It's noun or never: each of the 16 titles on Discourses containing at least one 'the', solo piano from Jon Balke is in focus once again on this upcoming album to be released on ECM in mid-May.
Recorded in Lugano four months ago you can listen to 'The Why', a dark lento meditation, sequenced in the middle of the album above.
This latest is the Norwegian's third such album, and is the next on from Warp released four years ago Balke notes: "As the political climate hardened in 2019 with more and more polarized speech, the lack of dialogue pointed me towards the terms that constitute the titles for the tracks."
Jon Balke, photo: ECM
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