Suzanne Ciani - Music For Denali '2020

Tracks list

Finders Keepers prize a gorgeous 1973 soundtrack of keys and isolationist
electronics from the Ciani archive showcasing a rarer minimalist side -
revelatory stuff, think Harmonia and Eno meets Mika Vainio and Christina Kubisch

Created for a film about a skier making the first descent of Alaska’s
highest mountain, ‘Music For Denali’ affords an ideal canvas for
Ciani to explore her talents as a pianist alongside her natural gift for
evocative electronic scene-scaping. It fatefully frames an artist emerging into
the world of composing sound for cinema, and with it captures a precious sense
of wide-eyed innocence and confidence in her abilities, with results that no
doubt take us to some subarctic peak with a little imagination on your part.

Carving from widescreen optimism to airborne pastoral flights in seven succinct
cues and themes, it’s perhaps the more abstract, spacious works full of
windswept enigma and sparing piano such as ‘Mount McKinlay’, the
trembling intimacy of ‘Koyukuk’, and the ice palace grandeur of the
album’s magnificent peak ‘Analogue Mountain’ that best
display Ciani’s masterful, painterly grasp of noise sculpture and ability
to conjure natural world vistas. 

Basically everyone from Buchla fans to lovers of spirited ‘70s synth
soundtracks, earliest new age and the eternal promise of kosmiche might buzz off
this one, and it might even give a refreshed new perspective on the Grammy
nominated and million selling artist’s whole oeuvre - heck it’s as
good as place as any to dive in if you’re new in the water.

Tracklist: 
01. Suzanne Ciani - Denali (3:36)
02. Suzanne Ciani - Bolshaya Gora (3:41)
03. Suzanne Ciani - Mount McKinley (3:30)
04. Suzanne Ciani - Yukon (1:31)
05. Suzanne Ciani - Koyukuk (1:50)
06. Suzanne Ciani - Analogue Mountain (4:03)
07. Suzanne Ciani - Quartz Monzonite (3:41)

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