David Dalle
Thursday September 21st, 2017 with David Dalle
Guest pianist and composer Frank Horvat, an Ottawa native, joins me today to talk about his ambitious project, releasing four new albums in four days this week.
Composer and pianist Frank Horvat joins me today to discuss the culmination of his ambitious project to release four new albums in four days, today being the 4th day. Horvat strives for direct emotional connection with these albums, all very personal and either confessional in nature or inspired by events which struck Horvat hard. The four albums cover a varied range of instrumental forces. The albums in order of release are: "Me to We", a chamber album expressing the joy and longing of love; "The Current Agenda", an album of chamber music with electronics covering traumatic political and global events and issues; "You Haven't Been", an album of solo piano with pieces inspired by the composer's struggles with mental health; "Love in 6 Stages", is a song cycle for voice and piano, tracing a love story from initial meeting through bliss to a bitter broken-hearted end.
We will hear compositions from all four albums.
http://frankhorvat.com
Interview with Frank Horvat. |
The selection of pieces I decided upon make a very long journey from darkness into light. |
08/14/13 - Cairo Frank Horvat/Kathryn Ladano - The Current Agenda - I Am Who I Am |
My Fractured Soul Frank Horvat - You Haven't Been - I Am Who I Am |
Silent Struggle Frank Horvat - You Haven't Been - I Am Who I Am |
Fight Frank Horvat/Frank Horvat, Laura Swankey - Love in 6 Stages - I Am Who I Am |
Piano Piece No. 4, For Me & You Frank Horvat/Lisa Raposa, Gregory Millar - Me to We - I Am Who I Am |
Winter Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes - Warner |
Ehmedo - Ez Reben Im Hawniyaz - Hawniyaz - Harmonia Mundi |
C'était il y a longtemps Maurice el Medioni & Roberto Rodriguez - Descarga Oriental The New York Sessions - Piranha |
Really interesting interview with Frank Horvat ongoing as i type. (Though did not catch the first 10-15 minutes or so.) Really looking forward to some extended play of the four works. With lots of context going in. Thank you very much, as usual!
2:34 PM, September 21st, 2017