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Transcend!

by Nick Peck

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Lin-Lan-Lone (The Piano is a Bell) 01:17
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2.
Transcend! 07:44
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3.
The Orb Weaver 05:02
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4.
Backrooms 03:33
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5.
Longing 01:30
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6.
Teaser 03:28
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7.
Inner Beauty 03:31
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8.
Love 05:11
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9.
The Knight's Regret 03:16
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10.
Passacaglia 07:43
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11.
Valley of 10,000 Bells 03:08
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These pieces were recorded very quickly over a few days at my home studio. Some were based on rough sketches of a tune or ostinato - everything else was completely improvised.

"Lin-lan-lone" is found in a line by Blake: "What sound was dearest in his native dells? The mellow lin-lan-lone of evening bells..."

"Transcend" and "Passacaglia" are improvisations on a set of synthesizer patterns. I was thinking of the work of Klaus Schulze and John Surman. I met John on a few occasions when he guested with my high school band. He was extremely funny, encouraging and down to earth - (at the time I had not yet become aware of his original music).

"The Orb Weaver" was a garden spider who took up residence outside my kitchen window during the fall of 2020 and was my only friend during that period. Disappeared following a storm and was never seen of again.

"Inner Beauty" & "Teaser" are improvisations on simple tunes I sketched out. I later added some synthesizer parts in order to expand upon the harmonics I hear emitted by the piano.

"Backrooms" Is an improvisation that has no-clipped beyond the bounds of our reality and is searching for a way home.

"Longing" is an improvisation that searches for something, but what? A vacation? True love? A pizza?

"Love", is like "Jazz", in that it means radically different things to different people.

"The Knight's Regret"; he reflects on the lives of those he took and those he lost and wonders why he alone was spared - destined to spend an eternity never reaching the end.

"The Valley of 10000 Bells" is an improvisation on a raga of my own invention. I tuned the chimes by hand using a ruler, calculator and a hacksaw. A raga is then expanded upon in a (predominantly) stepwise fashion. I subsequently found my neighbors' set to be tuned an augmented fourth away. I was later arrested in the middle of the night armed with a hacksaw. My case comes up next month.

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released January 8, 2024

Nick Peck: Piano, Synthesizers, Electric Guitar, Shakers, Chime bars, Bells, Water Bowls, 12-String Guitar, Electric Bass, Blender 3D modeling & cover artwork.

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Nick Peck British Columbia

Nick Peck is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who has performed across Canada and Europe.

His recorded music blurs the lines between composition and improvisation, sometimes evolving into vast multi-tracked symphonic forms, colored by experiences performing jazz, contemporary classical, folk, electronic and freely improvised music. ... more

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