22 piano miniaturen, by Karsten Schulze

22 piano miniaturen

by Karsten Schulze

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contains Karsten's solo-piano tracks, sometimes combined with electronic sounds and virtual instruments. The item is designed with beautiful artwork as 4-colour 4-page digifile CD.

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1.	Après une visite à la Maison Nelles 00:34		buy track
2.	Regentanz 02:15		buy track
3.	Preface 01:24		buy track
4.	Nachtmoorwalzer 02:00		buy track
5.	Serpentinenabfahrt 00:40		buy track
6.	Second Attempt 00:38		buy track
7.	Impromptu Passionné 02:19		buy track
8.	Jazzy Allerley 02:23		buy track
9.	Corona-Quarantäne 04:39		buy track
10.	Come ye all to Hear the Angels Sing again 01:57	info	buy track
11.	The Slanting Advancement 01:10		buy track
12.	Wenn die Abendbilder Schwinden 00:46	info	buy track
13.	Rosenmontagswalzer 00:50		buy track
14.	Wunder gibt es immer wieder 03:20	info	buy track
15.	Suns of Self 01:43		buy track
16.	Looking for the Open Door 04:39	info	buy track
17.	Energy Walk 02:16	info	buy track
18.	Uncovered 03:18		buy track
19.	Überholen ohne Einzuholen 01:36		buy track
20.	Prayers and Care for Friends not there 02:50		buy track
21.	Vor dem Übergang der Seele (für Hildegard) 02:10		buy track
22.	Entspannung 04:03		buy track

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This small collection of short musical pieces for piano has been created during the last 3 years, and has been recorded mainly when many other activities ended in the first pandemic lockdown.I sat at the piano and tried to let the sounds flow. Some of the tracks were quite demanding in terms of the amount of time and care they took to get ready (“Slanting Advancement“ took quite a few years to develop), others came quickly and easily to me (“Après une visite“, „Uncovered“ and „Prayers and care“).
I don't follow a certain musical style, but rather let me inspire by a momentary mood or sound, or rhythm or motif, tune into the ideas that come, and look for the most adequate form of expression I can find to support the initial idea the best way I can.
Most important for these works was to keep the original simplicity and to add as little as possible.

Thank you very much for support and very helpful contributions:
Markus Apitius, Thorsten Hellmuth, Sigrid Schulze, Prof. Christian Bruhn; and thanks to all these tangible and inconceivable wells of inspiration and intuition.

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released December 3, 2020

personnel: Markus Apitius - recording of grand piano parts
Thorsten Hellmuth - mastering
Sigrid Schulze - graphic support, fotos
constructive suggestions
artistic advice, help with titles
Karsten Schulze - compositions (except 12, 14, 17)
arrangements, instruments,
recordings, mix, mastering (8,14,22)
graphic design, fotos

instruments: digital piano P-115 - all tracks, except 5, 11, 12, 22
Blüthner grand piano - tracks 2, 5, 11, 12, 22
organ (P-115) - track 17
Synthesizer DX-7 - tracks 4, 22
Sopranotron - track 4, 9, 22
Kaossilator - track 4
O-Ton-Samples - track 9
flute, oboe (Garage Band) - tracks 10, 14
harpsichord (P-115) - track 2

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Karsten Schulze Dusseldorf, Germany

K. S. has been active in a variety of musical styles and he participated in lots of musical collectives (such as rock and fusion bands, church choirs, a capella quartets, etc.) as well as composing and recording solo. On this site you can find and listen to a collection of his musical efforts, which mostly are far away from the mainstream and often withdraw from categorization. ... more

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