Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1087118 Composed by Andrew Shapiro. 20th Century,Classical,Contemporary,Film/TV,New Age. Score. 5 pages. Airbox Music Publishing #691317. Published by Airbox Music Publishing (A0.1087118). “The 2009 album Numbers, Colors And People (recorded in one day at Philip Glass’s studio) is all instrumental piano with a soft-pedal style that would become Shapiro’s trademark. The album’s standout track Mint Green would go on to define Shapiro's early career. This six-minute jewel in its nature is furtive, an arcing, pacey piano solo which rises and falls delicately, its melody slowly emerging from a Debussy-like haze of almost-hesitancy. No matter how many times it’s heard you have to return to its cascading style. Mint Green’s astonishing success on the Internet (over 14 million plays on Pandora Internet Radio) and as a regular soundtrack on American television belies its origins. In fact, Mint Green was directly inspired by the Cocteau Twins’s track My Truth from their 1993 album Four-Calendar CafeÌ.†—Mark Prendergast, author, The Ambient Century.
