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Chris Conway - Nocturnes
piano improvisations
 
Chris Conway - Nocturnes


1
How Things Are
2
Gentle Fire
3
A Short Journey On A Frosty Morning
4
Shared Reminiscences
5
Life Story Of A Meteor
6
Lucid Dreaming
7
Joy
8
Friends Forever
9
Time To Go


Chris Conway - piano



 

Chris Conway
A Little Night Music
Subtle and personal short improvised piano pieces. Atmospheric and poignant.


background
My previous 3 piano improvisation albums had concepts of scale or a ritual involved in the performance. When recording A Full Moon Summer Night’s Dream - a single restrained spacious piece on the edge of tonality, in a candlelit ritualised atmosphere of a full moon at midnight, it was a powerful experience, and I felt i had taken that as far as I could.

I decided to simply record short pieces again, as I had done on my Glisten album 9 years ago. As then, I only recorded only 1 or 2 a day so I would arrive to the keyboard with a fresh mind. I thought of the album as a letter home, reflecting “how things are” with me, in life and musically.

I find recording these albums quite an emotional experience. I have been improvising at the piano since childhood and playing has become a largely subconscious experience with just the occasional steer from the conscious - the music seems to come from somewhere else. But I can also hear the myriad of little references, influences, and techniques gathered over these many years. I can hear “how things are” with me in ways I am not conscious of, but I’m still not sure where all this music comes from.
CC

influences
Morton Feldman, Steve Kuhn, Marcin Wasilewski, John Taylor, Alexander Scriabin. Toru Takemitsu

trivia
Recorded 25-30th April 2019

Nocturnes is Chris Conway's 6th solo piano album, and is his 140th album under his own name or in bands and equal collaborations.

Total time - 56m45s


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