Erik Satie: Slow Music ( Full Album)

Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): Physical purchase: Composer: Erik Satie Artist: Jeroen van Veen (piano) Open your head, light as an egg and from the top of your back teeth: such phrases are only to be found in the scores of the eccentric Erik Satie, a composer born into a generation where only more could be more the postWagnerian age of richly furnished, intense music full of emotional layering. Expelled from the Paris Conservatoire for being its laziest student, Satie rebelled strongly against the musical climate in which he grew up, instead choosing to adopt a voice that did away with what he considered to be pretentious behaviour and which instead drew on irony through the use of free association, subtle dissonances and unexpected asides.