We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Shimmer

by Kevin Keller

/
  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    First pressing of 165 copies on 150g black vinyl in poly-lined sleeves, shrink wrapped, glossy cover.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Shimmer via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 1 day
    edition of 165 

      $14 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Features beautiful album artwork in Digipack design, including full album credits. Shrink wrapped.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Shimmer via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 1 day
    edition of 200 

      $10 USD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $7 USD  or more

     

  • Poster/Print

    Gorgeous cover art by Gremlin. Looks great in a frame on your wall
    ships out within 1 day
    edition of 50 

      $5 USD or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 19 Kevin Keller releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Evensong, ambient chamber music, Shimmer, The Front Porch of Heaven, Ice Worlds, Corridors - Music for Modern Dance Vol. 3, Intermezzo (Platinum Edition), La Strada, and 11 more. , and , .

    Excludes supporter-only releases.

    Purchasable with gift card

      $113.60 USD or more (20% OFF)

     

1.
Orchards 03:51
2.
Inverness 06:07
3.
Shimmer 09:53
4.
Bridges 03:12
5.
Ithaca 05:22
6.
Riverbend 08:47
7.
Delta 04:21

about

Over the course of his quarter-century career, composer Kevin Keller has been known to switch things up from album to album, but this year he took things a step further. In order to challenge himself and bring fresh ideas to his music, he used social media to crowdsource an entire album in 28 days. "I started with no narrative concept, no title, no idea really of what this music would be," Keller explains. Breaking the patterns of his previous twelve albums, he asked his fans for directions and ideas, and then designed new sounds to guide his studio improvisations. The result of this experiment is Shimmer, his first album to be released on both CD and vinyl.

Shimmer contains some of Keller’s most propulsive tracks, bubbling with analog beats while also deploying a multitude of motifs that mesh like clockwork. The opening “Orchards” demonstrates this style immediately with a piano intro that could be Steve Reich remixed for the dance floor. In contrast, “Bridges” recalls the timeless sound of Cluster. The more meditative moments, such as “Ithaca”, “Inverness”, and the closing “Delta,” show off his compositional knack for beautiful melodies and lush textures. The title track and its sister track “Riverbend” combine all of these streams and, like all Keller’s music, evolve their sound, never standing still even when they seem to float weightlessly.

credits

released September 17, 2021

Recorded in February 2021 at Mariner's Gate Studio, NYC
Mastered by Chris Frasco in Nashville, TN

Cover photo by Gremlin

Instruments: Roland FP-3, 8dio Studio Upright, Moog Grandmother, Roland Juno-106, Serum, Omnisphere, Roland CR-78, Spitfire Audio London Contemporary Orchestra, Quantum Leap, Fender Telecaster

Special thanks to Deborah Slater, John Licwinko, Bart Petterle, Dan Leafe, Jeff Menager, Dianna Kessler, Josh French, Kyla Barkin, Gene and Kathy Keller, Steve Holtje, Mark Steensland, and Marta Karamuz for their invaluable input during the RPM Challenge

Album Supporters: Gene and Kathy Keller, Derik Stone, Meri Tepper,
Dawn Daehn, Marta Karamuz, John Lloyd, Ben Glovinsky, Joshua French,
Steve Ornish, Orin Kurtz, Garen Horst, Daniel Leafe, Debbie Khumayyis Foltz, Jen Stencel, Ian Jones, Jeff Sloane, Rachel Amov, Mark Steensland, John Bacsa, Kenneth Corrales, Tina Guerra, Eric Johnson, Frederick Key Smith, Dianna Cuatto, Jay Cathcart, Charlie Blasberg, Steve Holtje, Thomas Zarnek, Justin Latham, Brad Grimm, Paul Rafanello, Ray Sullivan, Chad Levy and Amy Marshall, Tomm Roland, Matthew Ragusa, Jeff Menager, Bill Merrill, Meena Cho, Sheryl Smith, Kurt Anderson, and John Licwinko

All music composed by Kevin Keller, except “Delta”, composed by
Kevin Keller and Rayne Kristine (courtesy of Silver Carpet)

All music copyright ©2021 Kevin Keller (BMI). All rights reserved.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Kevin Keller New York, New York

Kevin Keller is an American composer who has worked in the spaces between neo-classical, ambient, and electronic music for over 30 years.

Often combining acoustic piano, strings, and woodwinds with electronic instruments and effects, his style has come to be called “ambient chamber music”.
... more

contact / help

Contact Kevin Keller

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Kevin Keller, you may also like: