Śmierć Miasta is a memoir by Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman, describing life in occupied Warsaw during World War Two. After being forced with his family to live in the Warsaw Ghetto, Szpilman manages to avoid deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp, and from his hiding places around the city witnesses the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. He survives in the ruined city with the help of friends and strangers, including Wilm Hosenfeld, a German army captain who admires his piano playing.
Out of print for several years, the rich, jazzy, piano-driven “Brown Loop” by Duval Timothy gets the reissue treatment. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 18, 2020
The latest from multi-instrumentalist Christine Ott alternates ghostly piano compositions with lush & hovering synth-driven songs. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 11, 2021