Leaving This Behind Again

Label: Moderna
Date: March 29, 2023

A piece for Moderna’s annual Piano Day Fractals compilation centred around the upright piano, with a curation focused on the label’s signature melodic minimalism

Mastered by Tom Adams

Artwork by Iain Perry

Available on Bandcamp and all digital platforms

Leaving This Behind Again is a heavily layered piece, both from the production perspective, interweaving deep analogue synthesis with soft felted piano and post-tape lo-fi processing, as well as from the tightly entangled emotional space which it occupies in the heart. The slowly receding and dissolving piano melody resonates on a very personal level, like a fading photograph or an old forgotten cassette, evoking buried fragments of a memory, even as it is being created at this very moment. The overall aesthetic attempts to capture a slice of time during which you are fully aware that even this experience will pass, and even this short-lived and happy moment one day will still evoke a tear. But you must let it go. And leave all this behind again.
— MIKE LAZAREV