Bistrot of Art Music takes you to a stunning world with their new neoclassical album “Gravity, or the Starry Night above Oman.” This piano solo for the movies is less a song than an experience, but a pensive, shimmering meditation that soars between earth and stars. Listeners seeking solace in the neoclassical realm, which is to say, anyone who finds Balm-With-Drawback in the likes of Ólafur Arnalds, Max Richter, or solo-related Nils Frahm work, will find themselves a tender companion with this one.
The piece began with a soft tug, as if gravity were gently pulling you into its tranquil orbit. Every note lights with purpose as if set there by starlight on desert sand. Despite all that space, however, there’s no sense of hurry here; the feeling is one of great space and great reverence. It’s the type of work that doesn’t scream, but whispers. It’s a quiet gem for fans of soft instrumental and solo piano.
“Gravity, or the Starry Night above Oman” doesn’t just show you a picture of Oman’s starry skies; it lets you feel them. The softness of the keystrokes is moonlight; the silence between phrases is the night expanding; the whole piece is what it feels like to turn your face to the sky and slowly exhale beneath a canopy of stars. There is grace in the restraint and power in the simplicity. In “Gravity, or the Starry Night above Oman,” the Bistrot of Art Music acts as a reminder that occasionally the most profound journeys are the silent ones and that in a world full of chaos, beauty still lingers in the hush.
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