LukeParkinpr's Channel

2 subscribers

1,243 video views

Play All

Uploaded videos

1-10 of 10

About JUMPTIME EVOLUTION

Neo Classical, Electronica, Dance and Downbeat, combine to form Luke Parkin's Evolutionary Jumptime Collection.

lukeparkin.com

Created by

LukeParkinpr

Latest Activity

Dec 14, 2009

Date Joined

Sep 29, 2009

About this user

Luke Parkin is one of the most accomplished, conversant, and captivating assets, of the younger generations artists emerging to prominence. At age thirty, he has amassed upwards of 70 Albums, which amounts to over forty five hours of music with a breathtaking oeuvre that spans many genres.

EST. MMIX. (Established 2009) is Luke Parkins 70th album. Despite some exotic sounds, few audiences will find themselves excluded. However, like those preceding it, EST. MXXIX is an album that eludes the easy sorts of labels that the recording industry uses its as eclectic as its composer.

While Parkins music can take the shape of almost any container, it inevitably overflows any limit. Though he insists he is not afraid of repeating himself, the protean variety of his recordings suggest an artist on a quest investigating new and old musical territory with an explorers keen senses.

Im trying to play a lot of musical characters, he acknowledges, and I want to exploit the more eccentric part of my personality in my compositions. Every album is an extension of who I am naturally.

Winter Journal(2006) which he describes as classically informed New Age cleaves to the melodic mainstream. Engine Album (05) and The Black on Black Symphony, whirl farther into the periphery, marking out acoustic landscapes that touch down like distant planetary dust storms.

Between examples of Parkins work lies a spectrum that spans commercial music, electronic dance, modern organ music, and exquisite piano homages to Debussy and Satie. Nor is the diversity of his inspiration limited to musical forms.

Growing up in Amesbury, Massachusetts, a former mill town that saw its brightest days decades ago, Parkin often felt like the consummate outsider. His formative training, however, was conventional even conservative. He began piano at the age of six with Bach and worked through Beethoven and the Classical repertoire with an uncompromising teacher he describes as old-school Russian; one dedicated to building technique from the ground up. At university he would study with esteemed Argentine pianist Estela Olevsky who emphasized a far more relaxed approach.

On live performance: A performer, he insists, should try to completely surprise and thrill an audience with something they dont expect, try to give an audience something fresh. Parkins knowledge of classical and modern musics allows him a diverse toolbox.

Someone once said that I had a schizophrenic approach to composition I thought you wrote piano music or I thought you wrote electronic music.

This is personal to me I like to call it classitronic. Ive received a lot of attention on the coinage, but Im more interested in marking out the cutting edge rooted in the beauty of the fusion. He also admits it sounds a little too much like music people smoke weed to or have sex by.

One fan of Parkins creative genius commented, Keep an eye on Luke hell both mark out the horizon in cutting edge music and keep it connected to the classics. If you want to be ahead of the curve, listen to Luke Parkin.

Country

United States

Occupation

Recording Artist & Composer

less

Featured Playlists

10 videos Play all(10) Uploaded videos by JUMPTIME EVOLUTION

view all