{"product_id":"letters-to-erik-satie","title":"Letter(s) to Erik Satie","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Erik Satie and John Cage are UFOs in the world of music, because they envisioned music through a completely\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003edifferent prism,” says pianist Bertrand Chamayou. “They are pioneers in the sense that, for many people, they changed the very idea of what music must be.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his album \u003ci\u003eLetter(s) to Erik Satie\u003c\/i\u003e Chamayou pays tribute to two idiosyncratic, innovative and influential composers, one born in Normandy in 1866, the other in Los Angeles in 1912. There is a strong connection between them: Cage considered Satie a source of inspiration. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatie takes pride of place on the album with such pieces as the three Gymnopédies and the seven Gnossiennes, while Cage is represented by five pieces and a work attributed to him following its rediscovery amongst the papers of his disciple James Tenney – whose musical homage to Satie also features in the programme. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChamayou recorded the album at the state-of-the-art Miraval Studios in Provence, which inspired him to take an experimental approach: “I thought we should do something a little different – and I thought of Erik Satie. This was an opportunity to get really intimate with the piano … Satie is really a special case, a strange musician unlike anyone else.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Erato","offers":[{"title":"Black LP.","offer_id":50395909357899,"sku":"2164790","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD.","offer_id":50395908768075,"sku":"2164789","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Letters_to_Erik_Satie_c2414969_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726475309","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/letters-to-erik-satie","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}