{"id":14402,"date":"2020-12-12T22:04:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T22:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=14402"},"modified":"2020-12-12T22:04:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T22:04:43","slug":"keyboardist-and-brian-eno-collaborator-peter-chilvers-and-guitarist-jon-durant-create-a-series-of-stunningly-beautiful-aural-vistas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2020\/12\/12\/keyboardist-and-brian-eno-collaborator-peter-chilvers-and-guitarist-jon-durant-create-a-series-of-stunningly-beautiful-aural-vistas\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyboardist and Brian Eno Collaborator Peter Chilvers and Guitarist Jon Durant Create a Series of Stunningly Beautiful Aural Vistas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">English keyboardist and Brian Eno collaborator Peter Chilvers teamed up with American guitarist Jon Durant to create a series of stunningly beautiful aural vistas, which blend ECM inspired chamber jazz improvisation with ambient music. For both artists, this recording was an opportunity to explore their introspective sides as well as their textural tendencies. Gentle melodies weave their way through atmospheric clouds, at times reminiscent of Budd and Eno, but with a sense of interplay between the guitar and keys those ambient pioneers left out.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The duo settled into a rhythm of working across distant time zones during the pandemic. Tracks often began with a morning keyboard improvisation from Chilvers, which would be embellished and transformed by Durant as daylight hit his side of the Atlantic. Having completed Vista, the momentum built up, and three further tracks emerged. These stood well on their own and will be released first as \u201cAlways Golden Sand\u201d &#8211; a starter to Vista\u2019s main course.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The EP features the exquisitely melancholic \u201cAlways Autumn\u201d, the playful dialog of guitar and percolating synths on \u201cShifting Sands\u201d, and the pensive \u201cGolden\u201d, a reworking of the more rhythmic \u201cAge of Steam\u201d from Vista. The album also includes the darker shades of \u201cEmbers\u201d and the expansive \u201cSunset\u201d &#8211; multiple piano loops slowly build around each other, augmented by Durant\u2019s signature cloud guitars before giving way to a deep dusky atmosphere to close the album. Best enjoyed with a glass of whisky.\u00a0<br>Chilvers commented, \u201cAs a teenager, I fell in love with the great ECM recordings of the 70s and 80s. Working with Jon has felt like travelling back to that period and finding an undiscovered star. It\u2019s been a joyful and effortless recording, a live album somehow recorded despite lockdowns on opposite sides of the Atlantic. I wish I could beam it back to my teenage self.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Durant noted, \u201cMy favorite aspect of this record is the level of interplay we managed to achieve, especially given the difficult circumstances in which we made this record. Peter\u2019s lovely piano melodies were an inspiration for me to add not just beautiful textures but also play melodically with and around his piano and synths.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>Peter Chilvers:<\/strong>\u00a0Remodelled Pianos, Synths, Generative processes, Fretless bass<strong>Jon Durant:<\/strong>\u00a0Cloud Guitar, Fretless Guitar, Mixing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Release dates:<br>December 11. 2020<\/strong>The three song EP \u201cAlways Golden Sands\u201d will be released digitally on Bandcamp and all streaming services.\u00a0<br><strong>January 15, 2021<\/strong>The full length \u201cVista\u201d will be released digitally on Bandcamp and all streaming services.<br><strong>For more information:<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jondurant.rocks\/\">https:\/\/www.jondurant.rocks<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com\/\">http:\/\/www.peterchilvers.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To Purchase:<\/strong><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jondurant.bandcamp.com\/\">https:\/\/jondurant.bandcamp.com<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/peterchilvers.bandcamp.com\/\">https:\/\/peterchilvers.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the artists:<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apis.mail.yahoo.com\/ws\/v3\/mailboxes\/@.id==VjN-e0jYFgMVmVPCAgsJlwrVUeo6RGB1csbiSQdA1dIrs0T1T_j7FvcoXN8pujYGe1NeBmBxuc2UTjmHlmQVvjcwMQ\/messages\/@.id==ACVhf4Z7osYPX86SmAQHQBWXFj8\/content\/parts\/@.id==3\/thumbnail?appid=YMailNorrin&amp;downloadWhenThumbnailFails=true&amp;pid=3\" alt=\"Peter Chilvers.JPG\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Peter Chilvers<\/strong>&nbsp;is a musician and software designer. Best known for creating the iOs applications Bloom, Trope, Scape and Reflection with Brian Eno, he has also toured with Karl Hyde (Underworld) and recorded numerous albums with vocalists Tim Bowness and Sandra O\u2019Neill, as well as several solo instrumental albums. Many of these were released through Burning Shed, the online label he co-founded in 2001 with Tim Bowness and Pete Morgan.<br>Since 2006 he has worked as a musical and technical assistant to Brian Eno on projects including the soundtracks to \u201cThe Lovely Bones\u201d and \u201cSpore\u201d, album collaborations with David Byrne and the Warp releases \u201cSmall Craft on a Milk Sea\u201d, \u201cDrums Between the Bells\u201d and \u201cLux\u201d. He worked as Assistant Producer on Eno\u2019s 2016 release \u201cThe Ship\u201d, for which he also helped develop a multi-speaker installation which has been shown in many countries.<br>As one of the earliest successes when Apple\u2019s App Store\u2019s debuted in 2008, Bloom continues to be fondly remembered. This led in 2018 to a collaboration with Microsoft to produce Bloom: Open World, an augmented reality installation shown in Denmark, and Bloom: 10 Worlds, a complete reimagining of the app for modern phones and tablets. Eno and Chilvers were also commissioned to create Hypnotised, a customized version of Bloom for use in Coldplay\u2019s live stadium shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apis.mail.yahoo.com\/ws\/v3\/mailboxes\/@.id==VjN-e0jYFgMVmVPCAgsJlwrVUeo6RGB1csbiSQdA1dIrs0T1T_j7FvcoXN8pujYGe1NeBmBxuc2UTjmHlmQVvjcwMQ\/messages\/@.id==ACVhf4Z7osYPX86SmAQHQBWXFj8\/content\/parts\/@.id==4\/thumbnail?appid=YMailNorrin&amp;downloadWhenThumbnailFails=true&amp;pid=4\" alt=\"Jon Durant med res.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Innovative guitarist&nbsp;<strong>Jon Durant<\/strong>&nbsp;brings a unique sense of texture and melody to his instrument. His distinctive \u201ccloud guitar\u201d soundscapes and engaging lead work have graced numerous CD recordings and film soundtracks and his very distinctive use of fretless guitar has been widely admired.&nbsp;<br>Durant has previously released 10 solo albums and three Burnt Belief records (with Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree). Durant has also been featured on the Astarta \/ Edwin album which was released in 2016. Durant, Colin Edwin and Ukranian singer Inna Kovtun released a CD in 2019 which featured a completely unique and modern take on traditional Ukranian folk music, with a blend of progressive rock, ambient, and pop elements. Durant\u2019s acclaimed 2018 solo release \u201cParting Is\u201d was his first \u201csolo guitar\u2019 recording and the follow up solo guitar album \u201cAlternate Landscapes\u201d continues to stretch the boundaries of what a guitar record can sound like. Both solo CDs have been nominated for \u201cBest Ambient Album\u201d in US new age radio publications, while \u201cAlternate Landscapes\u201d also spent multiple weeks at the top of the NACC Chill Charts. In 2020, Durant released the well-received duo album Across the Evening with Estonian guitarist Robert J\u00fcrjendal as well as his most recent solo album, Soul of a River which featured Jon playing guitars and piano.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English keyboardist and Brian Eno collaborator Peter Chilvers teamed up with American guitarist Jon Durant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[427,1400],"class_list":["post-14402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-jon-durant","tag-peter-chilvers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14404,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14402\/revisions\/14404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}