and depth, for this captivating live performance of Dream.
Instantly presenting with the raw purity of a live piano performance, complete with the weight of the keys and the natural reverb from the pedals, The Awakening is quick to intrigue for its sense of melodic originality. We progress through almost 4.5 minutes of music, an explosive mid-section injecting sheer power and tempo and fullness, in between two halves that feel both united in their tuneful direction, and unconfined by the walls of expectation.
Something to listen to at volume, largely for its blissful fusion of intricate detail and soulful expression. An ambient, ethereal journey, blending spiritual warmth and trip hop across an evocative realm of lyrical guidance and meandering sounds. Isaac Garza’s music is a dream and a pleasure to stumble into, and Revolt marks a sublime introduction for those new to his work.
New music from the poetic and distinct corner of creativity that is Ivano Bersini’s compositions – Love is instantly recognisable as Bersini’s style, but at the same time, this is once again a completely new take on the concept of pairing piano and poetry.
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.
Building up beautifully from intimate and haunting to dramatic and impassioned, its the live aspect of the playing that grips you – the melody is unsettled, sometimes comforting, but for the most part this feels like an outcry on behalf of the soul itself; an artistic manifestation of conflicting emotions and the true vastness of existence.
Musically inspired by JS BACH and Benedetto Marcello, Minuet 5.0 features a solo piano thread descending under vocal harmonies and a softly spoken poem about children.
With words delivered again by Stephanie Rodriguez M, Minuet 5.0 repeats the word ‘children’ throughout, forever reinforcing the innocence at the heart of the writing, and thus heavily juxtaposing this innocence and love with the shattering darkness and devastation of a polluted and desperately broken world.