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Browse piano sheets by Duval Timothy on Zen Virtual Piano. Duval Timothy has said both his parents are artists who chose careers in architecture because it seemed more realistic, and that he grew up with loads of art around the house, and music as well. His father moved at age nine from Sierra Leone to a boarding school in Taunton, England, and met his mother, a plant-loving woman from the south of England, at Sheffield University. A household of artists in architects’ jobs, and a family stretched between Sierra Leone and England, gives his own double life a family precedent. After studying art at Central St Martin’s, he found himself on a fine art trajectory, putting on exhibitions and installations in and around South London. A fine-art training and a piano practice both feed the same artist’s work. His fourth album, Help, follows his 2012 Bandcamp debut Dukobanti, and The Quietus describes it as built around deceptively simple piano hooks that draw on abstract art and on the sampling and looping of hip hop to address concerns such as mental health and the legacies of transatlantic slavery. An artist who studied at Central St Martin’s and a pianist using the looping habits of hip hop show how two training grounds sit inside the same music. Pitchfork describes two guises: a leftfield solo-piano composer who strikes luminous chords while probing diasporic identity, and a collaborator of Kendrick Lamar, who included four of their collaborations on Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. His third album, released on 27 October 2017 on Carrying Colour Records, samples WhatsApp messages from family and friends in Sierra Leone alongside solo piano compositions, and he says it explores his identity, the migration of people and urban environmental change. WhatsApp messages from family and friends woven into piano pieces put distance from home directly into the sound. He has said, “I’m only ever doing two projects seriously at any one time. I devote myself to that. I feel like all these things, they’re different languages, but I’m kind of doing the same thing in each.” Calling his projects different languages for the same thing is a neat way to describe a multidisciplinary practice. He splits his time between London and Freetown, the Sierra Leonean capital, where he has built a recording studio for locals next to his grandmother’s old house, and he never performs live. Instead he noodles on an upright piano on his Freetown balcony, attracting children from neighboring houses. A pianist who noodles on a balcony where children from neighboring houses gather makes the audience local rather than ticketed.
Browse piano sheets by Duval Timothy on Zen Virtual Piano.
Duval Timothy has said both his parents are artists who chose careers in architecture because it seemed more realistic, and that he grew up with loads of art around the house, and music as well. His father moved at age nine from Sierra Leone to a boarding school in Taunton, England, and met his mother, a plant-loving woman from the south of England, at Sheffield University. A household of artists in architects’ jobs, and a family stretched between Sierra Leone and England, gives his own double life a family precedent.
After studying art at Central St Martin’s, he found himself on a fine art trajectory, putting on exhibitions and installations in and around South London. A fine-art training and a piano practice both feed the same artist’s work. His fourth album, Help, follows his 2012 Bandcamp debut Dukobanti, and The Quietus describes it as built around deceptively simple piano hooks that draw on abstract art and on the sampling and looping of hip hop to address concerns such as mental health and the legacies of transatlantic slavery. An artist who studied at Central St Martin’s and a pianist using the looping habits of hip hop show how two training grounds sit inside the same music.
Pitchfork describes two guises: a leftfield solo-piano composer who strikes luminous chords while probing diasporic identity, and a collaborator of Kendrick Lamar, who included four of their collaborations on Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. His third album, released on 27 October 2017 on Carrying Colour Records, samples WhatsApp messages from family and friends in Sierra Leone alongside solo piano compositions, and he says it explores his identity, the migration of people and urban environmental change. WhatsApp messages from family and friends woven into piano pieces put distance from home directly into the sound. He has said, “I’m only ever doing two projects seriously at any one time. I devote myself to that. I feel like all these things, they’re different languages, but I’m kind of doing the same thing in each.” Calling his projects different languages for the same thing is a neat way to describe a multidisciplinary practice.
He splits his time between London and Freetown, the Sierra Leonean capital, where he has built a recording studio for locals next to his grandmother’s old house, and he never performs live. Instead he noodles on an upright piano on his Freetown balcony, attracting children from neighboring houses. A pianist who noodles on a balcony where children from neighboring houses gather makes the audience local rather than ticketed.
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He splits his time between London and Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, where he has built a recording studio for locals next to his grandmother’s old house.
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers includes four collaborations between Kendrick Lamar and Duval Timothy.
An album released on 27 October 2017 on Carrying Colour Records that samples WhatsApp messages from family and friends in Sierra Leone alongside solo piano compositions.