beautiful solo piano (inna 20th cent. stylee) s/d

Highly recommend Hall of Mirrors, the new album by Neil Cowley. He's had a fairly successful career with his jazz trio but has now taken a left turn into fairly ambient minimalism. It's a gorgeous record.

I like this by Hantrax: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/gazebo-compositions

fav track: “oh dear”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9jaC5BbbSk

Here's a taste of the Neil Cowley, and I realize now it's not actually solo piano. Still great though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efnX0MZRNTE

I like the Cowley, tho yeah, not solo piano.

That one orders the vinyl of the Hantrax through bandcamp but one has to order digital files through iTunes, which I won't do, is fucking ludicrous. Too bad, they lost a customer.

Pretty sure I heard about it on here somewhere, but the Leo Svirsky record from 2019 is lovely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCp7A9f1zu0

Liking the Jokubaviciute very much.

has hans otte been mentioned here? this record is unbelievable: https://beaconsound.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-sounds

aero turned me on to this years ago and I listen to it all the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-YKjiBsiow

And I LOVE this record

... https://jadjemian.bandcamp.com/album/adequacies

ten from the last ten years (or thereabouts), all variously adjacent to "minimalist", post-Cagean compositional trends (links where available)

Dennis Johnson – November
Terry Jennings / John Tilbury ‎– Lost Daylight
Melaine Dalibert – Infinite Ascent
Eva-Maria Houben – Works For Piano
Jürg Frey – Circles And Landscapes
Martin Arnold – Points and Waltzes
Bryn Harrison – Vessels
Christian Wolff / Philip Thomas – Pianist: Pieces
Tim Parkinson – Piano Piece - Piano Piece
Laurence Crane – 20th Century Music - Solo Piano Pieces 1985-1999

(apologies for title capitalisation errors, I was c&p-ing from discogs)

Glad people like Northscapes. It's one of the albums that has grabbed me most from this year.

if we're talking solo piano albums from 2021, bruno duplant's l'infini des possibles is one of the more beautiful things I've heard all year (though judging by the rolling classical threads i get the impression that contemporary wandelweiser type stuff isn't much appreciated here)

https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/bruno-duplant-linfini-des-possibles

Listening to that Hans Otte record for the first time and it's really really nice

(after hearing it mentioned in an interview with Dustin O'Halloran)

man, i love that otte record

A few things to add here since the last time I popped in:

there's this record by Saloli, which is just really beautiful and calming and a bit romantic.
Saloli- The Island: Music for Piano Vol. 1
https://saloli.bandcamp.com/album/the-island-music-for-piano-vol-i

and I also think that this might have made my best of 2021 list had I heard it before the last week of December and spent more time with it. It's really lovely solo piano that's then been arranged and looped by the player. Perhaps not "pure" solo piano, but I think it counts, and it's a remarkable record, I think.
kafari- Blanket of Black
https://kafarimusic.bandcamp.com/album/blanket-of-black

Nice new tape from Séance Centre, the Guadeloupian pianist Allan Gilbert Balon.

https://allangilbertbalon.bandcamp.com/album/so-lo-piano-works-vol-1

Saw Neil Cowley last night. Concert hall venue, just him, two keyboards, a modular synth, a Steinway and a bunch of tellies, broadcasting static. He was really good company and it was just what I needed.

William Duckworth - The Time Curve Preludes

Saw Neil Cowley last night. Concert hall venue, just him, two keyboards, a modular synth, a Steinway and a bunch of tellies, broadcasting static. He was really good company and it was just what I needed.

William Duckworth - The Time Curve Preludes

https://michaelharrison.bandcamp.com/album/revelation

Michael Harrison, anybody? Really nice just intonation stuff. Maybe I heard about him on this board?

sounding perfect this morning

answers the question 'what if beautiful solo piano (inna 20th cent. stylee) was in just intonation?'
i like it

That album is a classic

I like the pieces that are in alternate keys than the base note of the just tuning, gorgeous stuff

this one is niiiice https://bruce-brubaker.bandcamp.com/album/eno-piano

There's also this from 2000: https://www.discogs.com/master/876299-Arturo-Stàlteri-From-The-Music-Of-Brian-Eno-CoolAugustMoon – which I think is mostly piano versions with string embellishments?

Oops! Here's the link, maybe that won't break.