{"product_id":"richard-pike-redemption-suite-i-ix-for-piano-textures-lp","title":"Richard Pike - Redemption Suite I-IX: For Piano \u0026 Textures (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing the passing of Ryuichi Sakamoto in early 2023, Richard Pike turned to the piano as a daily ritual of improvisation – or, as he frames it, real-time composition. The result is [album title], a suite of intimate pieces for piano and looping textures that explore cassette sound sources, minimalism, harmony, and the fragile acoustic artefacts that surface from the process.\n\nPike’s method was simple and disciplined: gather tape loops and sonic beds in the studio each morning, then move to a 1950s Eavestaff Minipiano in the living room to record melodic responses over them. These performances were captured quickly and left largely unedited, allowing instinct, error, and texture to dictate shape and direction.\n\nThe music reflects a fascination with earthy, worn sound worlds, drawing on influences such as Romeo Poirier, Deepchord and early musique concrète, as well as Pike’s own history with the tape-scarred aesthetics that informed his early work with Warp-affiliated band PVT.\n\nThis is a quietly expressive record of repetition, decay and emergence – a document of daily practice finding form almost by accident.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salmon Universe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47925147336963,"sku":"SU021","price":6758.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/files\/unnamed_1_8638ecdd-f18a-4231-944c-521b3aa8b397.jpg?v=1775726509","url":"https:\/\/meditations.jp\/en\/products\/richard-pike-redemption-suite-i-ix-for-piano-textures-lp","provider":"Meditations","version":"1.0","type":"link"}