After the Azerbaijani pianist and composer Isfar Sarabski recently announced his debut album “Planet” for April 30th and released the first track from it, there is now a special new piano version of the piece to be heard, which focuses on the unique piano playing of the 31st -Year-old places. In the solo piano passage of the two-part title track, Sarabski sounds as if he was secretly trying to play jazz in the style of Rachmaninoff. A free snapshot meets hidden cadences that are not directly present in the first auditory impression.
Regarding the meaning of the title, he says that it summarizes “my feelings and views about our planet. In the compositions, I reflect on the people, the events that have affected us all in recent years, and the new situations that we have to deal with, with the wish to enter into a dialogue with my listeners about them. "
During his scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Sarabski impressed fellow students and teachers alike with his curious and open-minded meander between jazz impressionism, the folklore tradition of his homeland and the exploration of electronic soundscapes. For him, genre boundaries are only there to connect them with one another through musical bridges.