O L R E I L I O N

released February 28 2019 on Bullflat 3.8 (Japan)・CD, Digital
CDアルバム・2019年2月28日発売・レーベル：Bullflat 3.8（日本）

Beginning with the sound of a single chord reverberating through silence, Olreilion unfolds as a tapestry of delicate piano phrases, warm synths, blankets of soft noise, and organic soundscapes. 
Recorded on gently humming tape, the album presents a slow journey through memory and the inner self, pausing often to revel in the scenery. 
Somewhere within the confines of the electronic devices heard throughout the work there is a sense of physicality, lending visceral presence to an otherwise artificial sound. 

“Surrounded by vast and vaporous brush strokes, the piano, muted and hushed, sings softly and faint, with melodies, accents and notes, with frail and delicate minimalism, that is at once guarded and vulnerable…a deep dive into reductionist pianism and isolationist ambience” - Headphone Commute
*Featured on Headphone Commute’s Best of 2019*

“A soothing blanket of gentle tape hiss, faint drones & becalmed synthwork with the gentlest of piano phrases to pacifying ambient effect” - The Slow Music Movement

“Fluttering piano lines like waves of tone that peak and crest, recede and gather…static surrounds these subtle movements that define themselves in their absence, suspended in air as if held up by gossamer thread.” - Tome to the Weather Machine

壊れかけたピアノの音を軸に、テープやノイズなどのアナログ要素を活用しながら、シンセサイザーで縫われる織物のような暖かいサウンドを奏でる。 
何処か切なく、シネマティックな音楽の背後に、水、ススキ、心臓などの有機的な音楽が響く。 
いつしか書かれた古い物語を思わせるアンビエント作品。 

※Also available on Chihei Hatakeyama’s label White Paddy Mountain.

all tracks written & performed by marty hicks
mastered by chihei hatakeyama
photography & design by ryo fujimoto (www.ryofujimoto.net)
special thanks to michiru aoyama

T H E E F F O R T L E S S Q U I E T

released November 2, 2020・Digital
デジタルアルバム・2020/11/2発売

A collection of pieces born from periods of waiting, episodes of uncertainty, and moments of warmth.
This 6-track EP-length work brings together fragments of leftover sounds - old piano recordings, unused tape loops, timestretched strings - rediscovered during periods of isolation, and revisited from a place of stillness and quietude.
切ないピアノの旋律に、緩やかなテープループや温かみに包まれたシンセサイザーの音が重なるアンビエント作品。
忘れかけていた過去から響いてきた音の記憶、どことなく懐かしい情緒を浴びさせる、時空無きの音楽的水彩画。

All tracks written and performed by Marty Hicks
Tracks 3 and 6 recorded by Alexander Beck, March 2015
Mastered by Joe Talia

T H E E L I A P A S S A G E S

released May 3 2019 on Rural Sounds (Norway)・Tape, Digital
カセットテープミニアルバム・2019/5/3 発売
レーベル：Rural Sounds（ノールウェー）

Narrated by strings of plucked piano phrases that come and go like afterthoughts, The Elia Passages is either the retelling of a culture that has yet to exist, or the remembrances of one that may never have existed.

The gently wavering carpets of synth conjure up images of houses overrun by greenery, faded fabric, smoke billowing into the night. The muffled sound of bonfires, quiet storms, and running water lend a sense of physical presence to the music, as one might vaguely remember the sound of a place a specific memory is tied to - but the tales told in the Elia Passages, like most myths, exist outside of time: beyond the sonic environment they present, the space they occupy is that of the imagination.

Written and produced by Marty Hicks
Mastered by Richard Alfaro
Artwork by Lela Amparo

M   O   O   N   C   A   L   F

released September 11 2013・CD, Digital
CDアルバム・2013年11月発売

'Mooncalf' is a 45-minute work for piano and voice. A treatise on the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and fragility, the work draws on a multitude of influences spanning literature, film and history. 

Revelling in the moments in music that would normally be discreetly shifted aside - such as audible breaths, extraneous noises, cracks in the voice, and the rustling of material and machine inside the piano - 'Mooncalf' heralds these as sounds sharing the same value and beauty as the notes that are a product of them, celebrating the inescapable humanity, and inherent imperfection, in making music. 

“I feel like [Marty] is a younger, better version of me - assuming that is complimentary […] his 2013 album, Mooncalf, is beautiful.”
-Luke Howard

"...totally captivating energy throughout...Darvidis and Hicks create a truly beautiful sound together. Full of subtle surprises, this is creative music with maturity and sophistication well beyond the years of its creators. 
A superb debut album." 
-Andrea Keller

"...a wonderful example of creative, beautiful music-making. No surprise here, for [Marty's] playing has always had a wonderful subtlety to it, as do his compositions. This recording is a fine example of these qualities. Listen." 
-Tony Gould

piano/composition - Marty Hicks        ~       voice - Georgie Darvidis

『ムーンカーフ』はピアノと声による音楽作品である。

人間性、無常性、そして脆弱性などの概念や、文学、映画や歴史などのような様々な分野から影響を受けたこの45分の楽曲群は、スッと聞こえる息、偶発的なノイズ、ひびで染めた歌声などがわざと活用され、人間の不完全さを表現し礼賛しようとするものである。

ピアノ／作曲：マーティ・ヒックス
歌：ジョージー・ダーヴィディス