Arashk Azizi, a contemporary composer, navigates the profound depths of human emotion with his signature “Piano Poem” style. His latest release, “Elegy Sonata,” is a four-track EP.
“Elegy Sonata” grapples with death and grief, fear and mourning. Azizi’s piano becomes a vessel, pouring out despair and flashes of raw anger, reflecting upon loss—loss that, it appears, resonates deeply with his personal journey. You know, it is kinda like that feeling you get staring at the sheer, baffling complexity of, say, an Escher print. It’s ordered chaos. Or the tax code.
The blend of traditional forms like the Sonata and Nocturne with modern harmonies is no casual dalliance. Azizi crafts his unique “Piano Poem” form. It feels simultaneously meticulous and spontaneous. As though a highly trained ballet dancer was let loose on a rain slick street. Graceful? Absolutely, so graceful that it will break your soul in two. The Risk? Always.
It might evoke that quiet awe experienced before grand historical shifts – that unnerving tranquility right before…everything changes. But I was thinking about popcorn earlier. Specifically, about how each kernel pops at its own, unpredictable time.
“Elegy Sonata” offers moments of stark beauty that hit with the suddenness of an unexpected downpour. And it carries that feeling of solitude you might know well. Maybe. Other times, it resembles an internal storm, and chords rage in thunderous cascades. Azizi’s command over his instrument is not to showmanship, but an excavation of the soul.
There is a heavy, looming question within “Elegy Sonata”. This makes the collection less an epitaph. It will force you to seek an understanding, which makes this far more potent and less…definitive.
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