For Nico Georis, music is a lot like nature: you may actively confront it, or just let yourself channel it. Music Belongs To The Universe, his latest offering, to be released April 4th on Leaving Records, is a searching collection of improvisatory, open-ended piano and keyboard experimentation. Threading the line between pastoral melody and desert minimalism, it rings out and warbles, crafting sounds as spacious as the landscapes from which it was conjured.
Recorded between 2021 and 2023, Music Belongs To The Universe is the latest foray in a search for music as crystalline as the desert skies that Georis began in 2020, when he first moved out to a remote town outside of Death Valley. Here, he restored what became his studio, Granny’s Dancehall, communing with the elements on 2023’s Cloud Suites and 2022’s Desert Mirror which, along with Music Belongs To The Universe, present as a triptych of desert meditations.
