PROGRAMMA

The Lumineers co-founder, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jeremiah Fraites chose a deceptively simple title for his stunning solo debut, Piano Piano. On the surface, it’s a succinct description of the album (due out via Dualtone Records (an Entertainment One Company) in the U.S. and Canada and Mercury KX for the rest of the world): a piano-centric collection of lovely, heartfelt instrumental songs. There’s also something suggestive in taking the
doubled word in musical terms, meaning “soft”–evocative of the music’s tender lyricism and rapturous vulnerability. But translated from Italian, Piano Piano also means “step by step,” a phrase that concisely captures the journey that Fraites has taken to realize this long-held dream.