This album is came out little bit over a year ago. Though I couldn't resist to write about. I came across it with discovery of White Paddy Mountain - Japanese label that focused on meditative ambient and neo-classical music.
Orleilion grabbed mi with it's unbelievable liveliness of performance. It clear for me that Marty Hicks, Australian composer who is based in Tokyo, invested strong emotional charge into his splatted piano compositions that feels even more alive with subtle tuning shift, pedals and hammers sounds that adding organically to the deep dreamy pads with slight tape or vinyl texture as I perceive it. Piano composition very minimalistic but you can defensibly can tell that it came out of high professionalism in composition and performance. I believe that this album along with his other works perfectly suits with creative process. it could give a great charge to painting or writing thanks to its poetic mood.
Marty Hicks graduated jazz improvisation course at The University of Melbourne and currently lectures in the Music Design faculty at Senzoku Gakuen School of Music.
https://chiheihatakeyama.bandcamp.com/album/olreilion
http://www.martyhicks.com