Erik Hall // Solo Three LP

Erik Hall // Solo Three LP

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アメリカのマルチ奏者Erik Hallが、2026年1月に同国老舗レーベルWestern Vinylからリリースしたレコードです。

Glenn BrancaとCharlemagne Palestine、Laurie Spiegel、Steve Reichの楽曲のリアリゼーション4曲を収録。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Western Vinyl releases available at Tobira. 

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12" black vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. The Temple of Venus Pt. 1 (Glenn Branca) 04:11
2. Strumming Music (Charlemagne Palestine) 14:19
3. A Folk Study (Laurie Spiegel) 03:13
4. Music for a Large Ensemble (Steve Reich) 15:32

Text excerpt written by Zach Schonfeld, via the label: 

"There is a certain solace to be found in minimal music—a contemplative joy that emerges through sustained repetition and subtle variation. Solo Three, the slyly absorbing new album from Michigan-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Erik Hall, embodies that hypnotic charge while boldly reimagining a distinct selection of contemporary classical works.

[...] With Solo Three, Hall brings this trilogy to a sweeping close. Instead of focusing on a single composition, he weaves together multiple works by several visionary composers: Glenn Branca, Charlemagne Palestine, Laurie Spiegel, and a return to Steve Reich. The result is a rich, varied homage to American minimalism—at once reverent and exploratory. Branca’s “The Temple of Venus Pt. 1” unfolds in oscillating organ and prepared piano; Palestine’s “Strumming Music” becomes a meditative blur of felted piano and guitar; Spiegel’s “A Folk Study” is recast with acoustic warmth in lieu of electronics; and Reich’s “Music for a Large Ensemble” closes the album with a 16-minute, kaleidoscopic rush of overlapping melodies and jubilant rhythmic patterns.

True to his method, Hall performs and records every part himself, layering instruments one by one like sonic bricks. The approach is deeply human and quietly defiant in an age of faceless automation. “It’s just so much more compelling to actually play every note,” Hall says. “Those micro-differences between takes create a sort of living, breathing magic.”

That living, breathing magic fills every corner of Solo Three. It’s both a reverent ode to the composers who shaped Hall’s musical identity and a vivid reminder that minimalism’s hypnotic beauty—its patience, precision, and quiet emotional power—still speaks urgently to the present moment."

Artist : Erik Hall

Label : Western Vinyl

cat no : WV291lp

Release date : 23rd January 2026

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アメリカのマルチ奏者Erik Hallが、2026年1月に同国老舗レーベルWestern Vinylからリリースしたレコードです。

Glenn BrancaとCharlemagne Palestine、Laurie Spiegel、Steve Reichの楽曲のリアリゼーション4曲を収録。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Western Vinyl releases available at Tobira. 

-------------------------------------------

12" black vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. The Temple of Venus Pt. 1 (Glenn Branca) 04:11
2. Strumming Music (Charlemagne Palestine) 14:19
3. A Folk Study (Laurie Spiegel) 03:13
4. Music for a Large Ensemble (Steve Reich) 15:32

Text excerpt written by Zach Schonfeld, via the label: 

"There is a certain solace to be found in minimal music—a contemplative joy that emerges through sustained repetition and subtle variation. Solo Three, the slyly absorbing new album from Michigan-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Erik Hall, embodies that hypnotic charge while boldly reimagining a distinct selection of contemporary classical works.

[...] With Solo Three, Hall brings this trilogy to a sweeping close. Instead of focusing on a single composition, he weaves together multiple works by several visionary composers: Glenn Branca, Charlemagne Palestine, Laurie Spiegel, and a return to Steve Reich. The result is a rich, varied homage to American minimalism—at once reverent and exploratory. Branca’s “The Temple of Venus Pt. 1” unfolds in oscillating organ and prepared piano; Palestine’s “Strumming Music” becomes a meditative blur of felted piano and guitar; Spiegel’s “A Folk Study” is recast with acoustic warmth in lieu of electronics; and Reich’s “Music for a Large Ensemble” closes the album with a 16-minute, kaleidoscopic rush of overlapping melodies and jubilant rhythmic patterns.

True to his method, Hall performs and records every part himself, layering instruments one by one like sonic bricks. The approach is deeply human and quietly defiant in an age of faceless automation. “It’s just so much more compelling to actually play every note,” Hall says. “Those micro-differences between takes create a sort of living, breathing magic.”

That living, breathing magic fills every corner of Solo Three. It’s both a reverent ode to the composers who shaped Hall’s musical identity and a vivid reminder that minimalism’s hypnotic beauty—its patience, precision, and quiet emotional power—still speaks urgently to the present moment."

Artist : Erik Hall

Label : Western Vinyl

cat no : WV291lp

Release date : 23rd January 2026