Award-winning composer and pianist Hanan Townshend begins a new, deeply reflective chapter with his latest single, “What We Lost II,” the first release from his forthcoming piano-driven album, "What We Lost." Involved with music that balances intimacy and movie-like scale, Townshend once more demonstrates his ability to transform feelings into sounds in the most vivid yet frugal terms.
The work arises from a deep creative inquiry: if music had existed when loss first entered the world, what would it have sounded like? Structured around felt piano and softly rolling strings, “What We Lost II” is the kind of slow-burning emotional depth that invites listeners to sit inside a moment rather than hurry through it.
Townshend’s film-composer background is palpable here. “What We Lost II” is cinematic not through size or drama but because it uses sound to create imagery. The music transports the listener through a hushed terrain of contemplation, in which every pause and forward motion feels deliberate and profoundly human. Townshend continues to hone a voice that is both subtly guidelike and emotionally on-point. With “What We Lost II,” he gives us a space, one where memory and absence and beauty coexist in genteel equilibrium.
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