Retreat To Bliss

Since the release of his last album - 2017's Finding Shore, a collaboration with Brian Eno - pianist and singer-songwriter Tom Rogerson's life has undergone a number of dramatic transformations. While writing his new album Retreat to Bliss, Rogerson had a child, lost a parent, and received his own diagnosis of a rare form of blood cancer. The new decade brought him from Berlin to the Suffolk of his childhood, composing profound pieces of minimal songwriting in the church next to his parents' home. Rogerson studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music under mentors like Harrison Birtwistle, and he made his live debut as an improvising pianist in 2002, before releasing an improvised record with Reid Anderson (Bad Plus) and Mike Lewis (Happy Apple, Bon Iver) in 2004.

Tracks

1~1~Descent 5:22
1~2~Oath 4:36
1~3~Buried Deep 3:31
1~4~Toumani 4:04
1~5~Drone Finder Part 2 2:25
1~6~Chant 4:32
1~7~Rapture 1 4:08
1~8~Open Out Span Wide View 3:47
1~9~A Clearing 4:01
1~10~Retreat To 6:10
1~11~Coda 1:37

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Rogerson, Tom
Release Date: 25 March 2022
Genre: Classical Music
Label: WESTERN VINYL
Distributor: Rocket Group