There’s just so much divine, cosmic beauty, and meaning in that entire experience.” Cook will play All These Years in the Nelson Music Room at Duke University, an intimate recital hall built in 1912. The sounds of the street bled through those brick walls.Ĭook describes the resulting songs as “hymn-provisations,” telling the INDY Week ’s Dan Ruccia that making the album was “an act of me getting out of my own way and having it not be about anything other than what needed to come through in a moment. These ten pieces came to life on a long-cared-for and much-loved 100 year-old Steinway over three days at the church. Yet it was during hour-long stretches of improvisation in NorthStar Church of the Arts in Durham where the music could open up to the presence of divine intoxication. Phil experimented with sanctuary in order to honor the ritual: he retreated alone to the mountains in North Carolina to write, sojourned to family abodes in Wisconsin to nurture. In a note accompanying the recording, Trevor Hagen describe the process: Recorded on a 1923 Steinway in Durham’s NorthStar Church of the Arts, All These Years is “a turn toward the minimal, the meditative, the powerful” ( Volume One magazine ) that finds Cook exploring his relationship to the piano, his primary instrument. Phil Cook returns to Duke Performances for an intimate performance of the entirety of his new solo piano album All These Years. Phil Cook Tuesday, Ma| 8:00 pm Nelson Music Room A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, solo artist, and in-demand musician whose collaborations have run the gamut of genre - as a founding member of beloved band Megafaun to work with The Blind Boys of Alabama, Bon Iver, Kanye West, and Hiss Golden Messenger, to name a few - Cook has always been a musician’s musician.
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