Philamelian’s 3 Pieces From An Old Statue returns to a two-bar motif first written for the sci-fi short Adarnia. In “An Old Statue Reimagined,” that source becomes a full piece shaped by piano, voice, strings, and trumpet. The piano sits at the center, while Özge Ürer’s wordless vocal color moves through the arrangement with a human softness. Around it, Herman Ringer’s violin and viola, Yiğit Alp Onat’s cello and double bass, and Cana Çankaya’s trumpet and choir voice give the piece its physical shape.
Philamelian is Çağrı Tozluoğlu, a London-based composer, producer, synthesist, and pianist working from TimbreWorks at Trinity Buoy Wharf. His music moves between classical writing, electronic texture, and media composition, with work for TV, short films, advertising, video games, and music published through global labels including BMG. That background matters here because the EP has a strong visual sense without falling into empty soundtrack language. It feels composed for image, memory, and touch.
The first piece is the most direct return to the motif. It has clear cinematic swells, but its strongest quality is the way the live players make the material feel newly handled. The vocal does not need words to give the track feeling. The strings and trumpet do not dress the piece up. They make the original idea feel closer, more fragile, and more awake.
Dov Waterman’s rework brings the motif into a warm, organic electronic language. It changes the body of the piece without treating the source as raw material to overpower. Tomas Nordmark’s epilogue moves in a different direction again: a guitar drone rework on top of the piano, with no strings, cello, or violin. That final version feels like the statue has been left in a darker room, still recognizable, but almost reduced to surface, resonance, and shadow.
The EP works because each version respects the same small origin from a different distance. Philamelian lets the motif breathe through live performance, Waterman gives it electronic motion, and Nordmark turns it into a piano-and-guitar drone afterimage. Across the three pieces, 3 Pieces From An Old Statue becomes less a remix package than a study in how one musical object changes when different hands return to it.
Sync fit: sci-fi short, museum scene, emotional documentary, art-film montage, reflective end credits.
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