Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Ludovico Einaudi's Nightbook

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Pianist Ludovico Einaudi is a DIFFERENT KIND OF CLASSICAL COMPOSER. HE'S A STUDENT OF THE AVANT-GARDE AND THE RICH CLASSICAL TRADITION OF HIS NATIVE ITALY. BUT HE'S A CHILD OF ROCK AND ROLL AND MINIMALISM. ALL OF THAT COMES TOGETHER IN A AMBIENT CHAMBER MUSIC THAT IS PRECISE IN ITS EMOTIONS, SERENE IN ITS REPOSE AND ECSTATIC IN ITS REALIZATION.

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Ludovico Einaudi brings avant-garde edges to rhapsodic piano works. Think George Winston remixed by The Orb, with a bit of 50's exotica, and 60's sci-fi electronics.

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On tracks like "In Principio" he nods to Harold Budd and Brian Eno, expanding the concept of solo piano with haunting glitched echoes and fractured reverb. It's like unearthing a digital artifact and seeing its beautiful image through a cracked lens.

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Ludovico Einaudi could probably make pretty piano music in a new age vein, but where new age pianists get lost in sentiment and mired in saccarine goo, Einaudi brings an emotional precision and a cerebral play that probably comes from his studies with Italian avant-garde icon, Luciano Berio. Listen to the calibrated emotions of "Reverie," a wistful track for piano, vibes and cello that seems like the last wave goodbye.

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Ludovico Einaudi has an electro-ambient trio called Whitetree that includes electronic musician Robert Lippok. He's all over Nightbook, playing electronic sounds that don't glisten and groove like chromium clockwork. Instead, they wheeze and whisper like busted steam pipes and dream voices. "Bye Bye Mon Amour" is an ecstatic interplay between Einaudi's piano and Robert Lippok's electronics that sounds like mid-period Pink Floyd.

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Nightbook isn't all reverie and melancholy. Percussion drives "Lady Labyrinth" as Einaudi pounds out left hand chords against a subtley syncopated beat that sounds like the score for the last charge into the breach.

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Ludovico Einaudi has some 20 albums out in Europe where he sells out venues like the Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican Centre in London. But nightbook may be the best introduction to the range of this artist. He creates a sound that's cinematic, but also intimate. NIGHTBOOK IS OUT ON PONDEROSA MUSIC AND ARTS RECORDS. IT'S THE ECHOES cd OF THE MONTH FOR March and I'll feature it on Monday's show. This has been an echo location, soundings for new music. For Echoes and the Xpn Morning Show, I'm John Diliberto

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Ludovico Einaudi has some 20 albums out in Europe where he sells out venues like the Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican Centre in London. But nightbook may be the best introduction to the range of this artist. He creates a sound that's cinematic, but also intimate. NIGHTBOOK IS OUT ON PONDEROSA MUSIC AND ARTS RECORDS. I'm John Diliberto and this has been an echo location, soundings for new music.