Tom Rogerson has been teasing his upcoming solo album, Retreat to Bliss, since its announcement in January with two singles, the celestial ‘Chant’ and the poignant and sublime ‘Oath’. With the album release looming, the staggeringly talented composer and pianist is offering up a final taste from the album in the shape of new single ‘Toumani’, a gentle and emotive song inspired by Malian Kora player Toumani Diabaté. Listen to it below and grab the album when it’s out on March 25th through Western Vinyl.

Tom Rogerson‘s much anticipated solo album, Retreat to Bliss, will see the light of day in just over a month. Following the poignant and sublime first single, ‘Oath’, the staggeringly talented British composer and pianist has shared a new celestial track from his forthcoming album called ‘Chant’. Speaking about the track, Rogerson remarks:

“With this song, I’d made a conscious decision to write as minimally and simply as I could, after years of making lots of loud and complicated music. This was the first song with words I wrote, in an effort to express a lot of things that had been on my mind for some time but had lain unexplored. I deliberately left myself nowhere to hide, and for that reason I didn’t expect to record it, or release it, until I started performing it live in the middle of long improvised piano sets, where it seemed to make sense.”

Listen to ‘Oath’ below.

Retreat to Bliss is out on March 25th through Western Vinyl.

A longtime favourite of ours, Tom Rogerson released in 2017 one of our Album Picks of the Year, Finding Shore, a record done in collaboration with Brian Eno. Four years on, the staggeringly talented British composer and pianist has announced his much anticipated solo album. Entitled Retreat to Bliss, the record was written in his native Suffolk and follows and reflects a number of affecting changes in his life. He explains:

“The last few years have brought some struggle, some joy, and a lot of change. My response has been to retreat to what I trust the most: the piano, my voice, and the landscape I grew up in. That’s how the album got its title, and how I came to be ready finally to release a solo record.”

Ahead of the album’s release on March 25th through Western Vinyl, Rogerson is enticing us with ‘Oath’, the first poignant and sublime single. Rogerson offered some insight into it:

“I was in the middle of a few months where lots of big life events were happening and I wrote lots of things very quickly, having spent years struggling to do anything at all. It was the first sustained period of working by myself with no one else to bounce ideas off, and I instinctively started singing a bit more seriously – I even started using a vocal mic! The whole thing including lyrics was new for me but felt like a necessary response to the mood I was in.”

Now wrap your ears around ‘Oath’.