The Planets and Humanity: Piano Reflections

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What makes Ekanayaka’s offering unique is her expanded vision of the future. We still gaze at the heavens with wonder, meditate on infinite mysteries, and imagine a realm beyond space and time.... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2021 More…

Release Date: 14th May 2021
Catalogue No: GP879
Label: Grand Piano
Length: 57 minutes

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Ekanayaka: Neptune: Ashaninka Kindled

Work length16:46

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Tanya Ekanayaka (piano)

Ekanayaka: Mercury with Antarctica

Work length5:12

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Ekanayaka: Uranus: Numbulwar Sustaining

Work length5:52

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Ekanayaka: Venus: Sami Traced

Work length5:24

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Ekanayaka: Saturn: Gond Inspired

Work length10:15

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Ekanayaka: Earth - Life

Work length5:03

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Ekanayaka: Jupiter: Cree Cast

Work length5:28

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Ekanayaka: Mars: Hadzabe Touched

Work length3:56

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The eight works in this album explore reflections on the eight planets of the solar system and the earths seven continents. Most bear echoes of traditional melodies originating from indigenous peoples. Largely composed during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tanya Ekanayaka's passionate awareness of the connections and congruences between the past and present is reflected in her vision of harmonious co-existence. In this cycle she presents a tapestry of moods tenderness, fantasy and vivid trans-creations of ancient melodies. DR TANYA EKANAYAKA is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning Sri Lankan-British concert composer-pianist. Although trained as a pianist, her compositional skills are the result of a purely intuitive and natural development. Influenced by her multifaceted background, multilingualism, ambidexterity and partial colour synaesthesia her works which she describes as deeply autobiographical and which evolve when she is at the piano (and at times in her dreams), have not been scored in any form but remain precisely frozen in her memory once evolved. Consistent with her interdisciplinary background, she holds a doctorate for interdisciplinary research involving Linguistics and Musicology from The University of Edinburgh, where she has also been engaged part time in academic teaching since 2007, as well as advanced academic and professional qualifications in Music Performance, Linguistics and Literature.

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Nov/Dec 2021

What makes Ekanayaka’s offering unique is her expanded vision of the future. We still gaze at the heavens with wonder, meditate on infinite mysteries, and imagine a realm beyond space and time. To her credit, Ekanayaka has found musical expressions for moods that cannot be put into words and which reach back before the dawn of history.

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