{"product_id":"mckelway-chris-and-welch-john-piano-music","title":"MCKELWAY, CHRIS AND WELCH, JOHN - Piano Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=927007323\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePiano Music\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a double-album of works for piano by two brilliant musicians: Chris McKelway and John Welsh. Both of these people have been moving beacons in my own inquiry into what will count as a really musical life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMcKelway's collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBest Of\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, is a collection of private and occasional works for himself — as well as works for others brought back to CM's home instrument — from the past 15 years or so. Remediations of Chopin, Donnie Hathaway, and Tom Jobim threaded through lieder whose words have been suppressed but reappear as unrecoverable in the liner notes. Chris's material sensitivity to the instrument puts me in mind of the Marx Brothers — a fluid, physical comedy that might at first be mistaken for a compensation for a missing utterance until you're caught lingering with what the music has been saying throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWelsh's collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoundaries, Endurance \/ Resolutions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, consists of two substantial works separated by improvisatory intermezzi by himself and McKelway. Here John is continuing his music research into \"the cultural and scientific reality of harmony,\" as he puts it in his liner notes to the album. When I first heard this music I was returned to 2016, when John and I were living together in New York, where we played in a number of projects together, including Speaker World, Causings, and Tongues. One day he asked me to come into his room to show me something. When I opened the door I saw that he had laid out thousands of pennies in extremely orderly rows throughout the otherwise bare wooden floor of his bedroom, having articulated a complex algorithmic pattern of heads and tails producing some harmonic relationships that he was exploring in his music. This is, like Sonny Rollins, centripetal music at its finest: burrowing into its interior aperture to reveal the bounded infinity of harmony.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn total, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePiano Music\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers 16 pieces over 90 minutes tracing the two composers' pathways for twenty-first century piano music.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition of 200 2xCDs in jewel case.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereleases August 15, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChris McKelway: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBest Of\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn Welsh: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoundaries, Endurance \/ Resolutions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eComposed, performed, and recorded by Chris McKelway and John Welsh.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMastered by Chris McKelway\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLiner note essay by John Andrew Wilhite\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdditional liner notes by Chris McKelway and John Welsh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCover Image: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSilent Hill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2024) by Yuehao Jiang\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished in 2026 by Reading Group, RG35\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reading Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49001586786523,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/files\/rg35-460.jpg?v=1784749088","url":"https:\/\/www.fusetronsound.com\/products\/mckelway-chris-and-welch-john-piano-music","provider":"fusetron","version":"1.0","type":"link"}