- Modern classical
- Post-classical
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Piano music
- Experimental electronica
- Electro-acoustic
- Improvised music
Comment:
Piano Attic is
Martinas Rakshtinas aka Martin Rach`s another issue from the year of
2016 (Late Autumn Quartets, Winter Quartets, Fall Quartets were issued before it). The Lithuanian musician’s
2-piece composition, especially
the title track used to draw
upon piano-driven experiments where are represented a pile of broken,
ragged chords being
subjugated to the force of electronic algorithms. The soundscape is a
slow-motion one where
any of the chords used to have enough free space around to be
amplified and progress into another second of time. Of
course, because of that the issue is slightly lethargic and even
dreamy. It is built on a simple base, where
the keys are disguised by electronic effects at a part extent. In a
word, the title track
is a case of the transmission and modification though
sounds. The
second track The Portrait
of a Lame Man starts
off differently with faint glaring droning being saturated with
skipping “errors, which
later will be complemented by lone piano chords.
By listening to it one can
see ghosts coming from the attic, from the slots of an old piano. The
more you listening to it the more you can hear the music sounding
like a dropping piano, which in turn is transposed and
as if moving further and back spasmodically. In
a word, the result is intriguing and playful.
