Name: Black Sarabande
Brand: Robert Haigh

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UW029cd

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Limited edition

Release date

2020-01-24

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Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

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744790142648

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Robert Haigh

Genre US

Modern Composition

Label US

Unseen Worlds

Robert Haigh is a British electronic, ambient and experimental musician. With a career spanning several decades, Haigh has established himself as a pioneer in the genre. His unique sound combines elements of classical music with electronic beats, creating captivating and atmospheric compositions.

Influenced by artists such as Tobias Wilden, Josiah Steinbrick, and Pan-American, Haigh's music takes listeners on a journey through intricate melodies and mesmerizing soundscapes. His ability to blend different genres seamlessly sets him apart from other musicians in the industry.

Haigh's discography includes numerous albums that have received critical acclaim from both fans and critics alike. From his early works like "Omni Trio" to more recent releases such as "Romance," each album showcases his artistic evolution and growth.

Black Sarabande expands upon pianist-composer Robert Haigh's beguiling debut for Unseen Worlds with a collection of intimate and evocative piano-led compositions. Haigh was born and raised in the 'pit village' of Worsbrough in South Yorkshire, England. His father, as most of his friends' fathers, was a miner, who worked at the local colliery. Etched into Haigh's work are formative memories of the early morning sounds of coal wagons being shunted on the tracks, distant trains passing, and walking rural paths skirting the barren industrial landscape. The album opens with the title track — a spacious, plaintive piano motif develops through a series of discordant variations before resolving. On Stranger On The Lake, sweeping textures and found sounds lay the foundation for a two chord piano phrase evoking a sense of elegy. Wire Horses is an atmospheric audio painting of open spaces and distant lights. Air Madeleine uses variations in tempo and dynamics to craft the most seductively melodic track on the album. Arc Of Crows improvises on a single major seventh chord, splintering droplets of notes as ghostly wisps of melodic sound slowly glide into view. Ghosts Of Blacker Dyke is a melancholic evocation of Haigh's roots in England's industrial north — intermingling dissonant sounds of industry within a set of languid piano variations. Progressive Music is constructed around a series of lightly dissonant arpeggiated piano chords which modulate through major and minor key changes before resolving at a wistful and enigmatic refrain.

In The Secret Life of Air, a nocturnal, low piano line slowly weaves its way through the close-miked ambience of the room, nearly halting as each note is allowed to form and reverberate into a blur with the next. The ambitious Painted Serpent calmly begins with drone-like pads and builds with the introduction of counterpoint piano lines and an orchestral collage of sound underpinned by a deliberate bass motif. Broken Symmetry and Lady Lazarus highlight Haigh's gift for blurring the line between dissonance and harmony - opaque piano portraits of moonlight and shadows glancingly evoke the impressionistic palettes of Harold Budd, Debussy and Satie.

Black Sarabande

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