Small Fires, by Needleleaf

Small Fires

by Needleleaf

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3.	Shingles 05:38	buy track
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7.	High Windows (After Larkin) 02:53	buy track

about

‘Small Fires’ is the first album of piano miniatures by Needleleaf (aka Thom Carter). The bandname is taken from a type of forest.

Influenced by the compositions of early 20th century masters such as Erik Satie and Debussy, as well as John Cage, Howard Skempton and Keith Kennif, the pieces were composed and recorded in the Autumn of 2010.

The brittle, intimate, close-mic'ed sound that dominates the recording, rarely lifting above pianissimo, captures every detail of the piano-playing and the use of the inner-harmonics of the instrument as unplayed strings in the upper registers which ring open in sympathetic vibration to the struck notes.

Ghostly, intimate, and melancholic, this is music full of strangeness, reflection and subtlety.

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released September 10, 2010

Written and Recorded by Thom Carter. Copyright Verlaine Records 2010. All Rights Reserved. [VR_012]

Needleleaf on Myspace: www.myspace.com/needleleaf
Thom Carter: www.thomcarter.co.uk
Verlaine Records: verlainerecords.co.uk

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Strange and sensual piano music for the soul.

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Seven Suns

Apr 2014
Lifespan

Jun 2013
Soul

Jan 2012
Open Window

Mar 2011
Life in Miniature

Nov 2010
Small Fires

Sep 2010

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