Aaron Choulai

Aaron Choulai Trio: Ranu

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 20, 2009

It is almost as if just because he does not see like most folks that Papua, New Guinea-born pianist, Aaron Choulai has a heightened sense of hearing, which is so unlike anyone else's sense of hearing. All sound, to Choulai appears to resemble a sort of patchwork quilt with random, vividly colored aural swatches and swathes, at once dissonant and symmetrical, seemingly disparate textures colliding and creating new structures as his fingers touch and feel the white hot and ebony ...