Soundings

Into Darkness / Darkness Pass: Solo Piano

Tracklisting:
00:00 Nduduzo Makhathini: Ase (Reflections, 2017) | 04:22 Kyle Shepherd: Ebhofolo (Into Darkness, 2012) | 12:09 Keith Jarrett: Part I: Royal Festival Hall, London (Paris / London: Testament, 2008) | 23:16 Nils Frahm: Ode (Solo, 2015) | 27:44 Brad Mehldau: Waltz for J.B. (10 Years Solo Live, 2015) | 33:53 Max Richter: A Woman Alone (Hostiles, 2018) | 35:44 Bheki Mseleku: Meditation Suite (Meditations, 1994) | 1:08:06 Nduduzo Makhathini: Duduzile (Reflections, 2017) | 1:13:00 Anders Widmark: Din nåd står vakt omkring mitt hus BWV 345 Version I (Piano/Hymn, 2004) | 1:16:54 Sergei Prokofiev: Prelude to Cinderella Suite, Transcribed for Two Pianos | 1:19:27 Ravi Shankar: Venezia (Piano: Florian Uhlig, Venezia, 2001) | 1:24:20 Arvo Pärt: Für Alina (Piano: Alexander Malter, Alina, 1999) | 1:35:14 Keith Jarrett: Part IV: Royal Festival Hall, London (Paris / London: Testament, 2008).

Tracklisting:
00:00 Nils Frahm: My Friend the Forest (All Melody, 2018) | 05:14 Gabriel Fauré: Nocturne No. 1 En Mi Bémol Mineur, Op. 33, No. 1 (Piano: Jean-Phillippe Collard) | 06:53 Abdullah Ibrahim: Blue Bolero (Senzo, 2008) | 13:02 Claude Debussy: Préludes (Book 1) - Des pas sur la neige (No. 6): Triste et lent (Piano: Gianluca Cascioli) | 16:32 Bill Evans: What Kind of Fool Am I? (Complete Riverside Recordings, 1991) | 23:24 Kyle Shepherd: Into Darkness (Into Darkness, 2014) | 31:00 Nils Frahm: You (Screws, 2012) | 34:08 HLT: The Mountain (Abdullah Ibrahim) / The Fire Within (2019) | 40:08 Pierre Boulez: 12 Notations pour Piano: V. Doux et improvisé (Piano: David Fray) | 40:56 Moses Taiwa Molelekwa: Darkness Pass 6 (Darkness Pass, 2004) | 1:07:37 Nils Frahm: Familiar (Felt, 2011) | 1:10:22 Brad Mehldau: After Bach: Rondo (After Bach, 2018).

Tracklisting:
00:00 Abdullah Ibrahim: Did You Hear That Sound? (Dreamtime Improvisation) (Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony Soundtrack, 2003) | 01:29 Abdullah Ibrahim: Blues for a Hip King (Senzo, 2008) | 07:33 Nils Landgren and Esbjörn Svensson: Free Esbjörn (Swedish Folk Modern, 1998) | 09:09 Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) (Maurice Ravel Plays Maurice Ravel, 1965) | 15:01 Brad Mehldau: Monk's Mood (10 Years Solo Live, 2015) | 19:50 HLT: The Fire Within / Blues for a Hip ... (2019) | 20:46 Chris McGregor: Maxine (Sea Breezes, Live in Durban, 1987) | 30:00 Nils Frahm: Tristana (Wintermusik, 2009) | 47:30 Bud Powell: Bud on Bach (Bud! Remastered, 1957) | 50:06 Dmitri Shostakovich: Prelude & Fugue #1 In C, Op. 87 (Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Keith Jarrett, 1991) | 58:15 McCoy Tyner: Contemplation (Live at Merkin Hall, NYC / 1988) (Revelations, 1988) | 1:03:45 Maurice Ravel: Jeux d'eau (Martha Argerich: Solo Works & Works for Piano Duo, 1991) | 1:09:11 HLT: The Mountain / The Fire Within (2019) | 1:10:03 Bill Evans: Ornithology (Complete Riverside Recordings, 1991) | 1:15:40 Johannes Brahms: Intermezzo in B-flat major, Op. 76: No. 4 (Live) (Brad Mehldau: 10 Years Solo Live, 2015) | 1:18:19 Moses Molelekwa: BoMolelekwa (Live) (Wa Mpona, 2005) | 1:24:21 Keith Jarrett: Part VIII: Royal Festival Hall, London, 2008 (Paris / London: Testament, 2009).

Epithalamium (n. song or poem celebrating a marriage)

My early 20c May Berlin piano recorded on 2018 Samsung Galaxy voice note, then arranged in Ableton. A series of improvised miniatures. With some apologies to Robert Glasper, Abdullah Ibrahim and Maurice Ravel. Best listened to after dark, if at all. Poem by Nick Laird.

You’re beeswax and I’m bird shit.
I’m mostly harmless. You’re irrational.
If I’m iniquity then you’re theft.
One of us is supercalifragilistic.

If I’m the most insane disgusting filth
you’re hardly curiosa.
You’re bubble wrap to my fingertips.
You’re winter sleep and I’m the bee dance.

And I am menthol and you are eggshell.
When you’re atrocious I am Spellcheck.
You’re the yen. I’m the Nepalese pound.
If I’m homesteading you’re radical chic.

I’m carpet shock and you’re the rail.
I’m Memory Foam Day on Price-Drop TV
and you’re the Lord of Misrule who shrieks
when I surface in goggles through duckweed,

and I am Trafalgar, and you’re Waterloo,
and frequently it seems to me that I am you,
and you are me. If I’m the rising incantation
you’re the charm, or I am, or you are.

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