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RICK WAKEMAN DIGS DEEP INTO EMOTIONS
Melancholia is the keyboard virtuoso’s first-ever LP of self-composed instrumentals.
Rick Wakeman: one man and his piano.
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Rick Wakeman has been telling Prog about Melancholia, his first-ever set of self-penned solo piano pieces, which is out on October 17 via Madfish.
The pieces are the result of his daily dalliances on the ivories and the moods they can often express. “I sit at the piano every day,” he says, “and sometimes things are happening which affect the way I play. Melancholy is an emotion, and not necessarily a bad one. We all have melancholic moments, and more often than not those are when you’re on your own, perhaps just sitting with your own thoughts.”