Artist: Piano Magic
Genre(s):
Rock
Electronic
Indie
New Age
Rock: Electronic
Ambient
Alternative
Soundtrack
Experimental
Discography:
Part Monster
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Open Cast Heart EP
Year: 2005
Tracks: 4
Open Cast Heart
Year: 2005
Tracks: 4
Disaffected
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
The Troubled Sleep Of Piano Magic
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Saint Marie
Year: 2004
Tracks: 6
Writers Without Homes
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Live @ La Guinguette Pirate, Paris 22.05.2002
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Son de Mar
Year: 2001
Tracks: 6
Seasonally Affective 1996-2000 (Disc 2)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Seasonally Affective 1996-2000 (Disc 1)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Seasonally Affective 1996-2000 (CD 2)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Seasonally Affective 1996-2000 (CD 1)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Seasonally Affective
Year: 2001
Tracks: 25
I Came To Your Party Dressed As A Shadow
Year: 2001
Tracks: 3
Panic Amigo: Piano Magic Remixes
Year: 2000
Tracks: 1
Live At Radio 3 Spain
Year: 2000
Tracks: 2
Artists' Rifles
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Mort Aux Vaches
Year: 1999
Tracks: 5
Low Birth Weight
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
A Trick Of The Sea
Year: 1998
Tracks: 2
Popular Mechanics
Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
Panic Amigo
Year: 1987
Tracks: 4
Due to a wide range of influences, restless/relentless creative energies, and a supporting draw that's too legion to list in full, random peeks into the catalog of the Glen Johnson-helmed Piano Magic -- from super limited edition singles on Spanish independents to uncut soundtracks -- seldom result in the same thing double. Started in the mid-'90s by Johnson, Dominic Chennell, and Dick Rance with the purpose to base their recordings around a small lens nucleus and whomever would like to contribute -- victimisation 4AD break Ivo Watts-Russell's This Mortal Coil as something of a templet -- the material released by Piano Magic has ranged from arty baroque period pop to childly electronic knob-twiddling and whatever points you bottom and can't recall of in between. The solitary thread operative through Piano Magic's records, aside from Johnson's presence, is a mother wit of wistfulness. Johnson has explained his desire to soundtrack memories, and with that, Piano Magic has launch their niche.
One early hope of Piano Magic was to avoid the live element. However, when their first single, 1996's Incorrect French, was awarded Single of the Week in Melody Maker, the initial triple matte obligated to wager out in support of it. Along with Paul Tornbohm, the grouping played their first gig and opted not to play any of the real constitute on their records. They besides made no attempt whatsoever to sound anything like their records, so betting odds were pretty skillful that a few curious concert-goers were perplexed after reversive from the shops and auditory modality the studio apartment incarnation of the outfit.
"Gestural" to Che, the label that released Wrong French, the grouping kicked out two more than singles (with one issued on Wurlitzer Jukebox) prior to releasing their first full record, Popular Mechanics, in November 1997. Including some of the additional personnel office featured on the preceding singles, such as vocalists Raechel Leigh and Hazel Burfitt and instrumentalist Martin Cooper, the record threw together some antecedently released real along with a clutch of new songs. As uneven as the record is, its mysteriousness provokes replay later on replay. The band left Che, having been disappointed with their want of exertion. Not surprisingly, the incessant financial flux soon got the c. H. Best of the label.
In 1999, a crazy slew of singles and EPs for labels care Staalplaat, Darla, and Bad Jazz -- including a split single with Matmos for Lissy's -- encircled the release of the second record album, Gloomy Birth Weight (Projectile Girl). Thanks to simply a small more centering and a higher level of tone from beginning to end, the record book is often regarded by fans as their best ferment. In addition to nearly of the prior suspects, Caroline Potter, Alexander Perls, Matt Simpson, Jen Adam, Simon Rivers (Bitter Springs), David Sheppard (Department of State River Widening), and Peter Astor (the Weather Prophets, the Wisdom of Harry) figured into the serve of devising it.
The following class was unmatched of Piano Magic's least fecund, but it inactive spawned a remix EP for Germany's Morr Music and the rather conceptual uncut Artists' Rifles, which bases its national matter in the first World War. It's the group's most consistent work in footing of good. It features none of the electronics heard on prior releases, rather focusing on delicate interplay betwixt drums, guitars, and the cello work of Adrienne Quartly. At some point prior to its recording, Miguel Marin was added to the group's lineup ostensibly as a permanent member.
In 2001, Piano Magic was commissioned to score Spanish theatre director Bigas Luna's Son de Mar. The theatre director had heard Down Birth Weight in a record shop and was impressed enough to ask them to provide music for the film. Peaceful, lulling, breezy, and wholly implemental, the grudge demonstrates Piano Magic's amazing image. Released by 4AD, Son de Mar spawned a trade between the two, and the group began working on the proper followup to Low Birth Weight by and by in the year. To satiate fans and get at hardcore vinyl collectors, Rocket Girl released Seasonally Affective, an thoroughgoing double-disc compilation of singles. Writers Without Homes was finally realized and released in mid-2002. Piano Magic left 4AD presently after, cathartic The Troubled Sleep of Piano Magic in 2003 on Spain's Green UFOs judge and Malcontent in 2005 on Darla.
With the exception of a few brief chicago in Russia, Portugal, and Belgium, the band exhausted the bulk of the following class touring Italy. Another 12" vinyl radical record, Never It Will Be the Same Again (featuring contributions from conceptual artist Bojan Sarcevic), was released during this time. Piano Magic returned to the studio apartment in former 2006, and their ninth full-length, Part Monster, hit stores the following summer.
