28 June 2024

Previous Fireflies Post Prompted this Excursion

Fireflies are Nina Walsh & Franck Alba. I have featured Nina before involving her relationship as long term creative partner to Andrew Weatherall. The two ran the Sabres of Paradise & Sabrettes record labels. They later released material as Woodleigh Research Facility which I have extensively shared in the past.

The other half of Fireflies is guitarist Franck Alba (photo - 1st right). Franck was a long-time member of the Anglo-French ambient pop experimentalists Piano Magic. 

 



Piano Magic was formed by Glen Johnson in 1996, who used Ivo's collective This Mortal Coil as the template for his group. No less than 30 musicians have passed through their ranks, the solo constant being Glen. Franck has been onboard since the days of The Troubled Sleep of Piano Magic (2003).

Here is Piano Magic's final studio release... 

 

Piano Magic - Closure, Second Language SL036, 2016.
decryption code in comments

Closure    
Landline    
Exile    
Let Me Introduce You    
Living For Other People    
You Never Stop Loving (The One That You Loved)    
Attention To Life    
I Left You Twice, Not Once


 
 
Enjoy,

2 comments:

  1. Closure
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  2. Thanks N0, I haven't come across Piano Magic since the 90s and had no idea they carried on to the 2010s

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