DG signs hybrid pianist
Daily Comfort ZoneThe yellow ones in Berlin have released virgin video of a pianist-composer from Lebanon via Germany who, they say, blends ‘Chopin, minimalism and Armenian flair’.
“My music is not typically classical or neoclassical or avant-garde; it’s something in between,” says Marie Awadis. “When I compose, I have feelings, pictures, stories or places in my mind, rather than a sequence of themes moving across a pre-planned structure. The ideal, for me, is to combine my own intuitive approach with the rhythmic precision of American minimalism, the spirituality of European minimalism and the emotions of Armenian music. Because that’s me – an Armenian-Lebanese-German combination.”
Liked it.
4 minutes of the same thing.
Beethoven’s 5th is about 35 min of the same thing, but…
No, it isn’t.
Defending this music and using the Beethoven 5th as evidence just makes me SMH. They just want to stay in the convo, so they say something big so outrageous and inflammatory we are forced to weigh in. I’m trying to get better at not trying to educate online id@#ts but it’s so haaaarrrd!
DG does dreck once more. Just when one thinks they are on the way to self-correction, they lose their way with deliberation. Poor DG. Sigh.
Derivative. Might want to consider a shoe-shopping date with Patricia Kopatchinskaya.
Einaudi got fierce competition. The battle for market shares of the musak audience goes on. And DG goes even more down.
To enter into the artist’s world, I listened to her without shoes and socks.
A hybrid pianist? Is she playing a semi electric piano?
Those of us of a certain age will think of the Windham Hill record label. Sort of Mark Isham meets Richard Nanes, if those names register at all with you.