Eluvium Pianoworks Black Vinyl Edition

Pianoworks is Eluvium's first solo piano album since hissophomore album, An Accidental Memory In The Case OfDeath (2004). Inspired by the quiet thoughts and solitaryobservations of children - and the evolution/dissolution of that ephemeral, uncorrupted wonder of simple joy - Pianoworksbegins with a song about children's piano lessons, andculminates with an etude driven by the struggle to hold ontoinnocence and imagination as adulthood settles in. Therecord's dramatic simplicity in both execution and expressionis with purpose: Cooper wants the music to be simple enoughto inspire children and novices to play, and the conceptsimple enough to resonate regardless of age or experience.As any minimalist painter, poet, or architect can attest, it isoftentimes the profoundly simple art that proves to be themost time-consuming and torturous to produce. Pianoworksexemplifies this dichotomy, having been recorded,re-recorded, and re-re-recorded in the span of nearly adecade. Cooper exhausted every attempt to achieve a veryspecific, peculiar sound that is out of time - a sound notentirely lost in an attic, but also one not easily found in aplaylist. The process to achieve this elusive sound waspainstaking, but it has yielded a rare kind of music that is asuncomplicated as it is uncompromised.