Description
Label Review.
2017 album.
Our Overview.
From its conception as a bedroom-studio hobby in Summer 1996, Piano Magic’s trajectory has never been textbook – random at best. Originally, a self-confessed revolving door operation – musicians arriving, contributing and leaving as they pleased. Often described as darkwave or coldwave, Piano Magic prefer the label, “ghost rock,” an emotive combination of post-rock and haunting ethereal electronics.
The aptly-named, ‘Closure,’ is the 12th and final official album by cult London-based Anglo-French group, marking their 20th year of existence.
Piano Magics’ official website announce:
After twenty years, Piano Magic announce their final album, ‘Closure,’ will be formally released by Second Language Music on January 20th 2017 worldwide on CD, 180gm vinyl and digital download formats.
Recorded in London between April and August of this year, ‘Closure,’ features guest appearances from Peter Milton Walsh of The Apartments, Audrey Riley (go-to cellist for The Go-Betweens, Nick Cave, Virginia Astley and many more), Josh Hight (Irons) and Oliver Cherer (Dollboy). For this final album, the nucleus of Piano Magic was Glen Johnson, Jerome Tcherneyan, Franck Alba, Alasdair Steer and Paul Tornbohm.
"What I’ve always tried to do with Piano Magic is to hit people in the heart; not really in the feet, or in the head necessarily, but in the heart." Glen Johnson, leader of the Anglo-French ghost rock group Piano Magic.