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deluxe double vinyl edition of The Seasons Are Not Four. Pressed on transparent vinyl [ with a blue yolk ] , with printed inner sleeves featuring illustrations by Luciana Salgado and all housed in a wraparound gatefold jacket featuring stunning original artwork by Rossie Edenbrow.

A collection of structured piano improvisations and their surrounding sonic environments, an album in four parts:

Songs From a Distant Summer | From November
For Snow | Together

Recorded between 2011-2013, the album was never intended to be a direct response to the seasons. The coincidence of the recordings having been made at points within the seasons was only pointed out at a later date by a friend.

Alongside wishing to avoid any parallels or associations being drawn with Vivaldi’s masterpiece, the title - “The Seasons Are Not Four” - a line from a poem by Syrian poet Adonis , appeared to fit perfectly - recognising our relationship to time but also alluding to the impossibility of truly categorising it.

Due to label arrangements and complications the majority of these recordings have remained unreleased for a decade. One notable exception being the piece “I Promise”, that went on to amass in excess of 24 million streams - an unfathomable prospect for a piano-less pianist recording a reunion between himself and a piano at a point of not having played one for several months.

The Seasons Are Not Four serves as a sonic record of real-time responses to the character of a piano, to transient states of being and to disparate, fleeting moments in time -

some will hear Summer in Winter,
others- Autumn in Spring;
distant conversation beyond the sounds of a hesitant human shuffling fingers against wooden keys,
the ticking of a grandfather clock or the song of birds outside masking passing traffic.


‘The Seasons Are Not Four, a week is not seven days, a year is more than it is, and less’
Adonis

In memory of Ingrid Beazley, on whose white upright Furstein many of these improvisations were recorded.