Fink Celesta

Celesta is a suite of a dozen quietly transcendent, gem-like celesta solos by noted Los Angeles composer Michael Jon Fink, who also performs them. As each piece unfolds, revealing itself through elegantly fashioned variation, the listener is drawn into a highly nuanced, lyrical sound world. Taken as a whole, the collection creates its own graceful musical arc, and is certainly among the largest statements ever composed for the celesta alone. The album was recorded on one of Los Angeles s finest five-octave Schiedmayer celestas. Fink s usually quiet, lyrical music has been described by the Los Angeles Times as lustrous, metaphysically tinged and unapologetically tranquil. LA Weekly has written that his music is of ethereal simplicity . . . he has shaped and refined his spare style greatly it is distinctly his own.