Naviar Virtual is a monthly online event hosted by Naviar Records, which aims to bring online the spirit of Naviar’s yearly physical events, currently on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
NV is an excellent opportunity to showcase the works of Naviar’s community to a global audience and give artists a chance to share their music during these unpredictable times.
This event was broadcast on Naviar’s Youtube channel on 30th September:
youtu.be/PAdQQl5JQBc
Adrian Lane (interview + live set)
adrianlane.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/adrian.lane.music
Adrian Lane produces quiet, intimate neo-classical music that explores sounds largely from acoustic sources, but using the computer as a writing tool, he works much more like an electronic musician. The music feels acoustic, and employs a combination of age-old instruments (piano, violin, alto and baritone bowed psalteries, acoustic guitar, banjo, zither, glockenspiel) mixed with synthesizers and virtual instruments and constructed in a way that could only be achieved with modern technology. Adrian likes to tread the line between the real and the virtual so that this would be difficult to discern for the listener.
Adrian Lane has released 9 albums to date, on the labels Preserved Sound, Hibernate Recordings and Whitelabrecs, and each album focuses on a different palette of sounds. Some albums are largely piano based, and others have no piano at all, focusing more on stringed instruments.
Each piece has a melancholy, cinematic quality with a strong sense of melody; “It’s quite amazing to experience the diverse piano melodies that Lane is able to create throughout a 53 minute masterpiece of works.” writes Ambiance Glitters on his album ‘I Have Promises To Keep’.
“… an itinerary of reflective and autumnal sensations, oriented towards a serene and subtly melancholy contemplation” – Music Won’t Save You
released October 9, 2021