Description
Tracklist:
A1: Critical Spirit
A2: A Different Idea Of Love
A3: A World Of Abstractions
A4: An Hour Off For Friendship
A5: The Compass Of A Telegraph
A6: The Closing Of The Gates
B1: The Opening Of TheGates
B2: The Moment Only
B3: The Vast Indifference Of The Sky
B4: I Was Very Fond Of You, But Now Im So Tired
B5: A Language Forgotten
B6: A Faint Qualm For The Future
Eight years on from the release of his compelling debut album Sun, Cloud, Luke Howard has now established himself as one of the most important and exciting musicians in contemporary classical music. The composer has been at the forefront of opening up piano music to a new generation, while challenging the notion of what can be achieved in the form.
All of Us is not only an exquisite portrait of isolation, loss, resistance, and reconciliation in both stark and rich shades of piano, orchestra, and electronics, but the theme of quarantine provides a framework for the record. Throughout the album, Howard shifts between subtle permutations of shifting sound, etched with his trademark intimacy and restraint, and applied with a palate both minimalist and expansive, to his own piano, celeste, and synthesizer, the Budapest Art Orchestra (conducted by Peter Pejtsik) plays strings. Guests added flugelhorn, viola, contrabass, and modular synth while fellow post-classicist Ben Lukas Boysen provides additional programming, production, and mixing on Critical Spirit and The Opening of the Gates.
