Scott Gagner: Underwater Waltz

Multi-instrumentalist and singer Scott Gagner kept mom on his new album Underwater Waltz, a collection of tender instrumentals. Inspired by a family's wish to watch the solar eclipse he did some serious thinking about capturing the event with music, with his 1930’s Lester upright piano as the focal point of the compositions. A string quartet was added, plus Zach Reeves riding shotgun on various keyboards.

Gagner found that was he lost for words to capture the beauty of nature and opted for an ambient approach instead, making Underwater Waltz an outlier in ...