Prayer Times

Prayer for What Remains is pianist/composer, Leslie Pintchik’s eighth album. In a personal note that follows the liner notes of her new album, Pintchik writes that the title track “was inspired by a photo taken by the war photographer Joseph Eid. In it, a man smoking a pipe in Aleppo, Syria sits in his bombed-out bedroom, listening to music on a manual gramophone that operates without electricity. A tragic image of war, yes, but one that Eid said ‘talks about life’ as well.” When she listened in the studio to the playback of “Prayer for What Remains”, Pintchik says she was especially moved by the performance of the musicians who played “so true to the tune’s emotional core.”