Poppy Ackroyd - Escapement FLAC album

This is way too minimalistic to my taste

Poppy Ackroyd prides herself on the meticulous source manipulation. Extracting every sound (except the field recordings) from her piano and the violin, Edinburgh based Ackroyd constructs seven beautiful pieces that showcase her interest in both, contemporary laptop processing and classical piano music. Discovering the world of sound “beyond the keys“, Ackroyd composes music that elicits every bit of essence out of her instruments. Using fingers, e-bows, and plectrums she plucks, strums, and taps out the stringed and percussive elements of her sound. But this concept is only the beginning. If you haven’t read this description you wouldn’t know the process with which Ackroyd creates her magic. The music easily swoops the listener into its cinematic, atmospheric and at times nostalgic world. With numerous layers, the compositions mimic an entire orchestra, where even the dampers of her restored piano turn into drums. “‘Escapement’ is the part of the mechanism in a piano that enables the hammer to be released, so that the string can vibrate once it is struck. It can also mean the physical act of escaping, and in the context of this album it refers to the release of emotions through the instrument.” Although Escapement is Ackroyd’s debut on Denovali Records, if you have witnessed Hidden Orchestra perform you would have noticed her behind the keys. As did I…