...the music is exceptional and consistently engaging. A wonderful recording.
Pianist & composer Andrew Moorhead offers a strikingly personal suite of etudes. Music born of inquiry, discipline, and risk, these pieces explore phased time signatures, interlocking melodic cycles, and the elusive space between muscle memory and pure spontaneity. Moorhead's long pursuit of "total liberation" at the piano culminates here in a personal language where skeletal gestures bloom into fluid counterpoint. The result is music that feels at once architectural and airborne. Finding the perfect bandmates in the towering bassist François Moutin, and one of the most idiosyncratic drummers in jazz, Ari Hoenig, their deep rapport generates a kinetic, almost telepathic interplay. Vividly balancing intellect and intuition, Mirage stands as a bold trio statement and a compelling new chapter in Moorhead's evolving voice.
"I thought I'd heard just about every approach to the piano, then Andrew Moorhead's new album came along...it's a great reminder that true originality is still out there." Scott Kinsey
Track Listing:
1 Faster Etude 4:16
2 Intro Tune 8:54
3 Intervals 5:59
4 Phased Voices 7:11
5 Mirage 8:37
6 Slower Etude 4:31
7 Boogie 3:49
Compositions by Andrew Moorhead
Performers:
Andrew Moorhead - piano
François Moutin - bass
Ari Hoenig - drums
Production Info:
Produced by Andrew Moorhead
Recorded & mixed by David Stoller at The Samurai Hotel, Astoria, NY
Recorded on 08/28/2025
Mastered by Scott Kinsey at Wishbone Studio, Encino, CA
Cover design & layout by John Bishop
Reviews of Mirage
Paris Move (Thierry De Clemensat)
5 STARS
Daybreak in Austin starts the same way for me: a hot cup of coffee, headphones on, and the simple act of listening. That first sip burns a little. A curl of milk disappears into the dark. Piano notes trickle in, just enough to remind me I'm awake. If I'm going to really listen, to notice every shift and detail, this is what it takes. Clo ...
Jazz Weekly (George W. Harris)
Pianist Andrew Moorhead explores a panoply of colors on this wide ranging collection of his own tunes with Francois Moutin/b and Ari Hoenig/dr. Each song has its own concept feel and language, with raindrops dropping on the window in Chopinesque fashion on the probing "Faster Etude" to some dark and prismatic reflections on the angular "Slower Etud ...
