The Seasons Are Not Four, by Alex Kozobolis

The Seasons Are Not Four

by Alex Kozobolis

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Scott I'm hearing a lot of interesting things in these pieces! The free-flowing nature of Alex's playing is extraordinarily restful to me and always triggers my imagination in some way. In an effort to listen to the music through a proper stereo system, I've been hooking up the smartphone to the mixer until the vinyl arrives. I'm delighted to be adding another Kozobolis record to my shelf of sacred objects. Favorite track: I Promise.

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1.	Time Stands Silent And Still 03:53	buy track
2.	And This Too Shall Pass 03:42	buy track
3.	As We Chase After The Wind 02:57	buy track
4.	In Sunray Gardens 03:15	buy track
5.	Despite The Cold 03:00	buy track
6.	Through The Leaves 04:16	buy track
7.	The Light Will Warm Us Again 02:41	buy track
8.	As It Fell 05:07	buy track
9.	We Stood Together 05:00	buy track
10.	And Everything Was New 07:40	buy track
11.	It's Been So Long 06:46	buy track
12.	And Soon I'll Have To Leave Again 06:47	buy track
13.	Someday Though, We'll Be Together 03:03	buy track
14.	I Promise 04:25	buy track

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A collection of structured piano improvisations and their surrounding sonic environments, an album in four parts:

Songs From a Distant Summer | From November
For Snow | Together

Recorded between 2011-2013, the album was never intended to be a direct response to the seasons. The coincidence of the recordings having been made at points within the seasons was only pointed out at a later date by a friend.

Alongside wishing to avoid any parallels or associations being drawn with Vivaldi’s masterpiece, the title - “The Seasons Are Not Four” - a line from a poem by Syrian poet Adonis , appeared to fit perfectly - recognising our relationship to time but also alluding to the impossibility of truly categorising it.

Due to label arrangements and complications the majority of these recordings have remained unreleased for a decade. One notable exception being the piece “I Promise”, that went on to amass in excess of 24 million streams - an unfathomable prospect for a piano-less pianist recording a reunion between himself and a piano at a point of not having played one for several months.

The Seasons Are Not Four serves as a sonic record of real-time responses to the character of a piano, to transient states of being and to disparate, fleeting moments in time -

some will hear Summer in Winter,
others- Autumn in Spring;
distant conversation beyond the sounds of a hesitant human shuffling fingers against wooden keys,
the ticking of a grandfather clock or the song of birds outside masking passing traffic.

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‘The Seasons Are Not Four, a week is not seven days, a year is more than it is, and less’
Adonis

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In memory of Ingrid Beazley, on whose white upright Furstein many of these improvisations were recorded.

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released October 13, 2023

composed and recorded between 2011-2013
by Alex Kozobolis on a Zoom H4n at:

Ingrid's upright Furstein, South London
an upright Berry, South London
an upright H.Lubitz, Norwich

Analogue Mastering - Ed Hamilton

EP Cover illustrations - Luciana Salgado

Main Cover marbling - Roz Edenbrow

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Alex Kozobolis is an English / Greek, self-taught composer and visual artist, based in London / Brighton UK.

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