Amir Farid - Satellite Mapping (2016) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Portrait and Blues Hymn
02. Ice Man: Lost (The Moon) Don't leave me hear
03. Ice Man: Picture of an anorexic / Dignity / The dream
04. Ice Man: They must have seen me / Faint voices / Affinity
05. Innocence (in Stillness)
06. Looking to the Future
07. But I want the Harmonica
08. New Roads, Old Destinations
09. First Light
10. Fragments of Gratification
11. Equator Loops
12. Three Optical Allusions: Solar eclipse
13. Three Optical Allusions: Time-lapse photograph
14. Three Optical Allusions: Mobiles strip
15. Four Thoughts: The end of winter
16. Four Thoughts: For Oliver
17. Four Thoughts: Spirals
18. Four Thoughts: Bagatelle for Aksel
19. Matilda Deconstructions: Energised, elated
20. Matilda Deconstructions: Freely
21. The 4th Saturday in April
22. Evocation
23. Lavender for Hanna
24. Allusion, Introspection and Ascension: Barcarole allusion
25. Allusion, Introspection and Ascension: Schubert: 1828, an introspection
26. Allusion, Introspection and Ascension: The Petrarch Ascension
27. Satellite Mapping
28. Fanfare for Elizabeth
29. Homage (1989): (Bonus track)

Amir Farid performs the complete piano pieces of Stuart Greenbaum composed between 1989 and 2014.
This 2 CD release features over two hours of Greenbaum’s output for solo piano spanning a quarter of a century (1989–2014). This comprehensive achievement presents the works chronologically, recorded by a single artist on the same piano in the same room – a unique undertaking. Farid’s reading of the music is masterful, the performances beautiful, profound.
Greenbaum says: “the pure feel and sound of the piano is like a second language to me. Some of the music is occasional (written for births, deaths, weddings and birthdays); some works were written in response to works of art or established repertoire (communing with the canon of Western Art Music); others were deliberately blank canvasses inviting more abstract development of musical language. Throughout this, the influence of minimalism, contemporary jazz, blues and rock can be found interwoven with the chromatic, tonal language of the classical repertoire. The piano is not only a beautiful instrument; for me it has been an important tool for musical thinking and for the development of my compositional language.
“I often conceive of music in terms of journeys, but I also believe that music should be appreciable as pure, abstract sound in time. Either way, my music aims to evoke an atmosphere apart from the routine of modern life. I believe in the need to cultivate space in a world increasingly filled with commercialism, light and noise pollution and 24/7 thinking. At times, I think we lose a sense of wonderment at our earthly surrounds. Therefore, when I write, I seek an experience in sound to take me beyond mundane imperatives.”

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