PIANO'S ABYSS is a vertical and progressive immersion within the "abyss" of the piano, an exploration of the expressive soul of the instrument through electronic synthesis, towards the discovery of an evocative and mysterious world that is exclusively constituted by the drone of the piano.

The vibrations of the strings, the instrument's resonances, the mechanical noises of the pedals and the hammers are electronically processed, twisted and warped until they are oceans away from their original sound, metamorphosing in textures rich in rhythmical and dynamic evolutions, in inexplicable and undecipherable drones, in vortexes and exhalations that seem to emerge from the darkness of our inner depths. A special care was devoted to the spectral analysis, the resonances and the possible superimpositions of the frequencies of the sounds chosen as starting points for the sonic manipulations.

PIANO'S ABYSS takes the listener to hitherto unexplored depths, within seas alive with shadows and lights in constant transformation. A sonically visionary journey into the piano and into ourselves, in search of those arcane vibrations pulsating in dark abysses, enticing us with all their seductiveness.

PIANO'S ABYSS is the first chapter of a series of albums dedicated to unconventional timbre experimentation, giving birth to what is almost a whole new experimental genre: "piano drone music”. The artistic, compositional and technical aspects of the album was illustrated by Angelina Yershova during her workshop "Composing while Improvising – Sound and Space" @ META.MORF Festival in Trondheim (Norway).

music composed, performed, recorded, produced,
mixed & mastered by Angelina Yershova

artwork: Angelina Yershova
label: Twin Paradox Records
catalog: TPR 003

released March 21, 2016

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         Some Feedback:

 

• ATTN: MAGAZINE / Review / UK
  

  "Yershova's melodies dance amidst the strange waves, sometimes mournfully spellbound by their tidal surges and stormy sibilance, and sometimes enrapt in states of jubilant, energised arpeggio. I hear piano as solid object, piano as liquified ambience, piano as vaporous phantom."

• NUCLEOARTZINE / Interview / Italy
  

  "Ascoltando le tracce di Piano’s Abyss si ha da subito l’impressione di intraprendere un viaggio, anche in relazione ai titoli dei brani, fortemente evocativi. Cosa puoi dirci in merito?" (Paolo Gatti)

• SILENCE AND SOUND / Review  / France

  "With Angelina Yershova the piano takes an unusual air, and we are plunged into a space where the lights meet and entwine on floating crossroads.."  (Rolando Torres Martin)
  

• ROMASUONA / Review / Italy
  

  "PIANO'S ABYSS è un lavoro decisamente originale e intelligente, che pur inserendosi nella cosiddetta “ambient” o “drone” music è in realtà portatore di un disegno preciso e audace, in cui emerge tutto lo spessore di un artista di estrazione classica e dalle molteplici influenze culturali." (Alex Marenga a.k.a AMPTEK)
  

• KINDAMUZIC / Review / Holland
  

  "Rich in texture and with long and vast spectral horizons... Seductive and alluring." (Sven Schijper)

• GROOVE / Review / Germany
  

  "Piano Abyss (Twin Paradox) nimmt ihr handwerkliches Können, ihre klassische Ausbildung am Arbeitsgerät zurück zugunsten einer ambienten Klangforschung, einer bedachten Suche nach unbekannten Aspekten ihres so überaus wohlbekannten und wohltemperierten Instruments."