Yield (Preludes and Fugues for Piano), by Adrian Lim-Klumpes

Yield (Preludes and Fugues for Piano)

by Adrian Lim-Klumpes

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Adrian Lim-Klumpes is most remembered for having been the frontman of the Australian band Triosk which released 2 albums on the Leaf label years ago. He then started a solo career and plays also in 2 bands back home in Australia, both experimental jazz oriented. In his new solo album, Adrian concentrates on Steinway piano.

Adrian’s unique sound, derived from a mixture of lyrical piano, jazz harmony and electro acoustic textures, shows the influence of John Cage, Bill Evans, Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Chris Abrahams. His music speaks to genres of minimalism, electronic music, post-rock and related sub-genres, jazz and modal improvisation, free improvisation, musique concrete, noise and drone, impressionism, serialism and the tradition of piano composition.

Here is what he saying about his album:
In creating Yield I set out with the intention to produce a set of Preludes and Fugues, improvising the themes and harmonies. Over my career I have found improvising to be the most truthful way I create. Bringing my extensive experience with methods of improvising and the techniques and aural sensibilities of jazz training, I wanted to revisit one of my earliest influences from when learning classical piano, the German master, J.S. Bach and his masterwork for keyboard, The Well Tempered Clavier, consisting of 48 preludes and fugues in every major and minor key. Through studying these works, I cannot fail to see Bach’s enduring influence on those who followed him including many of my personal inspirations, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. My influences also extend to the piano works of Claude Debussy, John Cage, Bill Evans, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Chris Abrahams and Hauschka.
All performances were recorded in one 6-hour session on a Steinway piano with a multitude of microphones and recording techniques. I enjoyed using an expanded piano timbre palette, including preparations, overdubs and extended resonances. A week later I spent 3 days mixing and editing through external audio hardware. I like the conflict I can bring to bear in blending the natural acoustics of piano playing and the manipulation of these soundwaves made possible in studio editing.
For this record, I was determined to construct fugues, based on the original translation from the Spanish, Fugare, meaning ‘to chase’. In Bach and Shostakovich’s fugues, voices chase each other across a two handed piece, often lulling the listener into a rich texture of harmonious melody where one could surrender to the depth of the polyphony. My experience in overdubbing and audio editing allowed me to plan to post-produce elements of these fugues, giving me more freedom to improvise.
Yield is part of a larger project of twenty-four preludes and fugues in every key.

The works included on this album are are follows:

Prelude and Fugue No.3 in Db major [Tracks 5. & 6.]
Prelude: silence proceeds chords
Fugue: a wash of colour is created with 3 repeats of the original, only one second later, creating an intense stretto. Sonorities are pulled from a variety of microphone placements.

Prelude and Fugue No.5 in D major [Tracks 7. & 8.]
Prelude: overlapping fifths move through a composed pattern
Fugue: a bass tone row is chased by a meta-melody, hindered by pegs muting piano strings.

Prelude and Fugue No.6 in D minor [Track 3. & 4.]
Prelude: two improvised layers drown the listener
Fugue: an improvisation, with and against a reversing delay effect, is layered through itself

Prelude and Fugue No.7 in Eb major [Tracks 9. & 10.]
Prelude: rhythmic pulses are defeated by a smear of effects
Fugue: an initial take lies still while the theme is repeated in the dominant key.

Prelude and Fugue No.8 in Eb minor [Track 1. & 2.]
Prelude: a simple improvisation on a theme, coloured with sampling and effects.
Fugue: a two-part oblique motion theme follows itself in various registers, rhythms and tonalities.

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released December 3, 2017

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