Dark Sparkles (2011), by Tim Fatchen

Dark Sparkles (2011)

by Tim Fatchen

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janeellen Fatchen's compositions cover the emotional gamut from bittersweet memory to wistful longing, from obsessive angst to clarity of vision. Listen as the composer lays bare his emotional soul. Favorite track: Firelight Piano.

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1.	Lost Summers 03:38	info	buy track
2.	Dark Sparkles 01:41	info	buy track
3.	Romancing 03:43	info	buy track
4.	The Last Night (8PM) 02:10	info	buy track
5.	Snippet 02:22	info	buy track
6.	Retrospect 04:50	info	buy track
7.	Nightrunner 02:49	info	buy track
8.	Losing 02:40	info	buy track
9.	Panic Panic 01:41	info	buy track
10.	Firelight Piano 02:32	info	buy track
11.	Before the Front 01:27	info	buy track
12.	Embers 03:09	info	buy track
13.	July Rain 02:15	info	buy track
14.	Goodbye Song 02:42	info	buy track
15.	Ten Minutes 02:36	info	buy track
16.	The Secret Life of Snow 03:24	info	buy track
17.	Thank You and Goodnight 01:43	info	buy track

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Lyrical classical solo piano

Collected here are myriad gemstones for the heart and ear: the voice of Tim Fatchen's piano invites, cajoles, repents and glitters with wry humor and unabashed loveliness.

There are no soothing songs that slink into the background. Instead, we are carried forward and back through seasons of encroaching chill and rains that sigh down on parched hopes just often enough to renew faith that there will be, again, a Spring.

These are pieces that may lead down and through the emotional landscape of a moment, an hour or a decade, but always through. No shortcuts are taken, no bramble-laden paths turned aside from for safety's sake. No simple tinkling prettiness awaits.

From the gently rising regret of Last Night 8pm to the swift flowing obsession of Panic Panic, Fatchen is never reluctant to peer over the edge of lost beauty in order to gain insight, whether mournful or merry.

Here is music that exults in each honeycomb cell of a given experience; as much in the tender wounds of love as in its glories.

Music that is intelligent, cerebral even, but always approachable, unselfconsciously joyous or brushed with melancholy; darkly sparkling.

Enjoy it.

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released June 1, 2011

Music by, performed and Copyright © 2011 TJ Fatchen All Rights Reserved
Piano samples courtesy Garritan Personal Orchestra
Liner notes: Mari Kozlowski
Recorded at Flying Tadpole Productions, Dunn's Mill, mt Barker, South Australia

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Tim Fatchen Adelaide, Australia

Master pianist, songwriter, creator of music theater catastrophe curves. Australia. More? OK...Occasionally paid musician, long-term unpaid satirist, paid-up internet junkie. In polite company as Tim Fatchen (quiet, serious, good dinner guest); impolite company as Flying Tadpole (loud, rabid, good kennel cleaner...). ... more

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