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Nicole Wakabayashi - Piano / Synth / Vocals / Production
Casey Barth - Production / Engineering
Tess Greenham / Clearlight Mastering - Mastering
An immense thank you to Geo Jordan, Lou Roy, John Snow, Malia Civetz, Lilliana de los Reyes, Anna Schulze, Stefan Hanegraaf, Flora de la Mortiere and Lachlan Mason.
Songs My Mother Taught Me, No. 108 from 114 Songs - Charles Ives, text by Alfred Heyduk
Piano - Nicole Wakabayashi
Vocals - Lou Roy
Bass - John Snow
Production/Engineering - Casey Barth at Arches Studio and Gardens
Mastering - Tess Greenham
Piano / Synthesizer / Production - Nicole Wakabayashi
Production / Engineering - Casey Barth at Arches Highland Park
Saxophone - Patrick Sargent
Mastering - Tess Greenham
It’s been 2 years to the day since moving to London from New York. In those first months of restarting my life across the ocean, I had time to reexamine the intent, the sources, and the habits of my creative focus—noticing where I had nourished certain aspects of it and where other parts had grown stale. It was a weird and unfamiliar time of being lost within myself as I grappled with the daunting task of starting over.
The outline of this improvisation was recorded in October 2024 on my Korg and on a rented upright piano (out-of-tune F# and all). Something about it floating around B minor, the key of quiet melancholy and gentle suffering, felt right. ‘How Long’ became the essence of my own longing for a question to which only I held the answer to.
I think we all are familiar to this deep impatience — continually searching for a feeling or part of ourselves we lost along the way, chasing newness, or longing for the nearness of someone who’s not with us anymore. I hope your longing isn’t for too long.
In collaboration with Porto Piano Festival
Frederick Loewe Theatre, New York
Second Piano: Alexander Kobrin
Colegiata de San Juan Bautista - Gijon, Spain
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