Battery Life

Description

Memories are bittersweet. Like a battery, they come with a positive and a negative says pianist, composer and producer Neil Cowley on the inspiration behind his second solo album Battery Life, set for release on 24th March 2023. A happy memory is a positive moment of warm recollection Cowley explains further, followed closely by the negative of an insatiable yearning for something you can never experience in person again. A bad memory, while in itself a negative feeling, at least comes with the positive advantage of being some distance from the present. Battery Life is an album of abstract memories and stolen excerpts. It is my perception of the past before the detail is filled in. Blurred pictures, strange details, a feeling, a smell and above all the freedom to redefine the past at my whim. In an age where we are able to archive virtually any amount of life experience at the press of a button, it calls into question the value of a memory. Building on techniques he employed on his critically acclaimed solo debut album Hall of Mirrors, Cowley reignites his lifelong love affair with the piano before applying production expertise that incorporates elements from electronic, ambient and neo-classical music.