Sebastian Plano
Shares the Latest Single
From His Save Me Not LP

Building on his classical background and the boundless peaks and valleys of last fall’s sprawling & LP — a collaboration with fellow cellist Maarten Vos — Save Me Not finds Sebastian Plano in top form as a solo performer. Using nothing but his voice, piano, and cello, no less, with electronic loops kept to the bare minimum of a nearly decade-old melody from a San Francisco session that never quite left Plano’s mind.

“I came from conservatories,” he explains, “playing chamber music, orchestra music, all the time, for probably more than 15 years. Now I can bring all of that knowledge into my music, and I can do it alone: I’m the string quartet, I’m the orchestra, I conduct the piece.

He continues, “I don’t like to depend on anyone, and Save Me Not best defines who I am: as a musician, as a creative spirit, and as a person. I just want to be free — as free as possible.”

This is especially apparent on the album’s “Souls” suite, a story divided into three distinct songs — the first part of which is revealed below, along with the album’s lead single and a little more commentary from the Argentinian composer…..

The ‘Soul’ trilogy is an introspective journey of the immaterial characteristics of individuals. The three-part story can be understood as a personal depiction and view on three states of a soul — contemplative, exuberant and playful.

Part I, titled ‘Avow,’ is a frank introspective journey through my soul. While working on this track, I was asking myself, ‘How would it sound if a soul could sing?’ I was then experimenting and processing the cello in various ways leading to the opening cello of the track which represents a soul-singing chant. This was achieved by editing normal and reversed cello recordings together and really focusing on the nuances in the sound, as if the cello would be saying words.