{"id":3138228,"date":"2025-08-20T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=3138228"},"modified":"2025-09-10T17:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:22:12","slug":"preorder-aleksandra-ionowa-improvisations-on-the-grand-piano-colour","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/product\/preorder-aleksandra-ionowa-improvisations-on-the-grand-piano-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-order: Aleksandra Ionowa &#8211; Improvisations on the Grand Piano COLOUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edition of 250 pressed on 180g vinyl. Lacquer cut by Timmion.<br \/>\nBooklet with artworks by Aleksandra Ionowa and essay by Samuli Huttunen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\">\r\n\r\nAleksandra Ionowa (1899\u20131980) was a Finnish-Russian artist, mystic, and largely self-taught pianist whose music feels like a transmission from another realm.\r\n\r\nHer artistic life began in 1946, after what she described as a mystical experience of heavenly union\u2014\u201cHeaven was in me, I was in heaven.\u201d In its wake, she began to draw obsessively, eventually creating thousands of visionary works that she considered guided by the Theosophical Masters. The same experience also led her to start improvising on the piano, shaping music that, for its time, was unusually free and abstract.\r\n\r\nRecorded on a November day in 1978, when Aleksandra Ionowa was 79 years old, Improvisations on the Grand Piano is a meditative and deeply intuitive album, shaped more by timbre and tone than by melody. Her shimmering playing unfolds like flashes of light through leaves, or sunbeams playing on rippling water: a music of transience and transformation, yet carrying a timeless stillness at its core. To today\u2019s listener, her pentatonic piano stylings might feel kindred to the spiritual intimacy of artists like Laraaji and Emahoy Tsegu\u00e9-Maryam Gu\u00e8brou, while remaining wholly her own.\r\n\r\nOriginally self-released on vinyl and cassette, the album is<span class=\"bcTruncateMore\">\u00a0reissued for the first time in co-operation with Ultra\u00e4\u00e4ni Records and Puro Recordings. This new edition is available on standard black 180g vinyl and a limited splatter-colored 180g version. The release also includes additional artwork and a newly commissioned essay by Samuli Huttunen, offering historical and spiritual context for her work.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\">\r\n\r\nOut 26.9.2025 on Puro Recordings &amp; Ultra\u00e4\u00e4ni Records.\r\n\r\nGrand Piano &amp; Cover Artwork \u2013 Aleksandra Ionowa\r\n\r\nRecorded by Robi De Godzinsky\r\nAudio Restoration &amp; Mastering by Jussi Suonikko and Teemu Into\r\nLacquer Cut by Timmion Cutting\r\nPhotography by Asko Rys\u00e4\r\nLayout by Teemu Into\r\nLiner Notes by Samuli Huttunen\r\nTranslations by Viljami Hukka\r\n\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":3138229,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[15],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3138228","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-uncategorized","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"taxable","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"mb":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3138228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3138229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3138228"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3138228"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digelius.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3138228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}