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Fredenwalde - Teil I

Italian composer and pianist Federico Albanese's EP of solo piano works entitled ‘Fredenwalde – Teil I' is released via Mercury KX. The EP follows hot on the heels of his exquisite collaborative EP with Tara Nome Doyle ‘The Moments We Keep.' Federico explains the background. "The Landhaus Fredenwalde is a house, located north - east of Berlin, in the Uckermark region of Brandenburg. It is said that the house was originally planned as a train station on the Wilmersdorf - Gerswalde - Haßleben line, but this plan was never implemented. Culture and history make this place a unique universe where everything seems to have skipped the laws of time. In April 2021, I spent a short period over there with my family. I was blown away by the power that resonated through those brick walls and the landscape. Almost like touching what was left of a world that we strive to remember."

Federico Albanese:

The Moments We Keep w/Tara Nome Doyle

Mercury KX are excited to present ‘Too Lost To Be Found' the first track from a collaborative EP between Berlin based Irish/Norwegian singer-songwriter Tara Nome Doyle, and Italian composer and pianist Federico Albanese.  The forthcoming EP's title ‘The Moments We Keep', is a reference to Virginia Woolf's concept of time, and her interest in fleeting moments and the perception of them being relative.  Lyrically, the tracks all orbit around moments that might have seemed ordinary at the time, but which stick with us, reflecting upon the intangible qualities of time.  As Tara explains in relation to ‘Too Lost To Be Found', "(It) is a track about the strange sensation of being overwhelmed with a situation and realising that you've been at the exact same point before, experiencing the same problems and finding the same solutions.  We recognise that there is this mental amnesia that creeps in while we're not looking, luring us back into old patterns, because there is a peculiar comfort in going back to what we know, even when we know it hurts."