Piano Versions (Vinyl 12") Soundtracks & LibraryLimited edition Ocean Blue vinyl Presented as the sister record to 2014's Asleep Versions, Piano Versions is a collection of ambient piano cover versions. The songs on the EP, originally by Roger and Brian Eno, Thom Yorke, Luke Abbott and James Yorkston, are presented in a completely new context to their initial form. On these versions, Hopkins used his upright piano as the centrepiece of the EP, whilst recording the ambient, environmental elements
'afro' music from a group that traveled the world throughout the mid 1970's
a song about love and regret that was as sincere and heart-tugging as anything the man has ever recorded
a team of experienced musicians is gathered around prominent sound engineer Dominique Blanc-Francard: Slim Pezin (guitars)
attempted to master in his youth the delicate art of the Shakuhachi - the infamously difficult-to-play bamboo flute that whiffs of a certain Japanese Zen aroma
Y Dydd Olaf blends big themes (including patriarchal society
Built out from the same instinctive
and director LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters
Fantastic - a truly unique EP
Lester Bowie
becoming something of a left-field hit with the club crowd and young hipster types
it's a must have by any and every standard
including the ethereal "Got a Feelin'
