Music For Detuned Pianos

Max de Wardener feat. Kit Downes

SKU: VGLP063

Barcode: 5051083154710

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  • Genre: Jazz
  • Label: Village Green
  • Released Date: 20th March 2020
  • Buying Format:
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Max de Wardener returns to Village Green with an album of detuned acoustic piano pieces, performed by British jazz pianist Kit Downes (ECM). Drawing inspiration from modernist composers James Tenney, Harry Partch and La Monte Young, de Wardener’s intentions here were “to try and bend something established and monumental into something new.” The resulting album is deceptively simple, belying the project’s myriad technical challenges (pianos are immensely stubborn when subject to unorthodox tuning methods). Captured over a two-year period, Downes’ enlivening improvisations do justice to de Wardener’s vision in creating an elegant record that feels at once familiar, yet otherworldly.

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Track Listings

  1. The Sky Has A Film
  2. Bismuth Dream
  3. Redshift
  4. Blueshift
  5. Deranged Landscape
  6. Color Cry
  7. Spell
  8. Foxtrot
  9. Star Song
  10. Doppelgänger

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