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Etudes For Piano

by Alex Koo

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Coconuts 02:53
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Luna Umi 06:52
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Sonar 07:44
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Five In Fis 02:06
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Satiesfied 03:23
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DbREAM 06:26

about

Belgian-Japanese piano wizard Alex Koo seemed destined for a career as a classical concert pianist, but in his teens he became completely enamored with jazz. Driven by his passion, he moved to New York, where he studied and taught at the renowned NYU Steinhardt. There he came into contact with jazz greats Mark Turner and Ralph Alessi, with whom he released the album "Applebueseagreen" in 2019, which was promptly included in the prestigious list of "Best Albums of 2019" by the legendary Downbeat Jazz Magazine with the words "Stunningly original”. Domestically, too, one blazing review upon another: "Belgium is too small for pianist Alex Koo" or "We are stunned ", we read in national newspapers De Tijd and Le Soir.
With his brand new Etudes for Piano, composed for and commissioned by BoZar Brussels, he shows how his passion for both worlds - jazz and classical – merge perfectly. Adventurism and virtuosity go hand in hand with melancholy and elbow work (literally, for those who really know Koo knows). His music sounds like a marriage between Debussy, Chopin, Reich, Rachmaninov on the one hand and Keith Jarrett, Craig Taborn, Brian Eno and Philip Glass on the other. Alex Koo is a conjuring natural born storyteller on piano.

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released March 3, 2023

Piano & compositions by Alex Koo
Recorded by Dieter Claeys at Blue Keys Studio, Aalter.
Mixed by Marton Fenyvesi (Sinistra Mastering)
Mastered by Frederik Dejongh (Jerboa Mastering)
Produced by Alex Koo / Benny Claeysier
Executive production: Benny Claeysier for W.E.R.F. records / KAAP
Artwork: Max Philippi

(c) Alex Koo (p) W.E.R.F.records 2023

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Alex Koo Brussels, Belgium

“Stunningly original” – Downbeat Jazz Magazine |
Belgian-Japanese pianist & composer Alex Koo has been hailed as a daring innovator and a rising star talent. Effortlessly, he mixes jazz, minimalism, film music, ambient and neoclassical into a unique emulsion. A mesmerizing storyteller on the piano. |
“Belgium is too small for pianist Alex Koo” – De Tijd
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