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Jack Agdur’s Veiled States moves with the patience of someone comfortable leaving a question open. The EP is piano-led, quiet in its scale, and focused on emotional shades that never fully announce themselves. Agdur’s idea of feeling as a veil is a useful way into the record, because these pieces rarely push toward a clean…
Aptøsrs is the instrumental project of composer, songwriter, and producer Paul Terry. “Rust Mountain (Monochrome Piano Version)” is a rework of “Rust Mountain” shaped by the black-and-white version of Godzilla Minus One. Terry’s idea was to rebuild a track that originally leaned on bigger forces, drums, bass guitars, and strings, as a solo piano arrangement….
William Kalmer is a Johannesburg artist who made “Graceland” as a real collaboration with Audrey Karrasch and producer Edward George King. Karrasch, a Los Angeles singer-songwriter who previously appeared on The Voice USA, shares the writing and carries the vocal. King, a South African film composer and founder of King Music, produces the track. “Graceland”…
Pat Piperni is a Montreal musician making solo piano music he writes, performs, records, and masters himself in a home studio. He points to a wide range of listening, and names Debussy and Chopin alongside modern piano composers like Ludovico Einaudi, Yiruma, and Joseph Nimoh. “Quiet Storm” comes from a specific headspace he describes as…
Ashot Danielyan is a pianist and improviser who treats the instrument like his home base, even while his catalogue moves through classical, ambient, new age and experimental corners. Awards from songwriting competitions and the Independent Music Awards are on the CV, but the strongest calling card is still how naturally he shapes a melody at…
Atsushi Matsumoto built Études around an old upright piano he discovered in his family home and a rescued double bass. Working alone in Osaka, he restored the instruments, tracked, mixed, mastered, and even designed the cassette art himself. The record plays like a private notebook, a four-year return to sound after silence, written in short…
Ryoka Hagiwara comes at solo piano from a film composer’s angle. Born in Tokyo, raised in London and now busy scoring shorts and animation, she writes in pictures as much as in notes. “In A Haze,” recorded back near her childhood home and tied to a new strand of work about memory and identity, feels…
Toronto pianist Eddy Ruyter has spent most of his career supporting other artists, but his solo work shows he doesn’t need a band to tell a story. Waves (Deluxe) is him on piano first, everything else second. It’s a set of pieces written to hold attention, and it works because he treats the instrument like…