#recital program

Sean McCann - Ten Impressions for Piano and Strings (2015)

Roger Eno - "Silk" from This Floating World (Nov 10 on Recital Program)

The newest solo work by Roger Eno in nearly a decade. This Floating World holds rustic and melancholic piano works, as grey and mossy as a country cottage. I hear the LP chiming from the dark corners of a pub, soaking in the damp wood like spilled ale.

I first fell in love with Roger’s music through his 1985 debut album Voices, which cradled many rainy and caffeinated mornings when I was living in San Francisco years back. He played on the infamous Apollo, Music for Films vol. 3, and recorded a theme for the Dune soundtrack. String pads and veils of reverb pour through those processed tracks.

I later rediscovered Roger Eno in a different light with his 1997 album The Music of Neglected English Composers.  A playful and beautiful album of chamber pieces guised as the works of forgotten (and fabricated) composers from the past century.  His compositional sensibilities remind me of my favorite recent English composers… Hobbs, White, Bryars, Skempton, etc.

This Floating World feels like a hybrid of these two styles, a melding of both his ambient and ‘prelude’-esque compositions.  Warm and feathered furniture music.

In our communication Roger has been a real charmer, ending every email with “Roger and out.” A curious fellow, with a knack for tracing the understated beauties of this world.

Sarah Davachi & Sean McCann - Mother of Pearl (2021)

Old Song of the Day:

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I set the date for my recital yesterday, but I thought I would share my program with you guys. It comes out to almost exactly one hour: Prelude 1006a, J.S. Bach  Prelude Sarabande       S.L. Weiss  Gigue Be Thou My Vision, trad/arr. J. Roth

Chor der Priester from The Magic Flute, Mozart/arr. F. Sor Op. 19

Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen from The Magic Flute, Mozart/arr. J. Johnson

The Entertainer, Scott Joplin The Heliotrope Bouquet, Scott Joplin and Louis Chauvin A Whiter Shade of Pale/Air on a G String, Procol Harum/J.S. Bach/arr. J. Johnson In My Life, The Beatles/arr. J. Johnson Your Hand in Mine, Explosions in the Sky/arr. J. Johnson Musikones, Op. 107, John Duarte           I. Terpsichore I          V. Terpsichore III

Sean McCann ~ Music for Private Ensemble

A modern classical album was hiding beneath the drones and synths of Sean McCann‘s superlative The…

http://mccann.bandcamp.com/album/prelusion

<a href="http://mccann.bandcamp.com/album/prelusion" data-mce-href="http://mccann.bandcamp.com/album/prelusion">Prelusion by Sean McCann</a>

Prelusion is a great album and its worth having a quick look back because Root Strata recently reissued it on vinyl. Wonderfully organic sounding drones utilizing piano and organ as well as some synth and a bit of tape sound thrown in for good measure.