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Retrieval: Music For Piano

by Matt Baber

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Travels 05:46
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Chorale 01:44
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Crystalline 04:14
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Harbour 04:26
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Song Sketch 01:21
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Holding Room 01:42
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Retrieval 02:30

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This is a collection of solo piano pieces written between 2012 and 2018. It was gathered together from a much larger collection of pieces written over the last 20 years and I picked the tracks that seemed to make the most sense as one album. None of them are scored out sadly...I tend to work on a piece obsessively over a few days and then record it so I have some record of it.
All of these recordings were meant to be demos of pieces that I would, one day, record "properly" in a studio or hall etc. But the more stuff I wrote the less likely it ever seemed that I'd be able to hold enough material in my head for long enough to do the session. So these tracks ended up being the final versions - and actually, I'm really pleased they are as they capture something spontaneous and fresh - often recorded within hours of a composition being written. Some pieces, like Sonatina no.2, I've had to keep returning to as they were too difficult to play initially. Others, like the title track, were salvaged from scraps of iPhone recordings that I don't even remember making, and then pieced together in a new recording.
Stylistically I would say that this music floats around somewhere between Reich and Ravel, Keith Jarrett and Keith Emerson...and probably a whole bunch more influences that I've absorbed and stolen from over the years.

Hope you like it!

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released September 5, 2019

Matt Baber: Solo Piano, Composer*

Recorded 2016 to 2019, in The Annexe, Oxfordshire.


*except No More Than We Deserve written by Winks/Baber/Waissman/Mallyon. Arranged by Matt Baber.

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