Bleep

Finders Keepers Records hit another Suzanne Ciani jackpot here in the form of Music For Denali. These tracks date from 1973, an extremely interesting point in Ciani’s career in that she was just beginning to make a name for herself as a synthesizer composer of some repute yet also still had a great affinity for her first musical love of the piano. Those two strains of her practice combine to delightful effect on these tracks, which were originally commissioned for a documentary about the first successful ski descent of Alaska's imposing mount Denali. At certain points the music is as austere and hostile as the mountain itself, at others Ciani’s effervescent Buchla programming and keyboard work invoke Laurie Spiegel and Neu!.