Das Jahr 2020, by Molly McCann

Das Jahr 2020

by Molly McCann

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Larry Looney There's a palpable sense of innocence about this album, as if she's playing just for you...or for herself, beautiful and quiet, straight from the heart. Favorite track: May.

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	1.	January 03:55
	2.	February 04:30
	3.	March 08:51
	4.	April 05:00
	5.	May 03:44
	6.	June 07:10
	7.	July 04:15
	8.	August 07:14
	9.	September 04:49
	10.	October 05:59
	11.	November 07:37
	12.	December 07:23
	13.	Postlude 02:24

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Das Jahr 2020 is the first published recording of Molly McCann, my older sister of two-and-a-half years. After encouraging my sister to record her piano playing for years, she embarked on her first recording project with Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Das Jahr (“The Year”, 1841), a groundbreaking cycle of twelve thematically and harmonically interlocked character pieces depicting the twelve months of the year. Putting aside her usual toil for perfection, Molly embraced a larger conceptual experience, both personal and musical in nature: to learn and perform each piece of the cycle in the corresponding calendar month, knowing the accelerated timeline would push her outside of her comfort zone and require a renewed approach to and understanding of time. With a creaky, slightly out-of-tune upright piano and her cellphone’s built-in microphone, the monthly self-recordings began in January of 2020.
Sean McCann
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“And so we try to ornament and prettify our lives—that is the advantage of artists, that they can strew such beautifications about, for those nearby to take an interest in.”
--Fanny Hensel on composing Das Jahr,
Letter to August Elsasser, Nov. 11, 1841

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released August 6, 2021

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Founded in 2012 by Sean McCann.
Focusing on abstract and beautiful music.
Sometimes just one of those things and sometimes both of those things.

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