Some Kind Of Peace - Piano Reworks

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Ólafur Arnalds’ 2020 album <i>some kind of peace</i> was a haunting blend of classical music, ambient and acoustic sound, and wistful electronic. For this reworked version of the album, Arnalds—a champion of creative collaboration—invited a strikingly diverse cast of musical innovators to experiment with its track. Pianist-composers Hania Rani and Dustin O’Halloran, jazz pianist and rapper Alfa Mist, the singer and composer JFDR, and cross-genre pianist, composer, and producer Magnús Jóhann are just some of the artists who answered his call. <i>some kind of peace – piano reworks</i> offers individual takes on Arnalds’ compositions while preserving their gentle melancholy. The new album’s contributors reveal their deep affection for his art through the prism of their own musical psyche. Rani, for example, hums a seductive sotto voce version of “Woven Song” to her keyboard accompaniment, while Jóhann conjures exquisite prepared-piano sounds in “Undone.” Elsewhere, Alfa Mist turns “Zero” into a smoky jazz ballad, and O’Halloran brings an otherworldly meditation to “Spiral.” “I’ve always maintained that a song is never really finished—that an album is just a snapshot of what the songs are at the time of recording,” Arnalds tells Apple Music. “When the idea of a reworks album came up, I wanted to put that theory to the test and get a group of artists I admire to experiment with the song, pull them apart, and put them back together with their unique signature. I only gave them one direction: that there had to be a piano somewhere in there.” .

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