New Album Releases: FALLEN TREES (Lubomyr Melnyk)

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Artist:
Lubomyr Melnyk

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
44:12

Record Label:
Erased Tapes

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes

Release Date
December 7, 2018

Find out more about this album release after the jump.

Product Description: Melnyk is noted for his continuous music, a piano technique based on extremely rapid notes and complex note-series, usually with the sustain pedal held down to generate harmonic overtones and sympathetic resonances. These overtones blend or clash according to harmonic changes. Most of his music is for piano, but he has also composed chamber and orchestral works. His piano music requires a special technique, closely related to the Martial Arts, and is too complex and difficult for any concert pianists to play. Because of his lifelong devotion to the piano, he has been called The Prophet Of The Piano. Melnyk lived in Paris from 1973 to 1975, supporting himself by playing for modern dance classes, most notably in conjunction with Carolyn Carlson at the Paris Opera. Many of his works were presented in conjunction with modern dance. Through his work with Carolyn Carlson, he began to create continuous music for piano. Melnyk has composed over 120 works, mostly for piano solo and double piano, and some for piano with ensemble. To explain the proper physical and mental techniques for his music, Melnyk wrote a treatise OPEN TIME: The Art of Continuous Music (1981) and 22 Etudes, to teach the fundamental levels of his continuous technique. [4] In 1985, Lubomyr Melnyk set two world records, documented on film and with full audio, at the Sigtuna Stiftelsen in Sweden. He sustained speeds of over 19.5 notes per second in each hand, and played between 13 and 14 notes per second for one full hour.

TRACK LIST:

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1. Requiem for a Fallen Tree (7:15)

2. Son of Parasol (7:37)

3. Barcarolle (8:00)

4. Fallen Trees, Pt. I: Preamble (4:21)

5. Fallen Trees, Pt. II: Existence (3:23)

6. Fallen Trees, Pt. III: Apparition (6:29)

7. Fallen Trees, Pt. IV: They Are Down (3:45)

8. Fallen Trees, Pt. V: Not Forgotten (3:22)

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