This US pianist will improve your wellness
Daily Comfort ZoneWe’ve received an invitation from Decca Records US to ‘a special breathwork and meditation session’ with pianist Chad Lawson, who is ‘also a top wellness podcaster’.
Chad Lawson invites you to breathe in, calm the mind, and release tension you do not need. Meditation on the breath has been practiced for thousands of years and in breathe, Chad combines this technique with his music so his audience can let go of today’s modern stressors.
On his luminous new album breathe, Lawson expands on the intentionality he brought to his 2020 effort You Finally Knew by delivering an exquisitely crafted and genre-transcending body of work. Partly informed by his work as creator and host of the “Calm It Down” podcast, breathe ultimately establishes Lawson as an essential voice exploring the intersection of music and wellness.
One for the Comfort Zone, I guess.
Chacun à son goût, comme toujours…
I personally yearn for the days when a new recording by a pianist meant something like Alfred Brendel playing Schubert sonatas or Vladimir Ashkenazy playing Rachmaninov preludes…but that’s just me.
Top piano soloist makes ends meet with side hustle…
And bodybuilding guru Barto has blessed us with a Well Tempered Clavier — I am surprised you haven’t noticed.
Breathtaking bumf
Here’s a classier solution: Listen to Delius.
Some of us SD commenters no doubt could use his services.
While not as good as Max Richter, I definitely place Chad Lawson well above Einaudi ( who to me is little better than a con artist — but each to his/her own).
The works—such as they are—recycle and package lyrical fragments from better composers like Michael Nyman, removing all trace of artistic personality in the process. This grift might work out to be profitable, as it apparently has for Max Richter.
Translations: “genre-transcending” = crossover twaddle
“intentionality”= E-Z Listenin’