Equally useful for amateur practicing and professional use, ballet class and choir rehearsal, uprights have become ubiquitous facilitators of music making of all varieties. Due to their compactness and cost-friendliness comparative to grand pianos, upright pianos made their way into almost every home around the globe. The upright pianos have been a beloved home piano for almost two centuries. That being said the best upright pianos out there are marvelous musical instruments and serve their purpose quite well. Here we have to say with absolute transparency: uprights need not be compared to grands as the comparison is inherently unfair: grand will always sound richer, with more color and powerful resonance due to the physics of the construction: parallel position of the hammer on the grand allows for more responsive, fast action and sound control while soundboard and frame (due to the physics of the grand piano architecture) have more immediate air to spread vibrations around (which is a function of all acoustic pianos), resulting in overall more resonant sound. horizontal (like the grand piano) and the hammer has to strike the key essentially vertically. are secondary considerations to the fact that the soundboard and frame are upright vs. All the other attributes such as space saver, design, convenience, etc. the hammer being at a 90-degree angle relative to the keys. The main thing to know about the upright piano is that it is fundamentally different from the grand piano due to its physical parameters, i.e. It comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, true, and we shall get to it shortly.
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Full itinerary below.Does it usually stand by the wall? Yes. He plays Club Helsinki in Hudson, NY on Saturday, April 4.
Watt also adds an extra date to his upcoming North American tour. It was followed by Fever Dream in 2016, which caused The Guardian to comment, "In his early fifties Watt in making some of the best music of his career." 2014's acclaimed "comeback" album, Hendra won Best Second Album at the AIM Awards, UK. Storm Damage completes a compelling trilogy of albums since Watt's late-flowering return to solo songwriting and singing six years ago after ten years as an acclaimed DJ-remixer-label boss with Buzzin' Fly and seventeen in multi-million-selling duo, Everything But The Girl with Tracey Thorn.
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The production - a contemporary hybrid blend of Watt’s new "future-retro trio" (upright piano, double bass, acoustic-electronic drums), pulsing vocoder and impressionistic samples - sees the song open on a "stuck" piano hook before breaking free under cascading synths and Watt’s urgent vocal. The random nature of both can leave you feeling insignificant, lacking agency in the world, but in the end, I guess you have a simple choice: to get up and celebrate what you have, or get out and take issue with it." "I wrote it in a period of personal crisis and political upheaval. "It’s a call to action in response to feelings of powerlessness," says Watt of the song.
Watch the video for "Figures in the Landscape" - BELOW: The single is accompanied by a powerful half-lit performance video directed by photographer-film-maker Edward Bishop and shot at RAK Studios in London, where the album was recorded in April 2019. It follows the recent singles "Balanced on a Wire," described by BlackBook as "one of the most visceral pieces of music he’s ever recorded" and premiered on Lauren Laverne’s BBC 6 Music show, and "Irene" featuring Low's Alan Sparhawk. "Figures in the Landscape" is the latest single to be taken from musician-writer-DJ Ben Watt's upcoming fourth solo LP, Storm Damage, out on January 31, 2020.
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