Multi-instrumentalist and singer Scott Gagner kept mum on his new album Underwater Waltz, a collection of tender instrumentals. Inspired by a family's wish to watch the solar eclipse he did some serious thinking about capturing the event with music, with his 1930’s Lester upright piano as the focal point of the compositions. A string quartet was added, plus Zach Reeves riding shotgun on various keyboards.
Gagner found that was he lost for words to capture the beauty of nature and opted for an ambient approach instead, making Underwater Waltz an outlier in his discography - albeit that his ability to spin luscious melodies could not be contained. Three covers made the album, with the reinvention of the Rick James smash Super Freak as the biggest surprise.
Scott Gagner: piano, Wurlitzer, mellotron, moog grandmother, Roland JU-06a, wine glasses, treatments, string arrangements
Geoffrey Robeson: violin
Katherine Williamson: viola
David Gerstein: cello
Karen Kozak: violin, viola
Zach Reeves: Wurlitzer, Mellotron, Roland JU-06A, wine glasses
Underwater Waltz is a self-released album. Buy it (CD, digital) from his website.
Tracks:- Elephant
- Underwater Waltz
- The Ghost in You
- Wintergreen
- Northview
- Solar Eclipse
- Super Freak
- Midnight Swim
- Tuxedo Cat
- Bookends Theme
- The Parlor
- White Ash
- 01/24 Excelsior, MN @ 318 Cafe (album release show)
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