Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. I’ve been doing it for about five years now. Most months. This was my first time in for 2021.
For my final session of 2021 I found two albums that featured covers, moving the original songs to solo piano; two instrumental albums that made me dig down deep into them, but also sent me back to the source material for further listens…
First up I talked about the new Brian Wilson album, At My Piano. And I played his new solo version of the Beach Boys song he wrote 50+ years ago, Til I Die.
Then I talked about a new album by a British pianist called Demian Dorelli. His Pink Moon, a Journey on Piano is a song-by-song recreation of Nick Drake’s Pink Moon from 1972. These new versions shift the songs from guitar to piano and remove the vocals. I played the song Road.
To hear the songs and the chat click here.
As always, you can read my written reviews of the Brian Wilson here and the Demian Dorelli here.
To listen to previous RNZ review segments click here
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