“Sanctuary (Overtones and Deviations)” is the debut album of London-based composer James Batty. It’s a project where he let his ideas “roam free, without the constraints of a particular sound or genre”, and was completed over a period of three months. In some tracks he combines otherworldly ambient electronics with ephemeral snippets of re-tuned piano. Others are beautifully crafted solo piano compositions that exploit the harmonic resonances of the piano to evoke different moods. Breaking out of the confines of the traditional 12-tone Western scale, much of the album features a 16-tone scale derived from the harmonic series. The music was inspired by painting, sculpture and film by artists Jo Baer, Henry Moore and Michael Haneke.

Source: Zeromoon.com