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ICE - Piano Slightly Chilled

Fiona Joy Hawkins

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Album Review

In the mid- to late 2000s, Australian-based pianist Fiona Joy Hawkins created a global sensation with the two best-selling indie instrumental recordings that launched her career. Her 2005 debut, Portrait of a Waterfall, hit number one on the New Age Reporter World Charts, made the Top Five in the MusicOz Awards for the classical genre, and was a finalist for Best Piano Album at the 2005 NAR Lifestyle Music Awards. The multifaceted composer/performer — whose music is a staple on Sky FM Internet radio's solo piano channel — followed that with Angel Above My Piano, which won Best Piano Album at NAR Lifestyle Music Awards in 2006. New age and classical were the foundations for a cool and melodic, spiritually uplifting yet edgy electronica-driven hybrid style she called Blend. Ice: Piano Slightly Chilled broke ground on this vibe, which sounds like what might have happened if David Lanz and Paul Speer's new age/rock projects in the '80s had taken a time machine toward the age of chill in the 2000s. Hawkins' trippy, hypnotic track "Frosted View" — which swirls graceful, rhythmic acoustic piano with exotic electronic percussion textures and otherworldly sounds and effects — won similar acclaim at the MusicOz Awards. The sweeping opening track, "Iced Rain," incorporates all kinds of strange effects over the texturing of simmering rock guitar and ambience, but never forsakes the hypnotic piano melody. The ice theme permeates the entire disc from there on out, from the song titles ("Antarctic Wings," "Frozen Rose") to the mixture of icicle-sharp acoustic piano notes and swirling soundscapes that keep the wind at the listener's back and inspire notions of rushing through frozen tundra.

Customer Reviews

ICE

Excellent blending of the keys, both the electronic and stringed. This is music to relax and stir you. The word I would use would be REFRESHING.

SmoothLounge.com

There’s nothing like an emotion-stirring piece of piano music… now imagine ten of them. That’s what’s awaiting you on Fiona Joy Hawkins' enrapturing new release, ICE – PIANO SLIGHTLY CHILLED. Classically trained as a pianist, the Australian composer is on the cutting edge of contemporary music that plays well in the World lounge – meaning that listeners all over the globe will find something to attach to in this very personal and inspiring music. She’s charted at the tippy top of New Age music charts with her previous releases and is now piquing the curiosity of chill, electronica and lounge enthusiasts everywhere with ICE – PIANO SLIGHTLY CHILLED. Fiona has the keen ability to synchronize her visual art (original, dazzling, colorful mixed abstracts are available on her website) with her musical compositions. Fiona says, “The idea of synchronicity has always intrigued me, colours, ideas and emotions all have corresponding sounds which are a description of everything I see and feel.” ICE – PIANO SLIGHTLY CHILLED is cinematic, elevating and enthralling… at first listen we knew that we had discovered something deluxe and delightful. Truly tapped in as a conduit to the creative source, Ms. Hawkins has captured our hearts with songs like the entrancing “Frosted View,” the dramatic “Winter Cold,” the delicate and swirling “White View,” and the sensual, Jane Siberry-esque “Crystalized Love.” Chill out at your earliest convenience to Fiona Joy Hawkins’ slightly chilled piano and prepare for deep lounging and relaxation.

Review from NewAgeMusicWorld.Com / NewAgeMusic.nu

Australian composer and pianist Fiona Joy Hawkins has 4 award winning projects at present. Her most recent Blue Dream album is successful in placing an exclamation mark after her name when recognizing Fiona’s outstanding abilities and claim to fame in international status. Fiona’s many achievements include charting at # 1 on World New Age radio charts spanning 9 countries, Best Piano album in the NAR Lifestyle Music Awards in 2006, and as finalist in 2 genres in the LA Music Awards in 2007. She also won the Classical / Jazz category in the Music OZ Awards in 2008. after being a finalist 5 times and ranked finalist in 4 categories including Album of the Year in the NAR Awards in 2009.

It is on the Ice album where this patent innovation in New Age, Contemporary piano begins, charting an adventurous course in the way a musician blends Classical New Age, Contemporary, Chill Out, Jazz, World and Rock. What impressed me the most was a momentary departure from her exceptional, yet more Contemporary albums that won her claim to fame. Portions of the Rock overtones present in this album challenge some of our basic assumptions of the term Piano music. Another concept is a transition in the way Rock music has been perceived in the past, creating a new approach in the way we view the term Rock music. With an inventor’s approach, Fiona’s compositions are patently administered on her Steinway Concert piano as a new musical prototype.

The 10 songs are issued titles with an icy thermodynamic theme, setting the spine chilling mood in motion by providing a mid tempo application of Classic New Age Chill. The song Iced Rain discloses a trademark Fiona Joy Hawkins piano arrangement, yet grants an exclusive design concept by applying a mixture of genres and unique instrumentation. While Aboriginal Didgeridoo echoes an indigenous woodwind call to the wild, ebony and ivory piano keys appear to reach an entire range of octaves to establish a new dimension in piano music. Thunderous percussion unites with electrified guitar to diagram the upbeat momentum for this ground breaking discovery by commingling Classic piano and Rock music into a single entity.

The Ice project discloses more than just an improvement made to a prior existing musical product. Fiona takes an inventor’s approach in redefining the fundamental basics of the way we perceive Piano and Rock music. Cloud Chill is a song innovation that starts out as a meteorological weather advisory on the horizon when native Didgeridoo once again reverbs an ancient voice into the past, present, and future. Fiona’s epic design in piano rhythms then integrate with electric guitar, blending into musical matter cool enough to penetrate what we term Rock music.

Her novel invention in composing first finds a crack, pressurizes and then expands, breaking the barrier of Rock music from a familiar musical genre, shattering what was once a large form of music into tiny little pieces, thereby creating a new music entity. The Ice project discloses more than just an improvement made to a prior existing musical product. Fiona takes an inventor’s approach in redefining the fundamental basics of the way we perceive Piano and Rock music.

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