Using a unique proprietary device, this solo piano album is a veritable symphonic experience.

This album could easily have turned top-heavy. After all, here’s a record which, in just under 40 minutes, covers anything from Arabic scales to Japanese sounds, from free jazz references to concepts by Kari Ikonen’s favorite painter Vasiliy Kandinsky. To realize his vision, Ikonen even personally developed a device allowing him to play micro-intervals on his piano. And yet, things turned out differently: If anything, the results sound dream-like and mesmerizing rather than stodgy and severe.

The album’s genesis may serve to explain this paradox. In August of 2019, Ikonen suddenly found himself with a month of free time. Without thinking twice and as if in a premonition of the Covid-lock-down, he recorded this album at his own home. His only companion was his beloved Steinway, captured by a personal selection of high-end microphones.