Serial Serenade (A Night Trilogy For Solo Piano Pt. I)

by Arp Dinkelaker

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1.	Prologue - Contemplate in D Minor 03:47	buy track
2.	Undulate in C Major 04:11	buy track
3.	Stride in D Minor Var. I 02:58	buy track
4.	Prance in D Minor 02:57	buy track
5.	Undulate in E Flat Minor 02:48	buy track
6.	Shiver in G Minor 03:41	buy track
7.	Urge in G Minor 02:57	buy track
8.	Rage & Freeze in A Minor 05:40	buy track
9.	Yearn in E Flat Minor 03:27	buy track
10.	Epilogue I - Soothe in A Major 02:14	buy track
11.	Epilogue II - Sleep in C Major 02:43	buy track

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The album “Serial Serenade” is the first part of "A Night Trilogy for Solo Piano". Its topic is the evening, the blue hour, the transition from being awake to falling asleep.

“The album is a literal serenade: The tracks came up at a time when the kids wanted to listen to some piano music while falling asleep and, at some point, it was part of the ritual that I had to keep playing until they really had fallen asleep. I gave all and tried everything: intimate little threads of melody like in a slow movement from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, but also shimmering, serial, mesmerizing ‚acoustic techno‘.“

Instead of a classic tempo designation such as “Allegro” or “Largo”, each track has an English verb as a designation that describes the movement´s mood.

“I wanted to stay classically abstract when naming the pieces, because they aren’t songs but rather classical piano pieces such as bagatelles or nocturnes. However, I also wanted to dust off the terminology a little. Therefore this a somewhat different type of designation …“

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released October 3, 2020

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Arp Dinkelaker Berlin, Germany

A designer/musician based in Berlin with a frayed musical background: classical education (violin, piano, composing) as teen; record deal and release of the 2 most unknown pop albums of the 90s as twen, then devoting himself to studying architecture, minimal art, and electronic music. Ever since he's been working on a synthesis of all of these quite incompatible facets of his musical biography. ... more

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