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Hauschka - Foreign Landscapes

Review by Rory Gibb

Foreign Landscapes' similar tone throughout ensures it can quite quickly drift pass pleasantly without making too many demands on the listener.»

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• 8/10 by Yurodivyi

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new full-length from hauschka. prepared piano and strings from fatcat's critically acclaimed 130701 modern classical imprint. this album features the 12-piece ensemble the magik magik orchestra, for whom hauschka arranged orchestrations around his prepared piano performances. 'foreign landscapes' retains its author's distictive musical voice and leads the listener through a beautifully balanced collection, moving from delicate solo piano lyricism to a propulsive, robust minimalism. now dark and intimate, now playful, now driving, the ensemble's fleshed-out instrumentation enables hauschka to bring his exuberant versatility to a vital new level. with 'foreign landscapes', hauschka stretches for - and reaches - stunning new realms. this album will appeal to fans of max richter, johann johannsson, dustin o'halloran, sylvain chauveau and yann tiersen.
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