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“The album provides a balance of order and feeling...and moods that range from quiet and solemn to quirky and bluesy.” – John Ephland, DownBeat In the spring of 2015 Wayne Horvitz, with longtime Seattle collaborators Eric Eagle and Geoff Harper, spent a most of a week in residence at SnowGhost Studios in Whitefish, Montana. SnowGhost is a state-of-the-art 21st century studio with great acoustic spaces, and a meticulously maintained Steinway B grand piano. Owner Brett Allen, who has a keen interest in experimental music, engineered the sessions. In exchange, at the end of the residency the trio gave an intimate private concert for Allen’s invited guests, a group of audiophile engineers and developers. The Snowghost Sessions is Horvitz’s first trio record since the 1980s, and his first piano/keys-bass-drums record ever. Wayne describes the working vibe: “I’ve never felt so free of expectations in the recording studio in my life. Whitefish is a quiet town in a beautiful place, and it’s easy to focus and leave the outside world behind. The sessions were relaxed, creative, and without a specific goal. We didn’t set out to make a record, we just set out to enjoy the process. I brought in a pile of tunes and sketches, including some chamber pieces from my installation 55: Music and Dance in Concrete, and we started making music. The only thing I knew was, I wanted to work with Eric and Geoff, and I wanted find an organic marriage between the idea of a piano trio and some ideas I’d been exploring with amplified and processed piano.”