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Neo-Romance

To mark the release of Néo-Romance, STRÉLISKI and XXIM/Sony scheduled a series of celebrations and media appearances on both sides of the Atlantic.  On 21st of March, following on German breakfast television, STRÉLISKI headed to Paris - a city she feels a particular connection with given the years she spent there as a child - where she hosted an evening of music at the Bibliothèque Musicale La Grange-Fleuret. And on the 28th of March, she traveled to New York City for another special event at Maison Close, where she celebrated Néo-Romance with friends and local media.

Néo-Romance marks a departure for STRÉLISKI in several ways, not just in terms of subject matter. Composing and recording in Europe for the first time, she also worked with several new musicians and collaborators - including, for the first time, a string trio; three members from the acclaimed Karski Quartet - and explored her family’s past. The songs were written mainly in Rotterdam, where Stréliski moved to be with her partner. And in doing so, she discovered some surprising – and prescient – facts about her family history, their Polish Jewish origins, and her ancestors’ penchant for art and creativity.

Long associated with the neo-classical movement, STRÉLISKI also wanted to distance herself from a tag that doesn’t accurately reflect her work. Inspired by the idea of encapsulating and expressing emotions through art, and the Romantics’ love of individual expression over the restraints of tradition, she set out to follow her instinct. “I’m much more of a romantic in the sense that I express my own inner world to make sense of the wider world,” she says. “So, the thread I’m pulling on here is the idea of neo-romance, in a musical way but also as a form of contemplation.” 

Alexandra Streliski:

Inscape

Eight years after her first self-released, critically-acclaimed Pianoscope ; an album imbued with both melancholy and light (The Telegraph UK), Alexandra Stréliski is thrilled to be unveiling her raw and sincere sophomore album titled INSCAPE, set to be released on October 5th via Secret City Records. 

Recorded in the Fall of 2017 at Studio PM in Montreal, INSCAPE is the work of an artist unconcerned with conventions, whose approach of neoclassicism is resolutely current. Produced by Alexandra Stréliski herself and Maxime Navert (who also co-produced Pianoscope), the attempt was to fill a certain emotional emptiness, a creative urge that commits to taking the listener back to a form of lost sincerity. "A piano, on its own, is a very vulnerable thing, and I want to share this moment with the listener," explains Alexandra. 

Stréliski has been in the spotlight this Summer following an incredible artistic collaboration with Jean-Marc Vallée for his latest HBO miniseries Sharp Objects, starring Amy Adams. Alexandra was included in the process of using her music and tailored pieces were requested from the pianist. In the end, Alexandra's pieces from both her previous album Pianoscope and her new release INSCAPE are heard multiple times in six of the eight episodes, including the crucial scene of the finale, which aired last August 26th. Alexandra also wrote the theme for the third episode and recorded a Bach Concerto for Sharp Objects which was released last July.  Since then, her single Plus tôt is now over 2 million streams online.

One of the rare women in the neoclassical world, Alexandra Stréliski creates music that enthralls listeners, filling their minds with rich, cinematic images. An artist of Polish Jewish origin who grew up between Paris and Montreal, she made her debut with the 2010 album Pianoscope. The aforementioned support of Jean-Marc Vallée, which allowed Stréliski's music to be heard during the Oscars ceremony in 2014, brought her streaming numbers up to nearly 15 million and saw her play sold-out concerts at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in recent years. The Telegraph (UK) praised her debut album as "distinguishable by its simplicity, its sensitivity and softness".