Hidden Heartache, by SIMONE KELLER

Hidden Heartache

by SIMONE KELLER

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1.	Irene Higginbotham (1918-1988): „Good Morning Heartache“ (1946/2022) 03:26	info	buy track
2.	Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953): Prelude No.7 (1928) 02:00	info	buy track
3.	Ruth Crawford Seeger: „Piano Study in Mixed Accents” 01:27	info	buy track
4.	Olga Diener (1890-1963): Klavier-Fantasie op. 39 (1945) 07:12	info	buy track
5.	Jessie Cox (*1995): „Black/blackness: After Mantra(s)” (2022) 16:29	info	buy track
6.	Abathar Kmash (*1987): „Basalt بازلت“ 04:37	info	buy track
7.	Jessie Marino (*1984): „Slender Threads” (2020) 11:48	info	buy track
8.	Olga Diener: „Kin-Spiel“ op.43: III (1948) 03:15	info	buy track
9.	Hidden Track 1: Irene Higginbotham: „Good Morning Heartache“ 1 04:59	info
10.	Hidden Track 2: Irene Higginbotham: „Good Morning Heartache“ 2 02:54	info
11.	Julia Amanda Perry (1924-1979): Prelude (1946/1962) 03:15	info	buy track
12.	Julius Eastman (1940-1990): „Piano 2”: I (1986) 07:17	info	buy track
13.	Julius Eastman (1940-1990): „Piano 2”: II (1986) 03:31	info	buy track
14.	Julius Eastman (1940-1990): „Piano 2”: III (1986) 04:55	info	buy track
15.	Abathar Kmash: „Blau أزرق" 04:40	info	buy track
16.	Julie Herndon (*1986): „Mirrors“ (2021) 06:51	info	buy track
17.	Olga Diener: Klavier-Fantasie op. 36 (1945) 07:37	info	buy track
18.	Cristina Janett (*1986): „Richtig Schottisch” (2022) 02:36	info	buy track
19.	Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971): „Four Famous Standards: Just For A Thrill / Bad Boy / Oriental Swing / Struttin’ With Some Barbecue“ (1928-1957/2022) 10:38	info	buy track
20.	Hidden Track 3: Irene Higginbotham: „Good Morning Heartache“ 3 03:45	info
21.	Hidden Track 4: Irene Higginbotham: „Good Morning Heartache“ 4 03:58	info
22.	Hidden Track 5: Irene Higginbotham: „Good Morning Heartache“ 5 02:55	info

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Hidden Heartache is 100 minutes of piano music from the last 100 years in the context of social inequality and unequal power relations. The Swiss pianist Simone Keller is both courageous and fearless with an eye for the essentials and for the big issues of the day. The album is a self-portrait and an homage, with Keller asking herself which piano music of the last 100 years deserves greater attention. « It soon becomes obvious that there are thousands of hours of unheard, unplayed works by underrepresented composers. The selection I ultimately made is very personal, and closely connected to my own pianistic activities. But it was also very important to me that Hidden Heartache should not merely gather together historical figures, but also present compositions of today that reveal varied perspectives on societal and power inequalities while at the same time paying homage to the music of Julius Eastman and Julia Amanda Perry. These new works by the Swiss composers Jessie Cox and Cristina Janett, and the Americans Julie Herndon and Jessie Marino, were created in direct collaboration with me », writes Simone Keller.

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released March 15, 2024

Simone Keller: Piano
Abathar Kmash: Oud
Valeria Curti: Bassoon
Michael Flury: Trombone
Philip Bartels: Arrangements & Toy Pianos

Recorded on October 1 and 2, 2022, at Stadthaus Winterthur, Switzerland, by Michaela Wiesbeck. Mixed and mastered by Michaela Wiesbeck. Cover art: Jungle Books. Graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Liner notes: Franziska Buhre. Photo: Palma Fiacco. Intakt Records, P. O. Box, 8024 Zürich, Switzerland. www.intaktrec.ch

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Simone Keller Zürich, Switzerland

Simone Keller, a classical pianist by training but with a transversal and interdisciplinary outlook. As an artist and performer, she feels at home in contemporary music, musical theatre, improvisation, and in experimental and participatory formats.

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