Belle Chen Shares lush ambient piano composition 'Closer to Rain'
Belle Chen Announces 'Ravel In The Forest: Meditative Reworks' EP on 11th October
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London Jazz Festival 2024 Headline show at EartH London on 18th November Tickets here
Enter into a whimsical forest, a curious and safe space where we can take time for ourselves.
Belle Chen and a host of electronic composers and producers have reworked songs from her recent album 'Ravel In The Forest' and shares an exclusive original unreleased track ‘Closet To The Rain’.
Belle says: "A new track that was not on the original ‘Ravel In The Forest’ album but one that was performed live in Belle Chen’s shows. A nostalgic yet joyful tune the track features synthesizers as raindrops and a curious electric piano melody that evokes the animal murmurs of the forest."
This meditative rework EP coincides with 2024 World Mental Health Day on 10th October. It contains six meditative reworks of tracks from ‘Ravel In The Forest’, pianist-composer Belle Chen’s 2024 release on the Platoon label which entered UK the Official Chart (Specialist Classical) at #7 and Australia’s ARIA Chart (Classical) at #15.
The original ‘Ravel In The Forest’ album was a whimsical journey into the forest, a celebration of textures and colours of the flora and fauna and a musical space where listeners may fall into; to be imaginative, playful, vulnerable, and creative.
This meditative rework EP serves as a parallel space through which listeners may take time to be more in tune with themselves; to decompress, reflect, breathe, and feel. Five unique producers were invited to create reworks of the original tracks, bringing their unique artistic approaches to the project. The result is a colourful and beautiful spectrum of meditative reworks.
Belle Chen performs ‘Ravel In The Forest’ with Engines Orchestra Strings, presented in Hyperreal Live Immersive audio for the EFG London Jazz Festival at London’s EartH Theatre on 18th November 2024.
For this performance, Belle is joined by a string quartet from the award-winning Engines Orchestra led by Phil Meadows (Metropole Orkest, BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia), multi-instrumentalist Brendan Cox (Imogen Heap, Guy Sigsworth, Patrick Wolf), and Korean piri artist Seayool.
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About Belle Chen
With a distinctive combination of piano melodies and evocative synths, pianist-composer Belle Chen's soundworld straddles acoustic and electronic realms.\
As an independent artist, Chen's music has accumulated over 30 million streams. Her latest album 'Ravel In The Forest' was released under Platoon, charting at #7 on UK's Official Chart (Classical) and #15 on Australia's ARIA Chart (Classical). Her catalogue, which traces her journey in self-discovery beginning as a classical pianist, into various realms of experimental and post-classical approaches, and finally landing on her finding her true artistic identity, are distributed through The Orchard/Sony.
Belle's live shows feel equally at ease across classical stages (LSO St. Luke's, Southbank Centre, Kings Place, BBC Radio 3 Live Broadcasts with BBC Philharmonic Strings), post-classical stages (Piano City Milano Midnight Main Stage, Royal Albert Hall Steinway Series), rock stages (Shambala Festival, Tallinn Music Week), cultural stages (OzAsia Festival, K-Music Festival), jazz stages (Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Tetracordo Jazz Festival), and experimental stages (Cafe OTO, National Theatre of Korea).
As a composer, her recent commissions and syncs include: BBC Sounds, BBC Concert Orchestra, Gucci Archive, London Fashion Week, Shanghai Fashion Week, Joffrey Ballet, Deezer Originals, and her original score for animation film [S] is screening this year at Annecy International Festival, Sundance Film Festival etc
