Robin Hatch - Robin Hatch review | John Lewis's contemporary album of the month

The Guardian 80

(Self-released)
For her third album this year, the Canadian composer continues to defy genres by creating a bold new grammar for piano

Robin Hatch is a Canadian pianist and composer who has managed to release not one but three albums in 2019. In March, she gave us Works for Solo Piano, a series of ruminative, semi-improvised themes, pitched somewhere between Keith Jarrett and Conlon Nancarrow. In September came Hatch, an icily beautiful and occasionally terrifying piece of proggy electronica, recorded live in a single take on assorted antique analogue synthesisers and a microtonal keyboard.

Now comes the eponymous Robin Hatch, a series of solo piano miniatures.