I missed her live show in New York recently but I've been psyched to absorb Kelly Moran's new album, Don't Trust Mirrors. Incredibly talented and bursting with creativity, she's a musician constantly on the move. She is a classically trained piano player but her use of electronics is what usually draws me in, lush but not cliched. She works quite a bit with the Yamaha Disklavier, basically a real acoustic piano hooked up with all sorts of electronics (kind of the mirror image of a synthesizer trying to sound like an acoustic piano). In this recent interview, she explains her process and her debt to the late great Ryuichi Sakamoto, once part of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, but most well-known as the creator of the score for The Last Emperor for which he won an Academy Award.
And like only a handful of artists, she is on the right side of history on one of the most important issues of our day.
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