Piano Works 2016-2026

Piano Works 2016-2026

John Carroll Kirby

€ 37,95
  • LP
Label
Stones Throw Records
Expected release
28 August 2026
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Description

Piano Works 2016-2026 collects fourteen impromptu pieces by composer and producer John Carroll Kirby, written whenever he had the opportunity to sit at a piano while on the road.

These mostly solo works for piano were recorded in Los Angeles, Rome, Tokyo, Wollongong (Australia), rural New Zealand and London.

Piano Works marks a departure from the full-band sound of recent albums Blowout and Septet, which Kirby has spent the past years performing live around the world. The album is a study in piano repertoire: Baroque, Romantic, Impressionist, jazz, minimalist, atonal, and more. Most of the pieces have an impromptu feel – improvised, or meant to sound improvised, or at least written in one sitting.

The collected pieces on Piano Works are a document of Kirby’s life as a piano player and touring musician, and “serve as the melodic / harmonic lexicon for what would inform all my other compositions of the past ten years.”

Tracklist

  • 1.MS4
  • 2.First Position 1
  • 3.First Position 2
  • 4.Bendable Pine
  • 5.Melody
  • 6.Cecilia 14
  • 7.Piano #4
  • 8.Little Mouse
  • 9.Impromptu
  • 10.Empty Room
  • 11.Suntory
  • 12.Valentino
  • 13.Rain Walking

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