Tania Giannouli's forthcoming album SOLO
Tania Giannouli’s fifth album for Rattle is arguably her most important to date, a beautifully conceived set of piano improvisations ranging from the pastorale and lyrical to the most searching and desolate.
SOLO is an artistically concentrated album, fearless, personal, and profoundly musical, a work that highlights Tania’s exceptional talents as an accomplished, highly intuitive pianist.
A Greek pianist, composer, improviser and bandleader, Tania studied classical music (Piano Soloist and Composition diplomas) and Agriculture (MS on Food Technology, AUA). She explores jazz as the most creative music form and regularly employs improvisation in her practice. She makes jazz of the kind where improvisation is just the starting point and somewhere out there - or something deep inside - is the aim. Inspired by many different traditions and influences, her music and interdisciplinary projects span an impressive range of styles - a creative and borderless amalgamation of the global today’s reality.
Establishing her very own voice, embracing and transcending occidental and oriental spheres on her soulful path of creation and dedication to the essentials of moving sound. Her genre-defying "open sound language" is often described as lyrical, inspired, complex, eclectic, intoxicating and highly original. As the Korean magazine Jazzspace has written: “This music invites the listener to dream of eternity.”
SOLO is out June 8, 2023. Preorders available here.
Artist photo: Ziga Koritnik
