This album has something to surprise. First of all, the name is misleading: the homophonic shift does not erase the resonance associated with Honky Tonk, which itself evokes a saloon’s rickety piano that a movie-villain would silence with his six-shooter. The music of this first album by T\u00f6nky H\u00f6nk, a keyboard duo from Winnipeg, has absolutely nothing to do with the music usually played there. The two members of this piano duo, Madeline Hildebrand and Everett Hopfner, had the idea to propel this rather classic instrumental format (the piano duo) into new horizons, significantly broadening the concept of “piano.” Indeed, and alternately according to the demands of the music, the two performers play on a pair of Fender Rhodes, a prepared piano facing a toy piano, or a classical piano in front of a Fender Rhodes. The result is enchanting and original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Twinlings<\/em> by Adrian Knight, for two Fender Rhodes, offers soothing, contemplative sounds, straddling a neoclassical minimalism (but more abstract, harmonically) and an ethereal universe. The aura of mystery and dreaminess is accentuated by the instrument’s vibrant resonance, more commonly associated with jazz and rock (like The Doors).<\/p>\n\n\n\n