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@Cognessence grabbed this last night, I'm very much looking forward to sitting with it

Here is the release! Any support and shares are as always appreciated (and thank you to anyone who already shared the previous post.)

https://robertloganmusic.bandcamp.com/track/moments-notice-piano-improvisations

Over the last two years, I have been sharing videos of impromptu piano improvisations, played while wearing hearing protection due to hyperacusis - recorded wherever a piano happened to be available.

Friends’ homes, relatives’ houses, airports - across the UK, Hong Kong, Iceland, Hungary...Without a piano of my own, these moments had to be taken as they came, often quickly, without preparation, and without the possibility of return.

Some who saw these pieces as videos encouraged me to release the audio. Since I had never released anything in this spontaneous form before, it felt like an interesting thing to try. This collection follows that idea: letting the recordings stand, with all their fragility and environmental imperfections intact.

The individual captures remain largely unedited, but have been selected for their shared themes and characteristics from a larger group and brought into a continuous 53-minute experience. In listening back, I found threads running through these moments, shaping them into a kind of eccentric narrative.

Moment’s Notice is, in that sense, both a limitation and a method.

There are be plans to perhaps "properly" record more composed piano pieces in the future - but for now, this is offered as a free / pay-what-you-want download. :-)

Moment's Notice: Piano Improvisations, by Robert Logan

track by Robert Logan

Robert Logan
The flower plant hated my improvising so much that it flew off the piano. 🤣
@Cognessence really nice man, has a slight phantom thread twinge to it however I've been listening to that score a lot recently so I may be imprinting on your improv. Definitely your own thing and I would second an album or these!

The listening party for my new album 'Habitations' is this Wednesday, the 28th, at 8 pm (CET) -

https://evel.bandcamp.com/merch/habitations-listening-party

It’d be a real encouragement if any Mastodon friends joined. And since you all seem busier than I am, sharing sooner rather than later felt wise 😅

HABITATIONS Listening Party from EVEL

Listening Party from EVEL.

EVEL
Ratcheted waves fed into my sampler, manipulating a drum sample
@Cognessence I am yeah, I wasn't aware there were alternatives. I have the same issue with other peoples photos not loading on occasion too. I'll have a dig and see what I can find, hopefully one of the alts will fix the issue. Thanks for the tip!
@Cognessence for some reason it's only playing one second of it for me. Maybe my phone is goosed. Looks like it works for everyone else though so I'll just have to imagine how nice it sounds, which right now, I'm imagining is pretty nice
@sean_ae yeah the offshoot article surrounding heating that swimming pool in Devon for free is cool too!