Visionary pianist Matthew Shipp refines his solo piano language to its purest essence on The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp, out Sept. 15, 2023, on Mahakala Music “I believe a pianist's intrinsic nature comes out in the solo idiom,” asserts Matthew Shipp. If that is the case, then the solo work of an artist as singular and visionary as Shipp must be viewed as creation in its purest form. With his remarkable new album The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp the acclaimed pianist offers his most stunningly distilled statement to date, a compelling, intensely focused set of breathtaking improvisations that fastidiously refine Shipp’s prismatic language.