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CMU Approved
Approved: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 20 June 2018
Three years on from her debut album, ‘Like Water Through Sand’, pianist Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch is set to release the follow-up, ‘Epoques’, through FatCat’s 130701 imprint on 13 Jul.
“Although the piano has always been a way of expressing how I feel and I wanted to create pieces that featured melodies, I [also] wanted to use the fact the piano is a percussive instrument that can handle strength, rhythm and force just as well as gentle, intimate playing”, she says of her latest work, which also blends violin, cello and electronics into the mix
“The ambivalence and tension between nature’s threat and beauty, strength and fragility, are all things I wanted to reflect”, she goes on. “Hence the contrast between solo piano or string duet and much thicker, electronic-heavy tracks, between organic and technological elements”.
Listen to the enthralling ‘Fracture Points’ from the album here:
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