Chris Conway - Spring Full Moon Solitude
piano improvisations

background
Piano improvisations, recorded at full moon, 8th April 2020 at Aloft Studios, Leicester UK.

When Covid-19 changed the world, for a while I could not focus on playing any music. I first recorded some dark improvisations on a range of instruments, now released as Strange New World. But I wanted to go home to my first instrument the piano and connect to the music and capture how I felt.

The April Super Full Moon arrived and it seemed the perfect time as I’d had such a wonderful connection at full moon on my A Full Moon Summer Night’s Dream recording. Unlike that album, rather than one long track, I chose to play several smaller pieces. Full moon does have a strange effect on me and the like that other album, the music that flowed was sparse and quiet, perhaps also reflecting the weeks of isolation I had been living under, but on the last piece I felt great joy and a strong connection.

CC

influences
Morton Feldman, John Taylor, Steve Kuhn, Marcin Wasilewski, Alexander Scriabin. Toru Takemitsu

trivia
This is my 7th piano album, and my 6th of piano improvisations.

Some of these pieces, along with some others, I have sent to my friend Jim Tetlow from Memory Wire and we shall weave ambient electronics around them for our next album.

Total time - 55m20s