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Hauschka - Abandoned City

Review by Sam Cleeve

A fascinating study of exploiting a modest toolkit far beyond its means.»

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Hauschka is a composer, songwriter and experimental musician who has brought an exciting new perspective to the prepared piano. With 'Abandoned City', Hauschka returns to the solo prepared piano to produce an evocative work full of unexpected grace notes and mysterious sounds. The compositions on 'Abandoned City' awaken the loneliness and unattainable romance of timeless, unfamiliar places, with cinematic melodies full of resonant overtones, bright cheerful keyboard patterns and dark percussive touches. The tracks all bear the names of actual vacant cities.
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