ARIA-nominated Australian pianist/composer Nat Bartsch releases Evolution, Resolution - the first single release from her album Forever Changed: a suite of neoclassical lullabies that explore the neurodivergent sensory experience of music.

Recorded at home with her 7yo son sleeping down the hall, the album celebrates Nat’s discovery of her autistic/ADHD identity in her late 30’s, and reflects upon the enormous changes that have occurred in her life since: divorce, new love and a new family.

This meditative solo piano piece is on the theme of patience during this enormous change. It is in a similar vein to Nat's beloved original lullabies, heard on the 2017 album Forever, and No Time At All. But there is also a little more gravitas to the music, hinting at Nat's growth as an individual and artist since she first became a mother.

Forever Changed is released in full on 15 November.

Track listing

1. Evolution, Resolution (3:50)

Nat Bartsch – piano, ambient electronics

Recorded at Sylvan St Studios, April to August 2024
Produced by Nat Bartsch and Hadyn Buxton
Recording, mix and atmos engineering by Hadyn Buxton Mastered by Lachlan Carrick
Cover art by Luci Everett
Composed (and improvised) by Nat Bartsch (c) 2024

digital streaming release on amica via IDOL

"Her beautiful piano playing shimmers with a joyfulness that she also conveys in person." Limelight

"You know how you sometimes hear a composer's work and wonder 'where have they been all my life?' Nat Bartsch is one of those people for me." Jeremy Fernandez, ABC