{"product_id":"piano-works-2016-2026","title":"Piano Works 2016-2026","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePiano Works 2016-2026 \u003c\/em\u003ecollects fourteen impromptu pieces by composer and producer John Carroll Kirby, written whenever he had the opportunity to sit at a piano while on the road.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese mostly solo works for piano were recorded in Los Angeles, Rome, Tokyo, Wollongong (Australia), rural New Zealand and London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePiano Works marks a departure from the full-band sound of recent albums Blowout and Septet, which Kirby has spent the past years performing live around the world. The album is a study in piano repertoire: Baroque, Romantic, Impressionist, jazz, minimalist, atonal, and more. Most of the pieces have an impromptu feel – improvised, or meant to sound improvised, or at least written in one sitting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collected pieces on \u003cem\u003ePiano Works\u003c\/em\u003e are a document of Kirby’s life as a piano player and touring musician, and “serve as the melodic \/ harmonic lexicon for what would inform all my other compositions of the past ten years.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stones Throw","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57534755242315,"sku":"NaN","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/JohnCarrollKirby-PianoWorks-1.jpg?v=1780929716","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/piano-works-2016-2026","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}