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John Carroll Kirby – Piano Works 2016-2026
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
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.”
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