℗ 2022 Luke Howard
Released | April 29, 2022 |
Duration | 49m 24s |
Record Label | Mercury Classics |
Genre | Classical (Classical Crossover) |
1.1
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Critical Spirit
Luke Howard; Luke Howard |
4:51 | |||
1.2
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A Different Idea of Love
Luke Howard; Luke Howard; Budapest Art Orchestra; Peter Pejtsik |
3:55 | |||
1.3
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A World of Abstractions
Luke Howard; Luke Howard |
1:05 | |||
1.4
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An Hour Off for Friendship
Luke Howard; Luke Howard; Budapest Art Orchestra; Peter Pejtsik |
3:48 | |||
1.5
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The Compass of a Telegraph
Luke Howard; Luke Howard |
1:29 | |||
1.6
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The Closing of the Gates
Luke Howard; Luke Howard; Budapest Art Orchestra; Peter Pejtsik |
6:02 | |||
1.7
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The Opening of the Gates
Luke Howard; Luke Howard |
4:59 | |||
1.8
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The Moment Only
Luke Howard; Luke Howard |
1:34 | |||
1.9
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The Vast Indifference of the Sky
Luke Howard; Luke Howard; Budapest Art Orchestra; Peter Pejtsik |
5:19 | |||
1.10
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I Was Very Fond of You, But Now I'm So Tired
Luke Howard; Luke Howard |
1:38 | |||
1.11
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A Language Forgotten
Luke Howard; Luke Howard |
4:04 | |||
1.12
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A Faint Qualm for the Future
Luke Howard; Luke Howard |
2:41 | |||
1.13
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The End of the First Period
Luke Howard; Luke Howard |
2:42 | |||
1.14
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Interlude
Luke Howard; Luke Howard |
0:55 | |||
1.15
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A Collective Destiny
Luke Howard; Luke Howard |
4:22 |
Australian composer and instrumentalist Luke Howard releases his new album All Of Us. Like all the residents of Melbourne, Luke Howard lived through the longest Covid-related lockdown in the world. Turning adversity into an artistic triumph, he forged a new album, his second solo record for Mercury KX and a new benchmark for the contemporary classical composer, pianist and Australian Music Prize nominee.
All Of Us is not only an exquisite portrait of isolation, loss, resistance and reconciliation in both stark and rich shades of piano, orchestra and electronics, but the theme of quarantine provides a framework for the record. In this strange, unsettling and unexpected world, he found himself turning to French novelist Albert Camus’ classic absurdist novel The Plague, written in 1947, in which the prescient saga of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran was an existential allegory for humanity’s vulnerability and inability to control its own destiny.
Throughout the album, Howard shifts between subtle permutations of shifting sound, etched with his trademark intimacy and restraint, and applied with a palate both minimalist and expansive; to his own piano, celeste and synthesiser, the Budapest Art Orchestra (conducted by Peter Pejtsik) plays strings, guests added flugelhorn, viola, contrabass and modular synth whilst fellow post-classicist Ben Lukas Boysen provides additional programming, production and mixing on ‘Critical Spirit’ and ‘The Opening Of The Gates’.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Mercury Classics Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -2.47 -6.98 to -0.20 | -21.28 -28.38 to -13.01 | -18.43 -25.30 to -10.30 | 11 8 to 13 | |
1 | Critical Spirit | -0.20 | -17.67 | -15.2 | 10 |
2 | A Different Idea of Love | -0.23 | -17.40 | -14.8 | 11 |
3 | A World of Abstractions | -4.06 | -23.98 | -21.0 | 11 |
4 | An Hour Off for Friendship | -0.21 | -18.83 | -15.9 | 11 |
5 | The Compass of a Telegraph | -6.98 | -28.38 | -25.3 | 12 |
6 | The Closing of the Gates | -0.21 | -18.28 | -15.1 | 10 |
7 | The Opening of the Gates | -0.31 | -18.56 | -16.5 | 10 |
8 | The Moment Only | -0.20 | -13.01 | -10.3 | 8 |
9 | The Vast Indifference of the Sky | -0.82 | -22.20 | -19.6 | 12 |
10 | I Was Very Fond of You, But Now I'm So Tired | -4.55 | -25.34 | -21.4 | 12 |
11 | A Language Forgotten | -0.70 | -20.43 | -18.5 | 11 |
12 | A Faint Qualm for the Future | -5.00 | -23.54 | -20.6 | 12 |
13 | The End of the First Period | -5.12 | -21.76 | -19.4 | 10 |
14 | Interlude | -6.78 | -27.00 | -22.7 | 11 |
15 | A Collective Destiny | -1.62 | -22.79 | -20.1 | 13 |