Michael Vallera - Window In - VINYL LP

In essence, the sound of the piano comes in two parts it's attack and it's decay. The striking of a hammer is followed by the resonance of a string or strings. (Much the same might be said about the vibraphone, as it happens.) This dual quality of sound comes to mind when listening to Moments by New York-based composer Michael Vincent Waller. Performed by pianist R. Andrew Lee and vibraphonist William Winant, Moments - his third album, following Trajectories (Recital, 2017) and The South Shore (XI, 2015) - draws on Western classical music tradition in it's most archetypal forms through it's use of modal melodies, triadic harmonies and metered rhythms. Yet the emotional heart of the music is not in attack, but resonance. The afterlife of sounds. Those elements that can't be grasped and placed into easy historical categories. Behind his surface attacks Waller finds hazy, edgeless zones that draw us downwards, into introspection - an Inchinward gaze.Inch Waller's music is often compared to that of Erik Satie, and there is certainly something Satie-like in it's concision, it's subtle asymmetries and it's lack of ornament. But where Satie's Gnossiennes, Nocturnes and Gymnopédies were blank canvases, deliberately signifying nothing, Waller's pieces are vessels to be filled. That is partly an effect of titles Waller's pieces on this disc are all 'moments' of autobiographical poignancy - memorials, birthdays, homecomings; friends, teachers, family members. We are clearly invited to invest certain emotional expectations into these sounds. Liner notes by Tim Rutherford-Johnson and InchBlueInch Gene Tyranny. Mastered by Denis Blackham for digital and compact disc. Mastered and cut for vinyl by Rashad Becker. Album Tracks 1. For Papa 2. Return from la - I 3. Return from la - II 4. Return from la - III 5. Return from la - IV 6. Divertimento 7. For Pauline 8.

Emmy award-winning composer Michael Price will Tender Symmetry, his second album with Erased Tapes, on August 31st 2018. The ambitious musical project takes in a series of iconic National Trust locations across England as it's inspiration, turning them into unlikely recording spaces. Michael and a host of musicians and collaborators including soprano Grace Davidson (featured on Max Richters Sleep) and Shards (the choir on Nils Frahms All Melody) travelled across the country in pursuit of places far removed from the traditional recording studio to create seven unique and moving pieces, straddling the past and the future.1. Sandham2. Speke3. Willow Road4. Quarry Bank5. Fan Bay6. Fountains7. Shade of Dreams

Album Tracks 1. I'll Be There 2. Never Can Say Goodbye 3. Who's Loving You 4. Medley I Want You Back/Abc/The Love You Save 5. Ben 6. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough 7. Beat It 1. Thriller 2. Billie Jean 3. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 4. Human Nature 5. Working Day and Night 6. Bad