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It Works Both Ways
Athanas Gounov
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Duration: 44:11
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Tracks
It Works Both Ways; Inside the Quiet Between; My Illogical Desire (Iterative Composite Version); A Cure for Insecurity; The Forest of Will (Direct Composite Version); A Faltering Avowal of Love; That Beautiful Inconsistency
Personnel
Athanas Gounov
piano and vocalsAlbum Description
It Works Both Ways is a seven-track album built around the idea of a composer’s diary: a collection of musical reflections whose stylistic diversity is unified by a consistent creative process. Its foundation lies in the jazz fusion of the 1980s and 1990s, while the presence of a classical string quartet throughout the album introduces an unexpected orchestral dimension. The two ballads “Inside the Quiet Between” and “That Beautiful Inconsistency” bring synthwave-inspired textures into the picture, and “The Forest of Will (Direct Composite Version)” ventures further into lo-fi territory without losing its essential fusion character.
Each composition begins with an original piano performance by the composer. This human-performed source material serves as the basis for subsequent AI-generated musical development and remains partially preserved in the final recording. The composer selects, edits, shapes, and masters the resulting material, bringing the different stylistic excursions together within the album’s overarching concept: a personal record of compositional exploration.
The album’s most extended piece, “My Illogical Desire (Iterative Composite Version),” offers a particularly clear example of this process. Its final form emerged through four successive AI iterations, each building on the preceding stage of musical development. At fifteen minutes, the piece stands as an expansive record of this evolving compositional dialogue.
Across the album, human composition and AI-assisted development become complementary parts of a single creative process, allowing stylistic contrasts to coexist within a coherent musical statement.
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