Rivers and Streams
Lubomyr Melnyk returns with his new album ‘Rivers and Streams’, the embodiment of his signature style Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk has often felt that his unique Continuous Music playing is akin to water – flowing and ever connected. As he further developed his technique, and the more the notes flowed, the closer to water he felt. “I found my hands and arms and everything inside them changing from normal muscle and flesh to well...water.”
Ukrainian pianist and composer Lubomyr Melnyk has spent his career developing a method of performance called "continuous music," one that splits the difference between Minimalism and New Age. His shifting chords and rising crescendos will click easily for those who follow post-rock bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Explosions in the Sky.
Intense and slightly suffocating this might be, but it's impossible not to be moved - often to tears - by these compositions.
Lubomyr Melnyk has devised his own technique of the "continuous piano" which, according to his website, allows him to play "the most number...
Lubomyr Melnyk’s story may be as interesting as the music he has created spanning a career of 40 years. Ukrainian by birth, he spent much of his
He can play up to 19.5 notes per second – but the Ukrainian pianist’s moving new album proves there’s more to his talent than speed