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Roger Eno - skies: rarities

Roger Eno - skies: rarities

Roger Eno

Composer and pianist Roger Eno releases his new 8-track mini-album entitled the skies: rarities. It features unreleased material from the recording sessions for his second DG solo album the skies, they shift like chords. That album traced an evocative and thought-provoking path through sound and silence. Its melancholy tone, echoes of which can be heard on rarities, had much to do with the threat posed to the environment by intensive farming and climate change.  

“When I come to record what will become an album I usually have an excess of ideas,” says Roger Eno. “This allows me, at the end of the process, to make a definitive ‘collection’ with a deeply considered running order. The latter is of great importance to me. Thus I often find myself in the luxurious position of having not one but two albums’ worth of material I’m happy with – rarities is that second album.”  

As well as solo piano pieces, rarities includes one track for choir and electronics (Patterned Ground), and one for string orchestra (Breaking The Surface), for which the instrumentalists of Scoring Berlin were asked to both play from the score and improvise. Guitarist Jon Goddard, meanwhile, appears on Into Silence, giving the track what Eno calls “a particular flavour it would otherwise have lacked”. In addition, the album features the 2023 World Piano Day track Through the Blue (Piano Version) and the Amazon Original track Above and Below. 

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  • 01

    Breaking the Surface

    04:14
  • 02

    Patterned Ground

    02:18
  • 03

    Through The Blue

    03:48
  • 04

    Above and Below

    06:54
  • 05

    Now and Then

    03:15
  • 06

    Changing Light

    03:52
  • 07

    Time Will Tell

    03:43
  • 08

    Into Silence

    02:37

Available digitally and on 12-inch vinyl, the eight-track album will feature unreleased material from the original album sessions from “the skies, they shift like chords”, 2023 World Piano Day track “Through the Blue (Piano Version)”and former Amazon Original track “Above and Below”.

As well as solo piano pieces, the skies: rarities includes one track for choir and electronics (“Patterned Ground”), and one for string orchestra (“Breaking The Surface”), for which the instrumentalists of Scoring Berlin were asked to both play from the score and improvise. Guitarist Jon Goddard, meanwhile, appears on “Into Silence”, giving the track what Eno calls “a particular flavour it would otherwise have lacked”.

Roger Eno’s second solo album for Deutsche Grammophon, the skies, they shift like chords, tracedan evocative and thought-provoking path through sound and silence (“thoughtful, meditative and gorgeously composed”Spectrum Culture).

Its melancholy tone, echoes of which can be heard on the skies: rarities, had much to do with the threat posed to the environment by intensive farming and climate change (“A record that could have been merely an ecological threnody is, instead, a beautiful reflection on the here, the now, and an uncertain future” – The Line of Best Fit).

“When I come to record what will become an album I usually have an excess of ideas,” says Roger Eno. “This allows me, at the end of the process, to make a definitive ‘collection’ with a deeply considered running order. The latter is of great importance to me. Thus I often find myself in the luxurious position of having not one but two albums’ worth of material I’m happy with – the skies: rarities is that second album.”

 

 

Roger Eno releases his second solo album for Deutsche Grammophon.

the skies, they shift like chords features piano solo tracks performed
by Roger Eno as well as multi-instrumental pieces, some with electronics.


It also includes “Strangely, I Dreamt”, a song co-written and performed
by Cecily Eno.

Roger Eno - the skies, they shift like chords (Full interview)
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Through The Blue (Piano Version / Visualizer)
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Deep Blue Day
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The Skies, they shift like chords

The Skies, they shift like chords

Roger Eno

Available in US on 17th November

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  • 01

    Chordal Drift

    03:03
  • 02

    Tidescape

    04:25
  • 03

    That Which Is Hidden

    03:25
  • 04

    Illusion

    03:28
  • 05

    Above and Below (Crepuscular)

    06:53
  • 06

    Through The Blue (St. Swithin's)

    03:46
  • 07

    Mind The Gap

    03:06
  • 08

    Arms Open Wide

    05:12
  • 09

    Strangely, I Dreamt

    03:27
  • 10

    Japanese Rain Garden

    05:55
  • 11

    If Only For A Moment

    05:22
  • 12

    Where Does This Lead Us?

    03:01

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