Bill Wells & Stefan Schneider's lyrics & chords

Actually what Bill Wells and Stefan Schneider are doing on their new album Pianotapes is chamber music. Wells plays fragile scales on the Bechstein grand piano, while Schneider records them on two old reel-to-reel tape machines and plays the recordings back at altered speeds. This real-time recording process is reflected in Well's piano playing, who replies with modulation and key changes, building the sounds and ideas into his improvisation, playing with them and developing them. Bill Wells is the Nestor of the Glasgow indie scene. The bassist...read more