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Synapses

by Ramin Amir Arjomand

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Awakening 09:15
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Le Collier 06:33
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Dream 09:23
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Synapses 07:54

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Recorded June 30-July 8, 2020, Brooklyn
Ramin Amir Arjomand, piano

These pieces have several qualities that are personal musical achievements for me: the sparseness of sounds, which never lose musical tension—“Synapses” being the most distinct example, then “Le Collier”; the fluent feeling of tenderness, expressed within an overall atonal language—“Awakening” and “The Golden Hour” being notable examples; emerging from this atonality, the use of diatonicism: all of the pieces end by distilling into a diatonic set, which has nothing to do with tonality taking over—rather it is a kind of filtering process whereby the twelve notes in circulation reduce to seven, each time producing a unique effect. (The pieces end with diatonic sets based on F, Eb, Db, B, A, and G, though not in that order—a whole-tone governance!) The entire album is a rich, expressive, inward experience that I feel will be rewarding for anyone who is interested in contemplative listening.

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released July 24, 2020

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Ramin Amir Arjomand Brooklyn, New York

Ramin Amir Arjomand is a pianist, improvisor, composer, and teacher based in Brooklyn, New York.

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