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Oct 15, 2013 · Arborescence. by Aaron Parks. Released Oct 15, 2013 on ECM Records. Aaron Parks, piano. Get it on iTunes. Get it on Amazon. Here's a review and an interview.
Prize-winning young American pianist Aaron Parks titled his ECM debut “Arborescence” because the album’s music is the fruit of a session of solo studio improvisation in which little was predetermined; the pieces developed in the moment like “living things,” in the artist’s words.
Pianist Aaron Parks made his ECM debut with the 2013 solo recording Arborescence. The word “aborescence” refers to the way something grows, seeking and adaptive, like a tree.
Oct 4, 2013 · View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2013 CD release of "Arborescence" on Discogs.
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Oct 13, 2013 · With Parks turning 30 a week prior to Arborescence 's October 15 release, the pianist's milestones continue to accelerate. His past work may have been consistently impressive, but Arborescence represents the true watershed of Parks' arrival as an artist whose future shines brighter with every passing year.
- John Kelman
Apr 25, 2015 · Aaron Parks’s solo ECM debut might just as well be called “Arbor Essence.” Not only because each of its 11 improvised tracks grows however it wants to, but also because as a forest they provide shelter from rain and screen against the sun’s blinding rays.
On his 2013 ECM debut, Arborescence, Parks goes it alone. The album captures solo piano improvisations where little has been worked out in advance. Parks has spoken of the influence of Keith Jarrett and Paul Bley, and you can hear that in his playing.
