Onomatopoetika

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"Great. Brave, naked, intense, raw. Ultimately, that's what real art is: when the artist speaks about themselves and the listener feels they are hearing their own story. Star pianist Igor Levit praised Malakoff Kowalski's last album 'My First Piano' (2018) and continues today about the new solo piano album 'Onomatopoetika': "The most beautiful love confession to Erik Satie I have ever heard."Recently named "The Poet of the Piano" by Vogue Magazine, Malakoff Kowalski was born to Persian parents in Boston and grew up in Hamburg, Germany. He currently resides in Berlin, where his new album 'Onomatopoetika' was recorded and mixed by German neo-classical pioneer Nils Frahm in his famous Funkhaus studio. Described by Chilly Gonzales as "a deep and haunting piano suite. Mystical and unexpected," the ten post-romantic piano pieces are inspired by composers such as Sibelius, Grieg, Scriabin, and the aforementioned Erik Satie."When I sit down at the piano, everything else disappears. As if I were in an empty cinema with no film being shown. At the piano, I find a way to say things for which there are no words."Kowalski has shared the stage with notable pianists Chilly Gonzales, Alice Sara Ott, Olga Sheps, and Hauschka on numerous occasions.