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Sophie Hutchings Become the Sky 2025  24-96

Australian pianist/composer Sophie Hutchings performs elegant post-classical music which flits from soothing, idyllic, and melancholy to urgent and tempestuous. Likened to artists such as Nils Frahm, Max Richter, and Dustin O'Halloran, her music focuses on delicate piano melodies, sometimes incorporating strings, woodwind, percussion, and ethereal vocals. Her recordings range from more fully arranged albums like 2012's Night Sky to sparse, dreamy efforts such as 2017's Byways.

With a gregarious, outgoing personality belied by her music's wistful introspection, Hutchings was born into a musical family. Her father was a jazz musician who had toured the U.S. and played with Frank Sinatra, and her brother Jamie fronted the alternative rock band Bluebottle Kiss. She began making music as a child on the family piano. In later years she was influenced by shoegaze and ambient, and by post-classical pioneer Jóhann Jóhannsson, whom she once named her favorite composer. Initially extremely shy about performing, she contributed to some of her brother's band's recordings, but did not make her solo debut until age 32, when, in 2010, Sydney experimental label Preservation released her first album, Becalmed. Recorded by Tim Whitten, long-term engineer for avant-garde trio the Necks, the album was largely solo piano, with the occasional interjection of pedal steel, strings, and drum kit. The influences of ambient, jazz, and indie rock were noticeable, but more subliminal than overt, transmuted in a kind of musical alchemy. Perhaps the most obvious influences on the album were seminal post-classical group Rachel's and Michael Nyman's classic score for The Piano. 


101 Lull.flac
102 Fragments Of Light.flac
103 The Gathering Dusk.flac
104 A Sense Of Place.flac
105 Secrets To The Sea.flac
106 Drift Through The Hours.flac
107 Holding Moments.flac
108 In A While.flac
109 Landing.flac
110 Sleeping Giant.flac
111 Eyes On The Sun (Acoustic Version).flac
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