Hiroco.M - Still (2021)

Hiroko Murakami creates her music as Hirocco.M and has been releasing singles all over the last year. There's still no longer album but this year's super short EP called Still gives us the taste of what it will be sometime in the future.

Released by Moderna Records, the EP is filled with the most impressive piano-based beauty. The short compositions are like tiny pictures with their own structures and thoughts but short and illusive. This may be the strength of the release: the short tracks make you want to focus more and appreciate them while they last. And it's absolutely worth doing so, not only for the piano music fans. Still the track, but perhaps the whole album as well, was meant to catch the feeling of 2020's stagnation, as the artist states: "yet calm and somehow uneventful, the lack of change created a yearning for excitement, for meeting loved ones and friends I could not. Still, stalled, stuck". If this is a result of this year, perhaps it had its brighter sides.

Still costs 5 CAD.

Check: Still 

Country: Japan

Genre: piano-based neoclassicism

Label: Moderna Records

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