The Water Room, the final track on Australian pianist and composer Amy Rita’s new and second EP, takes its inspiration from a haunting photograph by Antonio Monfreda of a flooded room in Venice. It’s a beautiful way to end this short recital, its flowing arpeggios, simple, floating melody and persistent, half-submerged middle voicings reaching towards a lighter, thinner, more delicate texture evoking reflections.

Indeed, at just under 15 minutes in length, Dusk is a beautiful way to end your day as you watch it turn to night.

Fans of Rita’s debut EP The Walk Home, and with her concerts, will be familiar with her improvisatory, ambient classical style, drawing on extra-musical elements such as films, photographs and nature. The five pieces here, composed over the last two years, draw us back into the same musical world where memories, emotions and the imagination are given free reign.

The recital’s direct, spontaneous feel is also helped by the fact it was recorded on a Kawai grand in just one afternoon. The EP, as Rita writes, “aims to transport the listener through each piece” with each track “expressing its own unique story.”

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