Duo w/ Denman Maroney - hyperpiano

Denman Maroney, whose technique has come to focus almost entirely on the interior of the piano. Hans Tammen, whose guitar has been seized, carried away from its familiar territories and reconstructed elsewhere...

Together, Maroney and Tammen work like grass in the sun, propagating in all directions, colonising scraps of fertile land, growing from the middle and springing up, unannounced, in seemingly impossible places. Their music is something like a piece of turf: chaotic on the surface with its forest of apparently separate details, interlinked underneath, woven together, again without structure or rationale, a maze of infinite complexity.

MP3-Audio from our CD Billabong
Top photo by Sheila Schonbrun
Denman Maroney: http://www.pipeline.com/~denman

Pianists have bee tinkering with the guts of their instruments for nearly a century now, but it’s altogether likely that no one has explored the art of prepared piano as diligently or creatively as ‘hyperpianist’ Denman Maroney. (Time Out New York)