The first LP by Derek Baron relocates Erik Satie’s piano compositions to a flatshare in Brooklyn, New York. Crooked Dances comprises six tracks, where Satie’s Danses Gothiques (1893) and other keyboard sketches are interspersed/interrupted by conversation, drones both accidental and deliberate, and the ever changing mise-en-scène of rooms opening out onto further hidden rooms. This guerrilla field recording is a multilayered meditation on the housing pressures of megacities, on private versus public space, Satie’s early ideas of ambient music, and the soothing qualities of his compositions.

Baron’s Palmillas was released in 2015 by Canada’s Power Moves label, and Crooked Dances is released by Penultimate Press.