Electronic music heavyweight Martin Roth will release his second full-length, piano-led album ‘Mono No Aware’ on Reflections this fall, the new sister label of Anjunadeep.
Roth is well-known for his ability to glide between genres while maintaining a distinct, instantly-identifiable style, and his new release is no exception. With this 13-track album, Roth moves away from the club space and into his classical pianist background to explore themes of impermanence, fatherhood, and simplicity.
The second single, ‘Sine Waves’, is a collaboration with British neo-classical pianist and producer Tom Ashbrook, made from a simple waveform or sine wave from a synthesizer’s percussion and organ pad.
An accomplished composer and musician, Tom Ashbrook has shared the stage alongside music legends Paul McCartney, John Newman, and Sting. Now the pair team up for their debut collaboration, presenting a textured, piano-laden electronica track that masterfully creates suspense, builds tension and ends in a release.
Joining the Anjuna label family back in 2008 with a remix of Above & Beyond’s trance anthem ‘Miracle’ on Anjunabeats, Martin Roth has since provided numerous standout moments within the Anjunadeep back catalog including ‘Have You Ever’, ‘Organic Brewed Hipster Funk’, and 2012 label classic ‘Beautiful Life.’ During the lockdown, while Anjunadeep launched their series of ambient VA compilations, Roth moved from club to piano-led music and the release of his first full-length downtempo album, ‘An Analog Guy In A Digital World.’
Roth says it’s no coincidence his two full-length albums are classical-leaning. His emotions pour out of his hands and into the piano, and ‘Mono No Aware’ is an amalgamation of these stories and experiences. He began the writing process in mid-2021 while the world was still under COVID’s thumb, and says lockdown in Germany was the perfect backdrop to write an album steeped in melancholia. The nostalgia and impermanence even extend to the name – ‘Mono No Aware’ which is a Japanese phrase that means awareness that everything fades away.
‘Sine Waves‘ is out now and ‘Mono No Aware’ is released on September 12th on Reflections – preorder here.
Listen to the track below.
