City Jungle Mischa Blanos

• 1 Blanos: Silicon Road 04:36
• 2 Blanos: Tiptoe 03:25
• 3 Blanos: Audition at 9 03:42
• 4 Blanos: City Jungle 05:32
• 5 Blanos: Fluorescence 03:05
• 6 Blanos: Crystal 04:57
• 7 Blanos: Innervision 04:04
• 8 Blanos: Steppe 03:57
• 9 Blanos: The Aerie 05:53
• 10 Blanos: On Cue 03:45
• Total Runtime 42:56

Info for City Jungle

“The city is an untamed beast, and we are creating it one cell at a time” (Mischa Blanos)

Attuning between two music worlds, clubbing and concert halls, Mischa Blanos is set to instill his own view on the well sought-after alliance between classical and electronic music.

Renowned as an exhilarating solo live performer, Mischa Blanos makes the piano his own on his second album “City Jungle”, using it as rhythmic element, organic groove or drowned in noise, perfectly interplaying with free flowing, polyrhythmic percussion and morphing synths, to create his own unique musical force.

From his early education through the release of two EPs, 'Second Nature´ (2018) and ‘Indoors´ (2019), to the creation of City Jungle, Blanos has lived in various cities around the world and travelled through many others. Each city held "a unique atmosphere and pressure" as Blanos describes it, “each of them with new rules to follow and different rhythms to attune to.”

Sometimes traveling alone, Mischa Blanos was able to dissolve into the crowd - to be an outsider exploring the depths of the huge, pulsing city organism. Often he was traveling with fellow countrymen Cristi Cons and Vlad Caia, performing as one third of the influential ‘Ro-minimal’ techno outfit Amorf, bringing his unique groove and musicality to their live shows at the world’s most famous clubs such as Fabric, Rex Club, The Block, Gazgolder and festivals such as ADE, Caprice and Sunwaves. Taking in new musical and social influences, a new part of the artist within Blanos was growing: the need not just to perform on the piano, but to finally make it his own.

We travel with Blanos from interconnectivity, globalism, humanity - all the way to isolation, reflection, emptiness and bliss. City Jungle is an extensive exploration of all aspects of the modern age, but it is also a very personal one, conceived because the artist was forced to stand still and come face to face with himself. The result is, as always with Blanos, truly unique.

Mischa Blanos
Attuning between two music worlds, clubbing and concert halls, Mischa Blanos is set to instill his own view on the well sought-after alliance between classical and electronic music.

With Romanian and Russian roots, Mischa Blanos took a sinuous way to art. Trained in classical piano from the age of seven with a long list of classical music awards, he was meant to have a good future career in classical music, when he put a heavy brake and left it all for his love to electronic music. The piano never left his mind and fingers though, using it in pure acoustic mixed with morphed live sampling or shifting to the electronic family of keyboards and synths.

Back and forth between standing and sitting venues, you may find him performing in clubs, with his solo project of Live Electronics, creating a rich techno atmosphere with classical music hints lurking in the back of your mind. Or part of "Amorf", a three minded project that hit the club scene with their minimal house & techno vibes. From the world's most famous clubs like Fabric, Rex Club, The Block, Gazgolder and festivals like ADE, Caprice or Sunwaves, Amorf makes an edgy clubbing presence with their showcases.

But the blend between these two apparently distant worlds truly stands out in his Acoustic Electronic project, where sounds are going through analogue and digital editing, an interplay between classical piano, synths and software, where clubs and concert halls come into being. He calls this genre Neoclassical/Acoustic Electronic. From this intersection his debut EP "Second Nature", under the French imprint Infiné, was born in 2018.

With a composer's mind and a performer's soul, Mischa Blanos reveals a tremendous power that emanates in those artists acting in one-person performances.

This album contains no booklet.