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Official Trailer ✅: "Mirrors & Echoes" feat. Aïda Lahlou
Montag, 26. Januar 2026 · 2 min
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🎬 OFFICIAL TRAILER Season 6, Episode 10 Mirrors and Echoes — Ravel, Resonance, and Reframing Tradition
What happens when Ravel’s Miroirs becomes the center of a much larger listening journey? In this episode of The Piano Pod, I sit down with Aïda Lahlou (thepianopod.substack.com/p/meet-our-guest-aida…)— UK-based, award-winning pianist and multidisciplinary artist — for an in-depth conversation on her debut album Mirrors and Echoes and the ideas shaping her work today.
At the heart of our discussion is Ravel: how Miroirs functions not as a self-contained cycle, but as a reflective axis — opening pathways to sound worlds across cultures, traditions, and time.
We talk about programming as experience, sound as landscape, and why curiosity and risk are essential tools for artists working outside inherited models of success. This is a conversation about listening deeply, building artistic agency, and reframing tradition without abandoning it.
▶️ Join the premiere on Tuesday, January 27 at pm ET
• 🎥 Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/bFeSehfSUck?si=oCYgW6ciVkkf1N-u
• 🎧 Audio episode drops simultaneously rss.com/podcasts/the-piano-pod
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The basis for my artistry is really my humanity first. I would say whatever I want to achieve as a human comes first. And then my art, the fact that I happen to be a pianist and that I've got this technique on this instrument or I've got this voice that I can use on the stage and so on. That's just a vehicle to try and achieve those things. I'm really attracted to both the meaning behind the pieces. How do we translate an inert piece of musical notation into something that has meaning for real living humans with a beating heart? Impact is something I should chase a lot more than recognition. I wish...
more musicians fly with their ideas and actually make something that they own and that they can, you know, move the needle in a way that benefits artists and benefits our industry in real terms rather than benefits institutions. For our upcoming episode, Mirrors and Echoes, I invited Aida Lalu, UK -based award -winning pianist and multidisciplinary artist, to reflect on her debut album and the ideas shaping her work today, sound, risk, creativity, and artistic agency. Join us tomorrow, January 27th at 8 p .m. Eastern Time on our YouTube channel for the video premiere. The audio episode will be available simultaneously wherever you listen to podcasts. See you tomorrow.
