Intakt439: ALEXANDER HAWKINS. SONG UNCONDITIONAL

ALEXANDER HAWKINS SONG UNCONDITIONAL PIANO SOLO		Intakt CD 439
		Release Date: May 2025

Alexander Hawkins: Piano Graphic design: Jonas Schoder Liner notes: Adam Shatz Photo: Edu Hawkins		All compositions by Alexander Hawkins. Recorded on October 7 and 8, 2024, at Artesuono Recording Studios, Cavalicco, Italy, by Stefano Amerio. Mixed and mastered in February 2025 at Artesuono Recording Studios, Cavalicco, Italy, by Stefano Amerio. Cover art contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA. Graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Liner notes: Adam Shatz. Photo: Edu Hawkins. Produced by Alexander Hawkins and Intakt Records. Published by Intakt Records. Executive Producer: Florian Keller. Intakt Records, P.O. Box, 8024 Zürich, Switzerland. www.intaktrec.ch
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Infos EN
British pianist and composer Alexander Hawkins is one of Europe’s most innovative pianists, working in a variety of creative contexts and always constructing a unique sound world. As a style-defining and imaginative voice in contemporary jazz, Hawkins provides further testimony to the art of his solo playing, six years after his last solo album (Intakt #330). Song Unconditional is as playful as it is intense – firmly rooted in tradition, yet endlessly searching and adventurous. Each of the 13 short pieces explores one or more expressive possibilities of the piano and are, in the words of Adam Shatz in the liner notes, “... marvels of compressed exploration. To listen to them in succession, as they’re meant to be heard, is to enter a vast, sophisticated, and deeply considered sound-world. Song Unconditional is also gorgeous, sometimes startlingly. It belongs, I think, in the company of the most impressive solo piano albums of recent years, notably Craig Taborn’s Avenging Angel and David Virelles’ Nuna."

Infos DE
Der britische Pianist und Komponist Alexander Hawkins gehört zu den innovativsten europäischen Pianisten, der in einer Vielzahl von kreativen Kontexten arbeitet und stets eine einzigartige Klangwelt erschafft. Als eine der stilbildensten und einfallsreichsten Stimmen des zeitgenössischen Jazz legt er sechs Jahre nach seinem letzten Solo-Album ein weiteres Zeugnis seiner Kunst des Solo-Spiels ab. Song Unconditional ist verspielt wie intensiv, genauso in der Tradition verwurzelt wie suchend und abenteuerlustig. Alle 13 Stücke untersuchen eine oder mehrere Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten des Pianos und sind in den Worten von Adam Shatz in den liner notes «Wunderwerke des komprimierten Erforschens. Hört man sie nacheinander, so wie es gedacht ist, taucht man in eine weite, anspruchsvolle und tief reflektierte Klangwelt ein. Song Unconditional ist auch schön, manchmal verblüffend schön. Es ist meiner Meinung nach eines der beeindruckendsten Solo-Piano-Alben der vergangenen Jahre, etwa neben Craig Taborns Avenging Angel und David Virelles’ Nuna.»

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