Kelly Moran tapped the great Loraine James and her percussionist colleague Fyn Dobson to do a remix of the track “Superhuman,” off Moran’s recent album, Moves in the Field. The title of the track references how Moran’s instrument on the recording is a Yamaha Disklavier, a tool that allows her to compose and perform music that would be, in effect, impossible for an unaided human to accomplish on their own. In the able hands of James and Dobson, the source material is muffled, its intricacies heard as if through glass, and that sonic shape is improvised upon with drums and synthesized tones, individual bits of the piano occasionally peeking out.
And here’s the original track for comparison’s sake:
