KIRBY,JOHN CARROLL - PIANO WORKS 2016-2026 Vinyl LP

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), 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."

Track List:

1.1 MS4
1.2 First Position 1
1.3 First Position 2
1.4 Bendable Pine
1.5 Melody
1.6 Cecilia 14
1.7 Piano #4
1.8 Little Mouse
1.9 Impromptu
1.10 Empty Room
1.11 Suntory
1.12 Valentino
1.13 Rain Walking

Label: Stones Throw