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Improvisation I by Richard Pellegrin

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Album Title: Solitude: Solo Improvisations
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2021

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About the Album

Having released three powerful, boundary-crossing quintet records over the past decade, Rich Pellegrin turns to a small historic church, a piano, and an abundance of open time for 'Solitude,' a set of contemplative improvisations. Recorded at Whidbey Island's charming Langley Methodist Church, near Seattle, Pellegrin captures the spirit of place in these times, exploring the wide-open spaces of the mind and reconnecting with water, mountains and forest. The piano itself, also a relic with its own idiosyncracies and character, is another personality in the performance as its creaks and exhortations suggested paths for the performance to wander. An accomplished musical mind with sweeping, far-reaching intentions offers, with 'Solitude,' the freedom to just "be."

Tracks

Improvisations I - XXV

Personnel

Richard Pellegrin

piano

Additional Personnel

Produced by Rich Pellegrin Recorded by Rich Pellegrin at Langley United Methodist Church, Langley, WA, Summer, 2019 Mixed & Mastered by Rob Boullion, assisted by Caleb Alexander at LinderVox Sound, Columbia, MO Cover design & layout by John Bishop

Reviews

Solitude by Dan McClenaghan

Date featured

March 30, 2021

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