Kelly Moran has announced Moves in the Field, her first album since 2018’s acclaimed Ultraviolet, due March 29 via Warp (pre-order). She says:
In early 2020, Yamaha loaned me a Disklavier player piano – a special instrument that allows you to record your performance for the piano to play back on its own. I was initially working on a duet for myself and another pianist, but when the pandemic hit, the player piano became my duet partner. I began writing a series of duets for myself and the Disklavier, exploring all the different ways I could utilize this instrument to merge its inhuman capabilities with my own playing. The Disklavier allowed me to record multiple layers of my playing so I could create music on the piano that would require more fingers or greater endurance than I physically have – like chords that had more than 10 notes in them, or chords that were spaced out farther than my hands could stretch. Sometimes I’d record a pattern and then speed it up to play back faster than I could ever physically play. My imagination exploded at all the possibilities this instrument allowed me to create, and these explorations culminated in my new record Moves in the Field.
The first taste of these explorations comes in the form of “Butterfly Phase,” a gorgeous piece of piano-led minimalism. Listen and watch the album trailer below.
Tracklist
01. Butterfly Phase
02. Superhuman
03. Don’t Trust Mirrors
04. Dancer Polynomials
05. Sodalis (II)
06. Leitmotif
07. It’s Okay to Disappear
08. Hypno
09. Moves in the Field
10. Solar Flare
Kelly Moran — 2024 Tour Dates
Apr 18 – Silent Green, Berlin, Germany
Apr 20 – Lantern, Bristol Beacons, UK
Apr 21 – Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds, UK
Apr 23 – Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester, UK
Apr 24 – Islington Assembly Hall, London, UK
Apr 28 – Pavilion Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
May 25- 26 – Approximation Festival, Düsseldorf, Germany
Jun 14 – Sonar, Barcelona, Spain
Jun 21 – 22 – TNMK, Katowice, Poland