Formats
ALT002LP - LP
5061041821660
Details
• The album features a re-interpretation of Debussy’s Clair de Lune • Also features Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-inspired porous, amnesic, revisiting of previous composition ‘Barcelona' Asymmetry marks an attempt to chronicle lived experiences, both personal and beyond, but also to acknowledge,lament, make peace with - and in some cases even celebrate - the complex reality that sometimes things just don’t make sense. These are responses to a life lived and a world engaged with- distilled fragments from the broad spectrum of human experience- songs not only of dislocation and struggle but of consolation and hope. Born in London in 1984 Alex Kozobolis is an English / Greek,self-taught composer and visual artist, based in London /Brighton UK.Alex discovered the piano in his late teens - falling in love with the sound of it in hip hop +garage samples and, most influentially, through first hearing Thelonious Monk’s“Monk’s Dream”.Alex would find unused piano sat school and sneak in during break times- exploring and slowly learning, through trial and error, how to play the instrument As a composer, singer, and producer he has released several solo albums [amassing over fifty million streams globally , collaborative work across multiple genres (see:Impossible Germany, To Move,The Arteries of New York City).He has scored multiple award award-winning short films as well as several campaigns for Ralph Lauren.Pieces from his previous solo albums Weightless, Somewhere Else, The Seasons Are Not Four have received support and airplay across radio including KEXP, BBC Radio 6,BBC Radio 3 + NTS radio
Tracks
01. Lost Hours 02. Terminal 03. Asymmetry 04. At Least Now We Talk 05. Stones Will Cry Out 06. Moonlight 07. From Montju?c 08. Red Threads Over Grey 09. Where Are They Now? 10. Icarus 11. A Garden For Fellini 12. Which Way Is Up? 13. ?When This Is Over?
Press
A collection of solo piano compositions with one foot in the jazz world and the other in the classical.