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GENRE: Classical, Modern, Piano, Experimental

Label: Pandafuzz
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 01:17:09
Erich Steiger floated into my purview during a hazy period and almost as quickly as he appeared...I was gone. Moving just down the way but into a whole different scene and having different experiences. As time began to strip away the refuse from our lives Erich's creative contributions and intentions became more and more clear. Mr. Steiger's growing expertise lies in his ability to survive the stripping away of excess and to emerge clear and intoxicating through the distillation of audio. Whether it be culling through hours of improvisation for those gems and then polishing them up or taking a finished product and proving it is not quite done yet by adding subtle but astonishing final touches...it is this distillation process I keep finding Erich through.
Erich's name has cropped up recently on many recording sessions and concert recordings happening at the 2640 space in Baltimore, MD. He keeps himself pretty busy these days doing mastering and recording for a variety of different projects as well as his own trio HMS. However he found some moments to send over this mysterious work he calls Avant Forte. An absolutely massive collection of 34 tracks documenting piano improvisation. Recorded under the radar and without authorization at facilities at a local college these recordings find Mr. Steiger feeling right at home. The tension I expected to hear given the recording environment are nowhere to be found, in fact he must have taken his time just given the sheer number of these tracks!
My suggestion for how to digest such a lengthy collection is to just suck it up....Stop living your life so quickly and take the time...I don't care if you have to put it on your damn ipod and listen to it on your useless subway ride...bring this thing into your life.
Available in FLAC!

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GENRE: Jazz, Piano, Modern Jazz

Label: Cheshire Records
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:21:49

Solo jazz piano album featuring original original modern jazz compositions by Jonah Dempcy (Revolution Void and Ultracat). Track 6 "Humans in Universe" is solo classic jazz organ.
I'm a musician living in Seattle. I make electronic jazz music under the moniker Revolution Void. My music is a mix of electronic breaks and jazz improvisation, featuring solos from some of the top players in modern jazz such as Seamus Blake, Lucas Pickford and Matthew Garrison.

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GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Piano, Atmospheric

Label: Rain
Release date: 2006
Total running time: 00:43:00

She was ill. Laying in her bed. Her beloved white roses weren't there to help. Without roses the solitude is much greater. The day was fourteenth and the month was second. She was waiting for a long time. Each minute was a long time. Without roses even seconds were called long. She did not know what to await for. Then the roses came. Enclosed within a flat surface, shattered and streamed into barely visible dots. But they were. They were audible. They had no scent, no look, no aura. But they could be heard. So she filled her ears with roses. The illness disappeared soon. All this for her.

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GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Drone, Piano, Space

Label: Earth Mantra
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 1:10:16

A collection of gorgeous ambient pieces falling somewhere in between the realms of light ambience and ambient drone, with an enchanting orchestral flavor and expertly arranged layers of synthesizers, lap steel guitar, processed piano, electric guitar, manipulated vocals, and radio signals. Spanning a full seventy minutes of audio, with two tracks nearly twenty minutes apiece, this is indeed a deep dive into the mesmerizing sound worlds of Somnarium. Motivated by a fascination with arctic vastness and the impact such extreme environments can have on the human psyche, Michael's original inspiration for Frost drew from accounts of polar expeditions conducted in the early twentieth century. Thematically, the music certainly evokes the scope and distance of such vistas, but we have to confess that we hear little coldness when we listen to Frost. In fact, we might describe this music as uplifting, or even heart warming, almost the antithesis of the stated interpretation. But perhaps this is where Meara's singular genius shines forth the most, his ability to blend two opposites into a whole that somehow exceeds the sum of its parts. No matter what the interpretation, however, the music speaks for itself. The compositional strength and instrumentation in Frost simply blows us away. Michael aimed from the outset to utilize "a more orchestral based approach", and indeed he has created a distinctive fusion of electronic and symphonic instruments that coalesce perfectly, with voicings that delicately pull on the strings of the emotions without going over the top, and with a sound design that can only be described as beautiful. A truly masterful achievement.

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GENRE: Post-Rock, Classical, Piano, Ambient

Label: Mini
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:19:37

Eurasia. is the project of a 20 years-old Japanese boy who his inspired by the bucolic countryside in the city of Wakayama. The 4 songs that make the debut of Eurasia. in MiMi grow in-between the ambiences and the keys of a piano with classical melodies. Akira, fictitious name behind Eurasia., is an anti-hero. Assume the lack of theory and technique in his compositions, but, in the end, he makes the music that he wants to hear. "The end of the autumn" is the song closest to what is called post-rock, is also the composition where the piano has a greater role than ambience layers that rise by the end of an EP that seems have in the autumn a good ally. The coordinates that surround the ambient and the post-rock are brought by Eurasia. on another release with the stamp of MiMi.Diogo Santos

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