Chris Conway - Piano Natural (2012)

This album is something of a promise to myself finally kept. When I first became interested in piano music as a boy I was greatly influenced by the classic ECM piano album by ECM artists like Steve Kuhn & Richard Beirach, and to a lesser extent Chick Corea and Kieth Jarrett. As a result I wrote a great deal of small evocative piano pieces. I always wanted to record some of them.

20 years went by. I got busy in other areas of music. Picked up many more influences, the minimal music of Terry Riley, Indian, Balkan, Celtic musics. Then I was asked to make just such an album of piano music.

It was quite an emotional process recording these pieces, choosing them, arranging them, putting them together so they flow. Hearing the old influences and the newer.I'm very happy with the result. Like coming full circle. ~ Chris Conway.