Alexis Taylor - Piano + Listen With(out) Piano FLAC download

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A1	I'm Ready Written By – Alexis Taylor
A2	So Much Further To Go Written By – Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard, Owen Clarke
A3	Crying In The Chapel Written By – Artie Glenn
A4	Without Your Name Written By – Alexis Taylor
A5	In The Light Of The Room Written By – Alexis Taylor
A6	Lonely Vagabond Written By – Gordon Anderson
B1	Repair Man Written By – Alexis Taylor, Green Gartside
B2	Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue Written By – Richard Leigh
B3	I Never Lock That Door Written By – Alexis Taylor
B4	Just For A Little While Written By – Daniele Canclini
B5	Don't Worry Written By – Alexis Taylor
C1	I'm Ready Producer, Arranged By – Lung Dart
C2	So Much Further To Go Producer, Recorded By – Mammalien
C3	Crying In The Chapel Producer, Recorded By – Beatrice DillonVocals – Alexis Taylor
C4	Without Your Name Producer, Performer – Susumu Mukai
C5	In The Light Of The Room Cello, Composed By, Performer – Betsy TaylorRecorded By – Neil Gowans
C6	Lonely Vagabond Performer, Voice – Rupert ClervauxVoice – Ksenia Kirsta
D1	Repair Man Mixed By – Andy HoustonRecorded By, Producer – Green Gartside
D2	Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue Engineer – Shuta ShinodaRecorded By – Ashley Wales, John Coxon
D3	I Never Lock That Door Recorded By, Performer, Mixed By – Jennifer Herrema
D4	Just For A Little While Recorded By, Performer – David Pajo
D5	Don't Worry Recorded By, Mixed By – Brian Degraw

Notes

From Alexis Taylor's Instagram:
"US double vinyl edition of 'Piano' and 'Listen With(out) Piano' with unique artwork by Oliver Payne as presented by Matt Connors.

From Pre-Echo Instagram:
"Now available online for pre-order, our beautiful gatefold limited edition release of @alexishotchip 's Piano and Listen With (out) Piano."

From Pre-Echo website:
"Double LP from Alexis Taylor. Exclusive US edition of both records. Designed by Joe Gilmore with art by Oliver Payne.

Piano

Hot Chip front man Alexis Taylor pares everything back to just piano and voice for an intimate record of new songs, reinterpretations of his own writing, and a selection of favourites both well-known and unheard before by other artists. Recorded at Hackney Road Studios by Shuta Shinoda, Piano invites the listener to be privy to a very private recital, with Alexis’ vocal and piano captured live and up-close, preserving each beautiful moment.

"I had always wanted to make a loose and to some extent unplanned piano record - partly inspired by an un-made but suggested Alex Chilton solo piano LP that a friend of mine told me about 15 years ago or so. I began one a few years back which then morphed into the second About Group LP - but the idea stayed in the back of my mind all the while.

“The idea with this record was to choose songs of my own and others' that were personal to me and to document live performances which were intimate and unadorned. I wanted to reduce everything to the barest elements, record a great piano well and do as little as possible to the recordings eq or effects-wise. The mood created on the record is pretty different from that on other records I have been involved with. It feels like a special place to be able to go to."



Listen With(out) Piano

Alexis Taylor announces Listen With(out) Piano, a companion album to his 2016 record Piano. Listen With(out) Piano features new versions by artists including Papa M (David Pajo), Green Gartside (Scritti Politti), Spring Heel Jack, Beatrice Dillon, Brian DeGraw (Gang Gang Dance), which can be played on their own, or at the same time as the songs on Piano, to create a brand new listening experience.

The album features the work of eleven of Alexis’s favourite musicians, handpicked to create new tracks designed to work in response to the songs on Piano, the third solo album by the Hot Chip frontman. Though the record can be synched with the original Piano recordings by playing both albums on two devices simultaneously, the tracks on Listen With(out) Piano can be also be enjoyed as original songs on their own merits.

“My brief was both very wide open and very specific, and part of the pleasure for me, and now hopefully for the listeners, is to see how everyone responded so differently to the task,” Alexis explains. “The results are truly amazing, and here you have a new album that works both as a kind of electro-acoustic ambient companion piece to Piano, and as a series of musical clothes to be put onto the deliberately bare record I released.”

Text from Moshi Moshi"