The atmospheric, minimalist piano of James Heather is this week’s New Music Guide highlight.
Biomes is part of an album, entitled Stories From Far Away On Piano, which has its eye on world news, but does bring things closer to Heather’s home on Pathos. “Pathos is an appeal to emotion, a way of bringing the listener in, to evoke an empathetic response,” he says of the track. “This is my interpretation of stories I discovered. The stories themselves are not the focus, but the piano assimilation is, as the album is about viewpoint, opinion and perspective.”
Heather is due at the Solidarity Of Arts Festival in Gdańsk, Poland on August 26th, and will also play at show on November 4th at the National Concert Hall in Dublin.
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