Reworks, by James Heather

Reworks

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1.	Ruqia (Echo Collective Rework) 03:42	buy track
2.	MHope (DJ Seinfeld Yada Yada Remix) 05:40	buy track
3.	Biomes (Aparde Remix) 04:06	buy track
4.	Empire Sounds (String Quartet Version) 05:13	buy track
5.	Last Minute Change Of Heart (String Quartet Version) 04:02	buy track
6.	And She Came Home (Mary Lattimore Rework) 03:34	buy track
7.	Bad Role Model (Sarah Davachi Rework) 03:38	buy track
8.	Blueprint (Chihei Hatakeyama Remix) 05:59	buy track
9.	Ruqia 01:14	buy track
10.	MHope 04:57	buy track
11.	Biomes 02:42	buy track
12.	Empire Sounds 03:41	buy track
13.	Last Minute Change Of Heart 04:02	buy track
14.	And She Came Home 03:01	buy track
15.	Bad Role Model 03:40	buy track
16.	Blueprint 04:32	buy track

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Following on from his well-received debut album ‘Stories From Far Away on Piano’, contemporary pianist James Heather presents an impeccable follow up of high-calibre remixes and alternate versions titled ‘Reworks’. The new album contains a selection of tracks from ‘Modulations: EP 1’ and ‘Stories From Far Away On Piano’ including reworks by DJ Seinfeld, Mary Lattimore and Sarah Davachi and brand new additional string quartet versions by James Heather himself. The album is set for release on Ninja Tune founders Coldcut’s original label, Ahead Of Our Time.

On ‘Reworks’ we see Heather’s sense of profound beauty, up till now rooted within a classical and jazz framework move towards his love of electronic, orchestral and experimental structures. DJ Seinfeld ditches the granular production and ’lo-fi house’ stylings to proffer a particularly uncharacteristic, twinkling ambient redesign of ‘MHope’. Mary Lattimore’s harp mastery takes centre stage on ‘And She Came Home’ taken from 2017’s ‘Modulations: EP1’, an expansive and melancholic modification, adding to the eidetic drama of the original. Heather’s new string quartet interpretations of two album tracks take inspiration from live improvisations. Continuing her 2018 hot-streak, Sarah Davachi provides a lavish, sombre and canonical synthesizer rework of EP track ‘Bad Role Model’. Japanese ambient icon Chihei Hatakeyama’s reworking of ‘Blueprint’ follows on from the critical acclaim of his 2017 ‘Mirage’ release and more recent inclusion in Ryuichi Sakamoto’s much lauded ‘Kaijitsu’ playlist of music for restaurants. !K7’s Aparde injects a lighter touch of his signature emotive minimal techno on the ‘Biomes’ remix and Nils Frahm and Jóhann Jóhannsson collaborators, Echo Collective, follow on from the high praise of their ‘Play Amnesiac’ release earlier this year to open up ‘Reworks’ with a stunning yet subtly ominous version of the opening track from ‘Stories From Far Away On Piano,’ ‘Ruqia’.

'Stories From Far Away On Piano' reached No.2 in the classical charts on iTunes, charted in Billboard’s top 20 Classical Crossover releases and together Heather’s releases have amassed over 43 million streams on Spotify. James Heather has been playing live shows ranging from the Greenpeace stage at Glastonbury to the National Concert Hall in Dublin. He was also handpicked by Laura Marling to support at her Brit Awards/War Child gig, and he has shared line-ups with the likes of Jóhann Jóhannsson and Lubomyr Melnyk (Erased Tapes). Heather continues to carve a musical path that absorbs the full spectrum of his influences into one unique blend, in the past year alone adding collaborations with Mumdance, Dawn Richard and King Midas Sound’s Roger Robinson to his ever-expanding resume.

The ‘Reworks’ album art is the third element from the ‘Stories From Far Away On Piano’ series created once again by Antipattern. With principles of monochrome and layering, the composition introduces intricate graphics to form a technical aesthetic that extends beyond the original concept.

A large inspiration for Heather’s musical output is his own perspective, something Heather has in abundance; he nearly died in a traumatic road traffic accident in 2008, leaving him in a coma in intensive care and then off work for an extended time. One permanent injury was his finger, which became skewed in the crash. He was unsure if he’d ever be able to play to the same standard again. “When I eventually started to recover I began taking my musical sketches more seriously. I found solitude channelling my feelings into compositions.”

James Heather is one of the new school set of ‘post classical’ artists flourishing in the wake of the long, steady but recently accelerated success of figureheads like Max Richter and Nils Frahm, and the wider public’s overdue but now burgeoning relationship with this varied genre.

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“Superb instrumental music.” CRACK (8 Stand Out Moments from Green Man Festival)

“One of the most exciting pianists to emerge in recent years.” Mahogany Sessions

“A special voice…” Headphone Commute

"A masterful set of contemporary piano pieces. The sound Heather makes is captivating." Electronic Sound ... more

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