Liam Singer - Father I See

Liam Singer
Father I See

People who try to combine any sort of traditionalism and piano work will often get lumped either into the New Age category a la George Winston or stand-up Jerry Lee Lewis revivalists like Ben Folds Five. Not Liam Singer. I dug his track “Father I See” because it’s soft minimal tones often seem to be inspired from great modern classical masters but never copy them overtly. This is modern sounding enough, and certainly not piano bar room brawl stuff. There is some beautiful and haunting keyboard work here.

I know some people are going to say P. Glass but I don’t really see that so much. I think he has more in common with some of the newer Earlimart piano songs and his vocal on “Father I See” is very good. I’m almost reminded of Elliott Smith sometimes.

The other track that’s on his label’s (Tell-All-Records) site is called “Asthma / Rivets In Water” and is a really amazing piano instrumental that starts off as slow and straightforward with a strange, tremulous theremin like effect dominating. But it soon explodes into these extremely fast Debussy-like arpeggios.

Like Brad Mehldau, Singer actually plays instrumental piano music that I’d want to sit and listen to. As opposed to the kind that’s made for elevator traversal. But because he actually is able to sing in an engaging manner along with the work, I think his stuff is going to be more palatable to the average indie fan.

Sample tracks from Liam Singer:
Father I See - The Empty Heart of the Chameleon CD
Asthma / Rivets in Water - The Empty Heart of the Chameleon CD

by Tyranosaur