Kelly Moran has confirmed she will release new album ‘Moves In The Field’ on March 29th.
The composer won acclaim with her first few releases, 2017’s ‘Bloodroot’ and 2018’s ‘Ultraviolet’ utilising prepared piano techniques. Aligning with Warp Records, she took time out to rethink her approach, utilising new ideas in the process, before sharing comeback EP ‘Vesela’ at the end of last year.
Out on March 29th, new album ‘Moves In The Field’ finds the composer embracing the Disklavier player piano. A form of prepared music, it allowed Kelly Moran to explore her voice as a musician from multiple angles.
Kelly Moran comments…
In early 2020, Yamaha loaned me a Disklavier player piano – a special instrument that allows you to record your performance for the piano to play back on its own. I was initially working on a duet for myself and another pianist, but when the pandemic hit, the player piano became my duet partner. I began writing a series of duets for myself and the Disklavier, exploring all the different ways I could utilize this instrument to merge its inhuman capabilities with my own playing.
The Disklavier allowed me to record multiple layers of my playing so I could create music on the piano that would require more fingers or greater endurance than I physically have – like chords that had more than 10 notes in them, or chords that were spaced out farther than my hands could stretch. Sometimes I’d record a pattern and then speed it up to play back faster than I could ever physically play. My imagination exploded at all the possibilities this instrument allowed me to create, and these explorations culminated in my new record ‘Moves In The Field’.
A special teaser has gone alone, with Kelly Moran also confirming plans for a short UK run in April – it’s all very exciting.
Check out the trailer below.
Photo Credit: Brandon Bowen
