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MOON LANGUAGE 
 

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Moon Language is a collection of extended piano works; a search for my own musical vernacular, crafted from field recordings and samples that I’ve woven into piano songs both composed and improvised. 

 

The album draws together many different influences including classical, experimental music, electronic, and jazz, all gravitating around the sound of the piano. I felt drawn back to my musical roots as a young child daydreaming up songs on the old upright in our living room, a hide-away from the chaos of a blissful but busy childhood, growing up in a family of eleven.  

 

Each piece carefully folds into the next, a mirror of the experience I hope to evoke with this album, the urge for connection with the sound, with ourselves, with each other. The title comes from Hafiz, “with that sweet moon language”, about a great pull in us to connect. “And why not become the one with a full moon in each eye…saying what every other eye in this world is dying to hear?” Also appearing on the album is a collaboration with violinist Juliette Beauchamp on “Satienne”, a re-imagining of Satie’s Gnossienne No.1. 

 

I finished recording this music while pregnant for my daughter, and the cover picture was taken just days before she was born. I dedicate this album to her and the deepest connection to another being I have ever known. 

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© 2024 Michaela Catranis

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