Burnt Shades
by Andrew Lang
Numa Trix
Numa Trix
Bon ptit coup de piano là ! C'est ça qu'on veux
Brandon Loehlein
Brandon Loehlein
Somber, depressing, reflective. Well worth a purchase if you enjoy solo piano music. The notes played here are haunting and beautiful, and feel as heavy as they sound. Highly enjoyable.
Favorite track: Funeral March.
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Foam
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Funeral March
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Forest of Glass
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Daze
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about
Andrew Lang is a pianist and composer from Adelaide, Australia and ‘Burnt Shades’ is his debut album which follows a free EP released via his Bandcamp page. His influences are varied but he cites fellow pianists/composers Max Richter, Nils Frahm and Philip Glass as being particularly important. He also mentions another key inspiration in books, as he began to read again whilst recording ‘Burnt Shades’ – in fact, some of the track titles stem from literary references.
We’re pleased to be able to present Andrew’s first long-player, a moody and creaky but magical album that retains a live feel. This raw, honest effect was achieved by simply playing and recording piano improvisations in his music room, which is situated near a busy road and park. Andrew began to embrace the sounds of the outdoors as the world went on by whilst he sat recording, with birds, creaks and traffic noises accidentally making their way onto the album.
The piano itself was purchased by his parents several years ago, having formerly been used in a church crèche. For that reason, it has seen better days; physically worn in appearance and the keys themselves sometimes create odd sounds due to kids with sticky fingers and biscuit crumbs. Andrew wouldn't have it any other way, cherishing the sound of his old piano with its creaking pedals and the noticeably audible resonances of hammers at work.
Andrew had been writing an album for some time, only to scrap it as he grew frustrated at the dead ends he’d encounter. Then at the turn of 2015 on New Year’s Day, Andrew started work on Burnt Shades with a fresh determination; he wanted to build on his previous work by approaching the recording process a little differently. Previously he’d taken to working tirelessly on recordings taken on a mobile phone, by applying several EQ chains; this time he wanted to change his approach by focusing purely on his piano as well as upgrading his recording techniques.. So Andrew began to record into a DAW with a pair of carefully placed microphones and simply applied some compression and EQs. He also gave himself the challenge of playing the piano using just two fingers at any one time to rid himself of the constraints of complex playing – this allowed him to focus more on building the tracks carefully, with more freedom.
The result of Andrew’s work through 2015 is a short but beautiful set of tracks that will appeal to fans of Nils Frahm, Goldmund and Modern Classical Ambient music in general, featuring artwork from Slovakian photographer Milan Očenáš.
We’re pleased to be able to present Andrew’s first long-player, a moody and creaky but magical album that retains a live feel. This raw, honest effect was achieved by simply playing and recording piano improvisations in his music room, which is situated near a busy road and park. Andrew began to embrace the sounds of the outdoors as the world went on by whilst he sat recording, with birds, creaks and traffic noises accidentally making their way onto the album.
The piano itself was purchased by his parents several years ago, having formerly been used in a church crèche. For that reason, it has seen better days; physically worn in appearance and the keys themselves sometimes create odd sounds due to kids with sticky fingers and biscuit crumbs. Andrew wouldn't have it any other way, cherishing the sound of his old piano with its creaking pedals and the noticeably audible resonances of hammers at work.
Andrew had been writing an album for some time, only to scrap it as he grew frustrated at the dead ends he’d encounter. Then at the turn of 2015 on New Year’s Day, Andrew started work on Burnt Shades with a fresh determination; he wanted to build on his previous work by approaching the recording process a little differently. Previously he’d taken to working tirelessly on recordings taken on a mobile phone, by applying several EQ chains; this time he wanted to change his approach by focusing purely on his piano as well as upgrading his recording techniques.. So Andrew began to record into a DAW with a pair of carefully placed microphones and simply applied some compression and EQs. He also gave himself the challenge of playing the piano using just two fingers at any one time to rid himself of the constraints of complex playing – this allowed him to focus more on building the tracks carefully, with more freedom.
The result of Andrew’s work through 2015 is a short but beautiful set of tracks that will appeal to fans of Nils Frahm, Goldmund and Modern Classical Ambient music in general, featuring artwork from Slovakian photographer Milan Očenáš.
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released April 30, 2016
Written, produced and mastered by Andrew Lang
Artwork by Milan Očenáš
Written, produced and mastered by Andrew Lang
Artwork by Milan Očenáš
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Whitelabrecs is a UK based experimental record label established in 2016, specialising in highly limited runs of vinyl-
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