Kerri Chandler Six Pianos

Label:
Deeply Rooted House
Catalog#:
DRH005
Released:
Apr 2005



Kerri Chandler Talking about Six Pianos at the Red Bull Music Academy:

"This song has been in my head since I was about ten-years old. It's an old Steve Reich song and I found it just at random in my grandmothers stash. This record must be from the '60s or '70s, but this guy was a minimalist person and he literally took six pianos and he had a composition made up so they all fell on top of each other and they were all kind of looped after each other. And I thought that it was such an odd thing that it would stick to me that long and I thought, 'That's a hook and a half'. I don't know if you guys have heard of an earworm in this room. An earworm is one of those things that you can't get out of your head until you hear that song again. That song has been stuck in my head until I found that thing maybe early last year. And I said: "That's it. I have to do something with it 'cause it's such a weird song. It's just too bizarre." I thought it would make a really good house record.«

(music: Kerri Chandler - 6 Pianos])

»(comments over the music) And it's the same thing. I used six pianos and I just kept layering them on top of each other and it builds and it builds. The first piano was actually the piano in my living room and I actually just looped it around. The key to this one here is you have to use six different pianos, that was the catch. He actually used six different types of pianos and that's what I did. I used that piano, I used an upright piano that I haven't used in years, it's just collecting dust and sitting there. Then I used a couple of modules, same thing again and they just all fell into place.«

(music continues)

»And it's really, really slight and they just keep building on each other. The same thing here again with all of my life actually goes into it. Somewhere in the middle of the song someone said: "You need to put a childs voice into it." I said: "OK, fine." I went and got my daughter, she's actually singing in the breakdown this little thing, a really simple riff. Just to show you, if you have it in your head, you can use it.«

(music continues)

»It goes like that and near the end it's the same weird melody. And that's how I heard it in my head, same way my daughter is singing it and that's how I ended it.«

(music continues)

»So, the same way it began in my head is the same way I ended it.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Kerri Chandler
• Six Pianos
• Bar a Thyme
• Deeply Rooted House
• Dj Deep
• Laurent Garnier
• Derrick May
• Deep House
• Techno
• Tech House
• House

[TheLouiseok]

Kind of reminds me of strings of life.

[Factory051]

wow, this is really something else.

[trans1t]

i love that he gave a shout-out to steve reich in the liner notes... great tune

[muziklab]

yeah, this is the one



[falkerhard]

This is ear porn

[Vmusic4theSoul]

dooope

[TheSugar13]

Dirt.......