The Power of the Keyboard (180g 45rpm LP) Nathan Ben-Yehuda & Astral Mixtape SKU: YARLP84183-45 Barcode: 198002841834 45.00 £45.00 Genre: Classical Label: Yarlung Records Released Date: 26th April 2024 Buying Format: 180g 1LP 45rpm Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info 180g Vinyl 45rpm Recorded August 2-5, 2022 in Samueli Theater at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California Recording Engineers: Bob Attiyeh & Arian Jansen Mastering Engineers: Steve Hoffman, Arian Jansen, Bob Attiyeh Vinyl Mastering: Bernie Grundman Made in Germany Nathan Ben-Yehuda pursues a fulltime solo concert career as a classical pianist but also plays with Astral Mixtape, an innovative crossover quartet writing new works and reimagining classics from Monteverdi to Rimsky-Korsakov, and playing with ideas and thematic material from Sigur Ros to Radiohead and Four Tet. We end this album with two tracks by Astral Mixtape. The second side offers Goddess Gardens, including intoxicating “mixtape” snippets from Scheherazade and Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending, as well as more recent fare. Seven Hellos closes the album on side two, an original composition by the four members of the quartet. Astral Mixtape is clearly close to Nathan’s heart: “I am part of this wonderful band of fellow classical musicians who are seeking to reimagine the conventional roles of our instruments, and applying non-classical approaches to arrangement and composition in our works. Astral Mixtape is the collaborative project most personal to me.” Before we get to Astral Mixtape, however, Nathan’s solo piano repertoire makes a powerful statement. Not only can Nathan handle the delicate Haydn beautifully, but also kindly agreed to play Peter Sculthorpe’s Nocturnal for us. —Bob Attiyeh, producer The sonics in the recordings of solo piano pieces are outstanding. Nathan Ben-Yehuda is a compelling young pianist. The recording quality is also top-drawer, just as I’ve come to expect from Bob Attiyeh’s recordings. -Rushton Paul, Positive Feedback review of the Pure DSD256 release Nathan Ben-Yehuda is a young Juilliard trained pianist with an elegant and introspective manner that is immediately apparent in the opening music on this record, Haydn’s Piano Sonata in G. The two-movement work contrasts a dreamy, if somewhat quirky Allegretto with an ingenious madcap Presto, and Ben-Yehuda deftly underlines the dramatic shift. This 18th-century music segues neatly into a Nocturnal by contemporary Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe, which gently plumbs the lower half of the keyboard, evoking the dark nights of the outback. Side two of this meticulously produced LP is a sampling of Ben-Yehuda’s quartet Astral Mixtape, which also includes a pair of violinists and a cellist, as well as copious computer effects. Ben-Yehuda plays both piano and synthesizer. Like many classical musicians of their generation, this foursome grew up surrounded by popular music influences, and their work is meant to find a synthesis of that cultural diversity. Thus, strains of Rimsky-Korsakov and Vaughan WIlliams bleed into jazz and prog-rock sounds. It works surprisingly well, thanks in no small way to the technical skills of the musicians, but mainly for the taut construction and unpretentious melodic content of the music itself. -Peter Burwasser, The Absolute Sound, April 2024, Music 4.5/5, Sonics 5/5 Musicians: Nathan Ben-Yehuda – piano Artist Nathan Ben-Yehuda & Astral Mixtape Genre Classical Label Yarlung Records Buying Options 180g 1LP 45rpm Format 180g , 1LP , 45rpm Condition New Country USA Track Listings Side 1: Sonata in G Major, Hob. 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