Music For Detuned Pianos

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.

Tracks

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

Details

Format: Not mapped
Artist: Max De Wardener
Release Date: 20 March 2020
Genre: Special Interest / Miscellaneous
Label: Redeye/Village Green
Distributor: MGM Music