{"title":"Elliot Galvin","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1991, Elliot Galvin is a London-based British jazz pianist, composer, and collaborator. He plays piano, synthesizer, kalimba, microtonal melodica, accordion, stylophone, and Rhodes. From deconstructing standards to creating his own microtonal melodica, his music is both playful and deadly serious, drawing on a wide range of influences from Keith Jarrett to Igor Stravinsky, György Ligeti, Deerhoof, and the Beatles, as well as the films of David Lynch, the Dada movement, and the literature of James Joyce. Galvin studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance alongside trumpeter and composer Laura Jurd and helped found the Chaos Collective of young musicians, the majority of them Trinity graduates. His main artistic vehicle is the Elliot Galvin Trio. In 2014 the trio won the European Young Jazz Artist of the Year Award in Germany. In 2015 they were nominated for the Parliamentary Jazz Awards Newcomer of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGalvin released his debut album \u003cem\u003eDreamland\u003c\/em\u003e in 2013 on Chaos Collective to rave reviews. In 2016 he released \u003cem\u003ePunch\u003c\/em\u003e on Edition Records with Simon Roth on drums. In 2017 he released \u003cem\u003eWeather\u003c\/em\u003e, a free improvisation duo with drummer Mark Sanders on Babel Label. In 2018 he released \u003cem\u003eThe Influencing Machine\u003c\/em\u003e on Edition Records, inspired by the book of the same name about 18th century figure James Tilly Matthews. In 2019 Galvin released \u003cem\u003eModern Times\u003c\/em\u003e on Edition Records. In 2020 he released \u003cem\u003eLive in Paris, at Fondation Louis Vuitton\u003c\/em\u003e on Edition Records, an entirely improvised solo piano recital. In February 2025 he released \u003cem\u003eThe Ruin\u003c\/em\u003e on Gearbox Records, his most personal album to date. Named after a ninth century Anglo-Saxon poem about the former glory of an unnamed ruined city, it was inspired by living in England, the bleak landscape of where he grew up, and a kind of self-portrait reflecting how we all live amongst the ruins of our past selves both collectively and individually. The album featured Ruth Goller on bass and voice, Sebastian Rochford on drums, the Ligeti Quartet, and Shabaka Hutchings on flutes. He is a key member of Mercury-nominated Dinosaur led by Laura Jurd and a member of Shabaka's European touring band. He collaborates with Emma-Jean Thackray, Norwegian saxophonist Marius Neset, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"elliot-galvin-the-ruin-2025-gearbox-records-vinyl-lp","title":"Elliot Galvin - The Ruin (2025 Gearbox Records Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElliot Galvin - \u003cem\u003eThe Ruin\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 2025 Gearbox Records (GB4005)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElliot Galvin started building this album from a specific source: iPhone recordings of improvisations he had played on his first piano, a childhood instrument bought with money left by his late grandfather. Those recordings became the material from which everything else on the record was constructed — the strings, the bass, the drums, the electronics, the flute. The album takes its title from \"The Ruin,\" an Old English poem from the 9th century about the former glory of an unnamed city reduced to rubble. Galvin used it as a frame for something more personal: a response to contemporary England, to the landscape around the Medway towns where he grew up, and to the idea that all of us move through the ruins of previous selves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe structure is cyclical. The record opens with solo piano and closes with solo piano, the final track ending with a reversed recording of the opener played forwards. Between those poles, the ensemble assembles gradually and crumbles away again. Ruth Goller plays bass and voice on six tracks; Sebastian Rochford plays drums; the Ligeti Quartet — Freya Goldmark, Patrick Dawkins, Richard Jones and Val Welbanks — plays strings on five tracks. Shabaka Hutchings plays bamboo flute on \"Gold Bright\" (A4) and shakuhachi on \"High and Wide\" (B1). \"Gold Bright\" is the one track where the whole ensemble plays together — Hutchings recorded his bamboo flute solo in a single take without hearing the music beforehand. The record was co-produced by Rochford and recorded and mixed by Sonny Johns. Mastered by Caspar Sutton-Jones.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gearbox Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43425900101691,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/a2996558641_10.jpg?v=1776336100"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/elliot-galvin.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}