SKALA by Ghost Flute & Dice

Piano, electronics, surround, watertower.

SKALA was commissioned by Piano Days Copenhagen and premiered at Brønshøj Watertower in 2022. This studio recording was made in the winter of 2023/24. The acoustics of the watertower and the six channel surround system used live have been emulated with binaural mixing and using a digital recording of the reverb in the watertower.

The album includes the same music in two slightly different versions. The first five tracks corresponds to the entire composition divided into its different parts. The sixth track is the same composition and recording just with added watertower ambience between the five parts and then put together for continual listening.

The booklet includes link to an amazing 40-minute video that accompanies the entire album. All downloads of the album include a PDF booklet, with a Vimeo-link on the last page. From here you can either watch or download the entire video. For optimal experience download the video and watch on a laptop while listening on headphones - preferably in a darkish room, maybe with some tea handy.

Ghost Flute & Dice is a project by danish pianist Mikkel Almholt. Back in 2009 a long-time intention to make music for solo piano suddenly started to take shape, when the piano was combined with different effects. Since then its been a question of trying to home in on a speciel kind of sound and touch using different effect setups, new playing techniques, and colaborations with other musicians.

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