Amanda Bloom is a classical pianist from Australia who has spent seven years creating an album of fractured and astonishing brilliance.
Unconcerned and unconstrained by the whims of pop and unconvinced by convention, her music weaves a tapestry of emotion with rich instrumentation to startle a little more upon every listen.
Amanda’s dramatic classical piano songs lie between the exquisite musings of Tori Amos and the wanderlust of epic-rockers Muse. Drifting from woozy ballads to full on rock, it’s intense and quite unique.
A renaissance of classical melodies, drawn from her roots studying classical piano and singing opera, her music has a sense of depth and drama unheard of in modern pop. As fearlessly epic as her lyrics, the music struts through key and time changes, charting Amanda’s her course across India and the Middle East. It’s fuelled by heart break and her pursuit of history, people and dreams to come.
Self-penned and self-produced, the songs are coloured by rainbows of strings, switching between the open-hearted balladry of ‘Fallacy’, with its tinkering motif and off beat rhythms, through to orchestral splendour of the ‘Rosetta’, an ode to truth inspired by the Rosetta Stone.
Meanwhile, the poignant acoustic solitude of ‘Beautiful Beautiful’ showcases some stunning harmonies, laced with a tempered flute melody in a momentous and spine-chilling lament to wasted to love.
Amanda’s travels have seen her write and perform across the world and the richness of her musi