emilie levienaise-farrouch: like water through the sand

Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch is an award-winning French pianist / composer currently living in London. Spanning film score, bespoke composition and sound design, her work is connected by both its high quality and evocative, meticulous craft - a common sensibility of elegant, instinctual composition. Shifting fluidly from solo piano pieces (the churning The Sum Of Our Flaws and Six Of Swords; the poignant delicacy of Hands Closed Together or Strelka) to stirring chamber pieces (the formal elegance of Cotidal Lines; the expansive Minnesang; the stirring sweep of Sublimation) and foregrounding explorative electronic enhancements (the delay-aggregation of Tulsi, the pulse-driven Persephone and Scale Of Volatility), the album is broad-ranged and playful yet cohesive and fully formed. A gorgeously detailed and hugely impressive debut, Like Water Through The Sand manages to sound at once fresh and familiar. It nestles comfortably within the contemporary cannon of post-classical producers / composers which 130701 played a formative part in helping establish (the adventurous modern landscape of Max Richter, Johann Johansson, Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka, Nils Frahm, et al), and reveals a brilliant new voice to add to the firmament.