Robert Haigh // Strange And Secret Things CD

イギリスのピアニストRobert Haighが、2011年に日本の実験／アンビエントレーベルSirenからリリースしたCDです。

ピアノによる白昼夢ネオクラシカル・アンビエント17曲を収録。手製ミニLPパッケージ仕様です。

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CD presented in handmade mini-LP packaging. 

Tracklist:

1. Sons Of Light (Prelude) 03:02
2. Mysterious Rain 01:17
3. Heraclitus (Improvisation On A Theme) 03:08
4. Revenant (Prelude) 02:38
5. European Twin 01:56
6. Hansa 01:51
7. Dark House 01:41
8. Field Work 02:14
9. Panta Rhei (Improvisation On A Theme) 01:45
10. Across The River 02:58
11. Eternal Return 02:14
12. Secret Codes (Prelude) 01:16
13. Entre Deux (Prelude) 02:09
14. Latitude 3 01:24
15. Clear Water 03:28
16. Piano With Generative Tones 01:52
17. Requiem 06:17

Siren Records:

"Robert Haigh, long known as Omni Trio, is a veteran electronic and “ambient drum and bass” innovator. Strange and Secret Things, however, is solo piano. Now, when someone sits down at the piano and plays slowly and pensively, it is easy (and usually lazy) to immediately draw comparisons with Erik Satie, and “Revenant (Prelude)” and “Secret Codes (Prelude)” are in fact reminiscent. A nod, perhaps. Otherwise, Haigh’s seventeen miniatures are hardly strange and if they possess some secret, he seems more than willing to share it with us. He plays a crisp and clear piano, deliberate and intimate.

On this final entry to a trilogy, voltage is mainly used to run the recording equipment, with the rare wisp of a whit of a scent of electronics—a dragonfly following him “Across the River,” a shimmer quietly underlining “Dark House,” synthesizer arabesques decorating “Piano with Generative Tones” and what sounds like a violin (but could be a female soprano) sampled and played backward on the closing “Requiem.” Whether circular or linear, these tuneful, minimal melodies are truly precious pieces, black-and-white snapshots only just beginning to yellow and curl at the edges."

Artist : Robert Haigh

Label : Siren Records

CAT No : SIREN 20