The sounds of the street bled through those brick walls.Ĭook describes the resulting songs as “hymn-provisations,” telling the INDY Week ’s Dan Ruccia that making the album was “an act of me getting out of my own way and having it not be about anything other than what needed to come through in a moment. Previous work on justice in education and schooling was supported by an ESRC Small Grant Schools, Children, and Social Justice. These ten pieces came to life on a long-cared-for and much-loved 100 year-old Steinway over three days at the church. Yet it was during hour-long stretches of improvisation in NorthStar Church of the Arts in Durham where the music could open up to the presence of divine intoxication. Phil experimented with sanctuary in order to honor the ritual: he retreated alone to the mountains in North Carolina to write, sojourned to family abodes in Wisconsin to nurture. Cook and his brother Brad formed Megafaun.
Learning more about his music, I found out he was friends with fellow Durham, North Carolina inhabitant Phil Cook. Hiss Golden Messenger, because I had become addicted to his records. In a note accompanying the recording, Trevor Hagen describe the process: Early in 2014 I filmed a session with Michael Taylor a.k.a. Recorded on a 1923 Steinway in Durham’s NorthStar Church of the Arts, All These Years is “a turn toward the minimal, the meditative, the powerful” ( Volume One magazine ) that finds Cook exploring his relationship to the piano, his primary instrument. Phil Cook returns to Duke Performances for an intimate performance of the entirety of his new solo piano album All These Years.
Phil Cook Tuesday, Ma| 8:00 pm Nelson Music Room
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