Lessening

A collection of melancholic solo piano improvisations by musician/producer Peter Sené. Each track has been paired with macro-photography stills by Jamie Allen and Rob Heilig, celebrating the beauty within the mundane textures of our lives.

Following a pretty hectic few months of touring, I was professionally playing music live more then any other time in my life, but found I was not creating music purely for the joy and emotional process of it. There was always some other reason - to finish a track off for someone else, play a show for the band I was working with.

As is the case with most people involved professionally in anything creative or in the arts (if not most people generally), I have a tendency towards total imposter syndrome; getting obsessive over insignificant details, overcomplicating or overthinking whatever I create and comparing it with the output of others and judging it insignificant.

To overcome this, I decided for every day I was at home for the first couple of months of 2016 to record one solo piano performance. I’d come and just play about for an hour or so to get some rough ideas, then just hit record and play.