Retroludes Vol. 1, by Daniel Hines

Retroludes Vol. 1

by Daniel Hines

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1.	A Short Verse 00:58	buy track
2.	The Chrysalis 06:40	buy track
3.	Corridor Of Ice 02:23	buy track
4.	The Grey Waltz 03:26	buy track
5.	C/F 01:31	buy track
6.	Shifting Colours 04:08	buy track
7.	Telecoms 02:42	buy track
8.	Slightly Magical 03:29	buy track
9.	Haunted Amphitheatre 02:39	buy track
10.	Scavengers 04:10	buy track
11.	Skyscrapers In Fog 04:20	buy track
12.	Snow In The Streetlights 06:44	buy track

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All of these pieces were composed at various points between 2010 and 2020 or thereabouts, and all of them were ideas that I thought may have turned into orchestrated big pieces either for a classical ensemble or Verdris Moth or something else, but none of them felt quite right progressing beyond the piano.

The earliest of them is The Grey Waltz, an early version of which I composed during my years at Keele University in about 2010/11. I believe Snow In The Streetlights and Skyscrapers In Fog came next a couple of years later, when I was vaguely thinking of assembling these ideas into a set. All the rest came up during improvising sessions in the years following that. Many of them started as short seeds of not much more than 16 bars or so, and took years to finally get built up into proper full pieces.

I wouldn't say any of the pieces has a particular story behind it by which it was inspired, but they're all pretty expressive and hold a lot of personal memories, and they're all (relatively) short-form, hence "Retroludes", as in retrospective preludes.

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released October 25, 2021

All music composed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Daniel Hines.

Album artwork drawing by Daisy Wake.

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Daniel Hines England, UK

NEW VERDRIS MOTH ALBUM, "THE MORPHING ROAD", OUT NOW!

Pianist, composer, and one-man record label.

Solo piano music, and "Verdris Moth" -eclectic instrumental rock.

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