Kevin Figes - The Common and Other Short Stories (2023)

The six little piano pieces which open this album are my first foray into writing for solo instruments. They were inspired in part by film music, Bella Bartok and Jazz ballads. Each piece is preceded by some found sounds which I recorded surreptitiously on Horfield Common, Bristol, near where I live.
The two radio pieces reflect my childhood fascination with all the sounds in between the channels on transistor radios, together with a little processing.
'Feeling Rough' is pretty self-explanatory and continues my love of words/prose/lyrics.
'Blacksmith' comprises samples from a local blacksmith which have been organised and processed in Ableton software using chance principles derived from Stockhausen.