Name: I Am Human
Brand: Tony Tixier

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

WR4771LP

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Colour

silver

Colour details

Marbled Silver 180gm Vinyl

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-02-05

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

'0630808829048

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / silver

Artist

Tony Tixier

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Whirlwind Recordings

In response to a world struggling with disruption and discord, Tony Tixier has instinctively turned towards his music as a way to re-establish the sundered connections of everyday existence. 'I Am Human', a series of remotely records duets - was created when he returned from a sell-out US tour to find himself locked down in his Paris apartment. An escape route appeared out of a happy combination of chances: a loan of a new piano from Yamaha and an encounter with a neighbour, David Freiss, who turned out to be an expert sound engineer. Tixier conceived a plan to spontaneously record a series of pieces, all in one take, and then send them out across the world to a chosen band of his closest musical accomplices - Scott Tixier, Hermon Mehari, Ben Leifer, Logan Richardson and Adrien Soleiman - musicians with whom he felt so closely in tune that the enforced separation of time and space could be overcome - and invited them to overdub a response to create a series of virtual duet recordings "Each track is dedicated to a friend, someone I feel close to - I sent them the track in the morning, and by the afternoon I had the track back with their parts." Each side of the release is opened with a performance of an original solo piece by Tixier, both recorded back to back. Leaking Life is a meditation on the passing of time and a call to action to make the most of every day. Humain is an expression of his own identity "A presentation of myself - I don't see myself as mixed race - I am 100% black, 100% white, 100% human." Tixier has travelled the world with the likes of Christian Scott and Keyon Harrold and performed for audiences across four continents, but this is his most personal, direct work to date. Reaching out across the world, sustained by a network of friends, he has delivered a statement for our times that transcends the limitations of remote recording with the sheer force of its emotional connection.

I Am Human

Music GB