Swedish pianist and composer Jacob Mühlrad will release music from his Tröstrapporter project as a series of EPs throughout 2020. Swedish for “comforting reports” the Tröstrapporter project consists of music composed as a soundtrack to a play of the same name. Stream Jacob Mühlrad’s new EP Tröstrapporter Tröstrapporter (the play) was written by popular Swedish […]
Ludovico Einaudi has released a 12-track digital collection, 12 Songs From Home, recorded at his home in Italy on his own upright piano while on lockdown. The collection’s artwork was drawn by Einaudi, and the tracks were recorded using the composer’s iPhone. Ludivico Einaudi – 12 Songs From Home is out now to stream Discover […]
Chad Lawson’s curriculum vitae is so impressive that it would be futile to convey all the ins and outs here. From film scoring, jazz performance and now neo-classical, he’s covered it all. He could be forgiven for reflecting about the diversity of his compositions with a sense of ambiguity, but it became clear over the […]
GoGo Penguin are an instrumental trio from Manchester, England comprised of Chris Illingworth (piano), Rob Turner (drums) and Nick Blacka (bass). Fusing jazz, classical and electronic influences with a thirst for innovation, the trio have enjoyed success and rave reviews matched by few other contemporary instrumental groups. Channeling the golden age of electronica GoGo Penguin […]
Sophie Hutchings is guided by her instincts. As a young woman, immersed in a highly musical Sydney household, she bided her time, absorbing the music and art of her father and brothers, but herself refusing to play her own ruminative piano compositions beyond the safety of her bedroom. When her own innate talent finally got […]
Danish singer-songwriter Agnes Obel has released the first of a series of live videos. Filmed at her sold out concerts at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust, ‘Won’t You Call Me’ is an intimate live performance of the beautiful album closer from Obel’s 2020 album Myopia. Read our interview with Agnes Obel on the making of her album […]
Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? is a new work for piano and orchestra by American composer John Adams. The piece continues Adam’s provocative exploration of the piano – following his seminal works Grand Pianola Music (1983) and Hallelujah Junction (2001). Composed by Adams for pianist Yuja Wang and commissioned by the Los […]
“Simple music for complex emotions”. This is how Joep Beving describes his own minimalist and often romantic compositions. What began with a humble goal to self-produce an album of piano music for posterity’s sake tumbled rapidly into a trilogy of highly acclaimed albums – released by prestigious German label Deutsche Grammophon. In the five short […]
Ahead of the release of her album Scattered On The Wind, Australian pianist and composer Sophie Hutchings recommends her favourite listening, reading, viewing, eating, and places to visit. Music Ohhhhhh there’s too many to mention! So I’m going to go with the first neo-classical outfit I discovered: Rachel’s. Bordering on chamber-cross-orchestral with moments of indie-rock […]
