Kelly Moran announces her first album in over five years, Moves In The Field

“In early 2020, Yamaha loaned me a Disklavier player piano - a special instrument that allows you to record your performance for the piano to play back on its own. I was initially working on a duet for myself and another pianist, but when the pandemic hit, the player piano became my duet partner. I began writing a series of duets for myself and the Disklavier, exploring all the different ways I could utilize this instrument to merge its inhuman capabilities with my own playing," Moran explains.

"The Disklavier allowed me to record multiple layers of my playing so I could create music on the piano that would require more fingers or greater endurance than I physically have - like chords that had more than 10 notes in them, or chords that were spaced out farther than my hands could stretch. Sometimes I’d record a pattern and then speed it up to play back faster than I could ever physically play. My imagination exploded at all the possibilities this instrument allowed me to create, and these explorations culminated in my new record Moves in the Field.”

The forthcoming album follows Moran's 2018 album, Ultraviolet, as well as the Origin and Chain Reaction at Dusk EPs, and her most recent release, Vesela. The announcement is accompanied by the single “Butterfly Phase” alongside an album trailer.

Tracklist:

01. Butterfly Phase
02. Superhuman
03. Don’t Trust Mirrors
04. Dancer Polynomials
05. Sodalis (II)
06. Leitmotif
07. It’s Okay to Disappear
08. Hypno
09. Moves in the Field
10. Solar Flare