AMMA
an album by Emanuel Ayvas
AMMA is an album written and performed by Emanuel Ayvas. It is comprised of 8 ambient improvisations performed live in one sitting on digital piano and analog synthesizer. The entire album was fully recorded in about 3 hours at Emanuel’s home studio in Brooklyn NY in the Summer of 2022. AMMA marks a departure for Ayvas, a classically trained pianist, who is best known for his work as the creative force behind Brooklyn chamber pop mainstays Emanuel and the Fear, synth psych-rock band Pale Ramon, and experimental noise outfit Ayvas and Baller.This album will be Emanuel’s third official release as a solo artist. He also just completed a project releasing a single every week over the last year (55 consecutive weekly singles in total) for which there’s a video diary of each week on his YouTube page.AMMA
8 improvisations on digital piano and analog synthesizer.Performed live in Brooklyn, NY in the autumn of 2022
Emanuel Ayvas is a composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. His music spans various styles and genres — from chamber pop with his band Emanuel and the Fear, synth psych-rock with his band Pale Ramon, and experimental noise music with his group Ayvas and Baller. In October of 2021, Ayvas started a project releasing a new single every week for a year that reached completion this fall with 55 new singles. As the last singles were coming out, he and Historical Fiction Records officially released ‘Via Romana,’ an album of solo piano pieces, which was his second official release as a solo artist. His first, ‘Talk About The Weather Makes Me Happy’ was released in the spring of 2022.Praise for Emanuel’s work:“Enough orchestral synthesis to make ELO blush.” -The Guardian“..It seems as if every member of the Brooklyn-based musical collective comes from a different background, be it jazz, folk, contemporary classical, or even heavy metal. So credit curly-haired frontman Emanuel Ayvas for uniting the troupe under the righteous banner of symphonic rock — and credit every single member of the eclectic collective for agreeing to join forces and create music that immediately registers as ambitious.” – Consequence of Sound“..The Janus Mirror” sounds just as mind-blowing as the stories Emanuel Ayvas tells. It was not for nothing that Ayvas studied composition. He mixes violins, cello, piano and flutes into the usual band, always looking for the big sound.” – Rolling Stone“Remember when indie rock was about stripping down and freaking out? [Emanuel and the Fear] don’t. Fortunately, they’ve got tunes, which always helps the sugar go down.” – Village Voice