Retronyms

»Retronyms« is the third album of the Munich-based composer Carlos Cipa. After 2012’s »The
Monarch and the Viceroy« and »All Your Life You Walk« put a focus on the piano, Cipa
exponentially expands his artistic approach as well as his colour palette on »Retronyms«. The
eight pieces see Cipa bring together his background as a classically trained pianist and
composer with his interest for pop music, jazz and electronic music in all its diverse facets. Each
note on this album is meticulously thought through and yet »Retronyms« radiates with visceral
liveliness.
Cipa invited musicians from vastly different backgrounds for the recording of »Retronyms« and
combined highly modern digital studio technology with analogue hardware, blended brasses
and woodwinds or electric guitar with piano sounds and more. Cipa himself plays piano and a
variety of keyboard instruments like the celesta or the... more
credits
released August 23, 2019
Composed, Arranged, Performed, Recorded and Produced By Carlos Cipa
Co-produced By Martin Brugger
Mastered By Christoph Stickel
Mixed By Martyn Heyne
Artwork & Design By Daily Dialogue
Photography By Johannes Brugger