Finding Shore
Ambient pioneer Brian Eno has built an entire career subtly transforming experiments into art. Here, with a MIDI device, he tweaks and juxtaposes a series of piano improvisations by Tom Rogerson. Like Eno\'s classic *On Land*, *Finding Shore* is an album of otherworldly pastorals—from the rustling, dawn-like “Idea of Order at Kyson Point” to the ominous fog of “Minor Rift” and the subaqueous “On-ness,” which recalls the beautifully meandering music of ambient godfather Erik Satie.
A collaboration between an improvising pianist and the ambient icon yields an unusual fusion of acoustic and electronic ideas—a meeting of minds that is full of rewarding surprises.
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Pianist Tom Rogerson teams up with ambient royalty on a record that's slow to reveal its beauty, but utterly beguiling when it does.
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