Dustin O'Halloran

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A self-taught pianist from the age of 7, Dustin O’Halloran’s personal histories give us some clue to the thickly-woven tapestries of his music: he has lived in LA (where he studied art at Santa Monica College and formed the much-adored Devics with Sara Lov), Italy (in the depths of rural Emilia Romagna) and Berlin. His arresting, heartbreaking music is as much an elegant exercise in nuance and grace as it is a pure, intuitive, personal expression – and here is where we see some explanation into Dustin’s quiet rise to notoriety and his continued ascension.

Having gained serious recognition with his stunning score to Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette (which sits neatly alongside his soundtrack work for William Olsen’s An American Affair (2010) and Drake Doremus’ Sundance-winning Like Crazy (2011), Dustin has quickly become one of the most recogniseable names in the broad-reaching “post-classical” field, a definition of the genre rather than vice-versa. Now sitting alongside peers and friends Max Richter, Hauschka and Johann Johannsson (who, incidentally, aided Dustin in mixing his newest album) on FatCat’s dedicated orchestral imprint 130701, new album Lumiere is a glowing addition to O’Halloran’s musical canon, at once an amalgamation of everything that his music has been leading up to, and an unprecedented step forwards in terms of timbral palette and harmony. Featuring NYC’s ACME Quartet, Stars Of The Lid’s Adam Wiltzie and prodigious young composer Peter Broderick among the guest musicians, the scale of Lumiere is expansive: “it made me realize how important it is to find players that truly understand what you do and to create a language with them,” writes Dustin.
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  • FrogSoup

    Saw him on Friday. He was the one I had listened to least out of the three performers, but he was REALLY good. Just ordered the 130701 Transcendentalist EP, cannot wait to hear it!

    Wednesday afternoon
  • MinamiRiku

    My god... this...this..genius... fuck! Here perfeckt!

    Sunday evening
  • JavoPeralta

    I love to listen to him while I'm drawing ♥ [2]

    last week
  • lavieplusbelle

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  • lavieplusbelle

    AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW...I LOVED!

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  • SANLEGAS

    Dustin usted es todo un genio mis respetos como musico es increíble.

    13 days ago
  • uterina

    Náis!

    20 days ago
  • foureyedjim

    dang, i haven't listened to this guy in a while. I loved him in devics and I'm loving the new album (I know, I'm totally late)

    last month
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21 May 2012 | from www.dustinohalloran.com

Last show of The Transcedentalist tour tomorrow night in Paris @ Cafe De La Danse. Triple bill featuring Dustin O’Halloran , Hauschka and Johann Johannsson..come crack the champagne with us! …

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