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"Vicky Chow - Tristan Perich: Surface Image
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New Amsterdam Records is proud to announce Surface Image, the new album-length composition for solo piano with 40-channel 1-bit electronics, composed by Tristan Perich and performed by pianist Vicky Chow.
Surface Image is a stunning marriage of Perich’s inspired electronic aesthetic and Chow's nuanced yet fiercely virtuosic playing. The line between electric and organic is artistically blurred, as the simple hand-wired electronics fuse with the individual notes of the piano on the same, expansive plane. Recorded at EMPAC’s sound studio by producer Argeo Ascani and mix engineer Jeffrey Svatek.
"Gorgeous...played by the virtuoso Vicky Chow" – RHAPSODY
"A brilliant, glittering web of piano and 1-bit electronics"
– WONDERING SOUND/JOHN SCHAEFER
"A masterpiece of (Post)Romantic proportions: an epic struggle between man and machine, pushing the piano beyond the limits of playability. There are moments of breakneck virtuosity and profound lyricism, beauty and menace. It is both an alien landscape and one that's eerily familiar." – FEAST OF MUSIC
"Album of the Week" - "Microcosmic fascination aside, Surface Image's power comes from the sublime, sheer power of its whole...creates a universe all its own."
– Q2 MUSIC
"The depth gathered in just the first nine minute bulk of Surface Image alone is brilliantly wearing, folding pixels and wires over themselves in a dizzying manner to smooth and lull." – TINY MIX TAPES
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